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Award News & June Reads

Sabba Khan has won the 2022 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Color for The Roles We Play.

The 2022 Indie Reader Discovery Award winners are announced.

Dan Breznitz won the 2021 Donner Prize Award for best public policy book by a Canadian for his book, Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World (Oxford Univ. Pr.).

The Millions shares a preview of their “most anticipated” books for the month of June.

CrimeReads has “The Best New Crime Fiction of the Month."

Lit Hub provides “20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.”

USA Today gathers 20 books for summer.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

Nightwork by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) starts at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Clive Cussler's Dark Vector by Graham Brown (Putnam) shines at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Don't Let Me Fall by Kelsie Rae (Independently Published) rises to No. 8 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone (MCD) begins at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Either/Or by Elif Batuman (Penguin Pr.) debuts at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Here's the Deal by Kellyanne Conway (Threshold: S. & S.) strikes No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Swing and a Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me by Paul O’Neill (Grand Central) scores No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone (MCD): “Although Pavone fans may find “Two Nights in Lisbon” quite a stretch, this smart, calculating author remains many notches above others in his field. He is worldly and inviting when it comes to the book’s mostly European settings. His book captures a vacation’s escapism even as its heroine feels walls closing in.” And, Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto by Edafe Okporo (S. & S.): “Asylum is a disquieting account that humanizes a nameless, faceless multitude entangled in an issue with no clear end in sight.”

The Washington Post shares four short reviews of books written by European authors and “two worthy of the Nobel” including: 533 Days: A Book of Days by Cees Nooteboom, trans. by Laura Watkinson (Yale); The White Room by Zoran Živković; and The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Reiner Stach, trans. by Shelley Frisch (Princeton). 

Tor.com reviews Flint and Mirror: A Novel of History of Magic by John Crowley (Tor: Macmillan): “unsparing and challenging. Like John Dee’s cryptic messages from the empyrean, it demands scrutiny and repays attention. These latter days may chill the soul, but Flint and Mirror warmed this reader.”

The Guardian reviews Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (Knopf; LJ starred review): “Restlessly truth-seeking, Nightcrawling marks the dazzling arrival of a young writer with a voice and vision you won’t easily get out of your head.”

Book Marks has "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

Library Reads and LJ share read-alikes for Sparring Partners, by John Grisham (Doubleday), the buzziest book of the week.

Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler (Wednesday: Macmillan), talks about the cover design of their new novel with NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List.

Colton Haynes talks with Entertainment Weekly about how his photo shoot with 'XY Magazine' almost cost him his part in Teen Wolf, plus other details from his memoir, Miss Memory Lane (Atria; LJ starred review).

Holly Black, author of Book of Night (Tor: Macmillan), discusses “embracing the weird” in an interview with Tor.com.

Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk (Henry Holt and Co.), answers the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire.

LA Times discusses the forthcoming graphic novel, If Anything Happens I Love You by Will McCormack and Michael Govier, illus. by Youngran Nho (Andews McMeel Publishing), based on a short animate film about a school shooting.

Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby (One World: Random House), shares her top 5 pride month book recommendations with GMA. At Datebook, Bay Area authors suggest their favorite LGBTQ stories.

Comedian and podcaster Paul Scheer is writing a memoir titled Joyful Recollections of Trauma, according to Deadline. 

NYT celebrates Spider-Man’s 60th birthday with a look back at the comic books.

The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive profile of Chanan Beizer, a first-time comic book writer for his “who’s who of artists” for his work, The Golem of Venice Beach.

Tor.com provides an excerpt of What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire). Also, a cover reveal for Kate Elliot’s The Keeper's Six (Tor: Macmillan). 

CrimeReads lists “Seven Suspenseful Novels in Which Paradise is Not What It Seems,” “7 Cozy Series From the Southeast Coast,” and books that “engage with the tropes of true crime while questioning them.”

Authors on Air

Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers (S. & S.; LJ starred review), talks about the time “when having a baby requires a rewrite” in an interview with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds podcast.

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with David Gelles about "short-term profits and long-term consequences" and his new book, The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy (S. & S.).

NPR’s Morning Edition reports that Michigan prisons are banning Spanish and Swahili dictionaries to prevent inmate organizing.

NPR’s All Things Considered looks back on 50 years of Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Colton Haynes, Miss Memory Lane (Atria; LJ starred review), will be on with Tamron Hall tomorrow, and Emmanuel Acho, Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits (Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book), will be on Ellen.

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