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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Indiana Author Awards are announced, including Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch (Knopf; LJ starred review), Rebecca McKanna’s Don’t Forget the Girl (Sourcebooks Landmark), Brittany Means’s Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways (Zibby), Edward Fujawa’s Vanished Indianapolis (The History Pr.), and George Kalamaras’s To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me (Dos Madres).

The Bookseller reports on censorship in UK school libraries.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Evil Eye Concepts) smolders at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Grand Central) captures No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Joy by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) celebrates No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman (Little, Brown) flies to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid (Del Rey: Ballantine) grabs No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle To Preserve Democracy by Brian Tyler Cohen (Harper) holds on to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler (S. & S.) takes No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver (Penguin Pr.) balances at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack (Dutton) commands No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

A Crown That Lasts: You Are Not Your Label by Demi-Leigh Tebow (Thomas Nelson) gets No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen (Mariner) has No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

What To Cook When You Don’t Feel like Cooking by Caroline Chambers (Union Square & Co.; LJ starred review) serves up No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1 by Will Buxton (Ten Speed) races to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough by Ian Frazier (Farrar): “Read the opening chapter of Paradise Bronx and I think it’s a good bet that, like a car stuck on the Major Deegan Expressway, you’ll stay put for hours, except voluntarily. Frazier’s signature voice—droll, ruminative, generous—draws readers in.”

The Guardian reviews Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler (Penguin Pr.): “Hessler’s compassionate depictions of this conflict between a Communist party seeking to expand its control and an increasingly educated and inquisitive generation have won his writing a band of devotees both inside and outside the country”; and The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar, tr. by Frank Wynne (HarperVia): “A tight, tidy foray into literature was never to be expected from the 74-year-old, whose utterly singular cinema thrives on chaotic melodrama and billowing, sensual abandon. If The Last Dream’s unruliness comes as no surprise—it’s a mixed bag both in its form and its rewards—its occasional crystalline terseness very much does.”

LitHub selects “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

The New York Times Magazine discusses Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Farrar).

Danez Smith, author of Bluff: Poems (Graywolf; LJ starred review), shares their “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

Amanda Jones, author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

CrimeReads interviews William Kent Krueger, author of Spirit Crossing (Atria).

Washington Post talks to Carole Hopson, the commercial pilot and author of the historical novel A Pair of Wings (Holt).

Kailee Pedersen, author of Sacrificial Animals (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review), explores “the difficult women of East Asian literature,” in CrimeReads.

The Guardian gathers five of the best books about yearning.

Reactor suggests “Five Thorny Retellings That Offer a Twist on ‘Beauty and the Beast.’”

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks about the ethics of biography with Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (Univ. of California), and Kelly McMasters, author of The Leaving Season: A Memoir (Norton).

Poet m. nourbeSe philip talks to LitHub’s Windham-Campbell Prizes podcast about Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry collection Born To Slow Horses (Wesleyan Univ.).

Today’s NPR's Here & Now will speak with Nate Silver, author of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything (Penguin Pr.).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2, featuring live coverage of the National Book Festival.

Universal is developing a TV adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s novel Dungeon Crawler Carl (Ace), Deadline reports.

Universal TV is adapting Kimberly Belle’s thriller The Paris Widow (Park Row) as a series; Deadline has the news.

A modern series based on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is in the works at Netflix, Deadline reports.

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