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Awards & Publishing Industry News

The 2022 Ondaatje Prize shortlist is announced.

The 2022 Wolfson History Prize shortlist is announced.

NPR reports on the Russian invasion’s impact on Ukraine's publishing industry. 

Comic book creators are collaborating on the anthology Sunflower Seed to benefit the Ukraine relief effort, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Lit Hub discusses “how the book industry turns its own racism into a marketable product.”

Vintage Earth is coming out with an eco-themed series of reprinted books with new covers. The Bookseller reports.

NYT covers the 2022 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. 

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

The Investigator by John Sandford (Putnam; LJ starred review) uncovers No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose by Dav Pilkey (Graphix) debuts at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Sacred Bridge by Anne Hillerman (Harper) climbs to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Watch Her Disappear by Lisa Regan (Bookouture) arrives at No. 15 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder (S. & S.) cracks No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon, written with Sean Wilsey (Ecco) greets No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron (Little, Brown & Co.; LJ starred review) arrives at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness (HarperOne) shines at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton (Morrow) beams up to No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Growing Up Biden by Valerie Biden Owens (Celadon) reaches No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe (Biblioasis): “living up to its author’s reputation, is daring, studded with brilliance, raucous and exhausting. It might overstay its welcome, but you’ll remember its visit.” Also, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan (Random): “Kaplan offers the reader a diverse collection of observations, ruminations, narrations and occasional incriminations clustered around a travelogue through cities on or near the eponymous sea.” Plus, a shortlist of memoir reviews including: Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Pr.: S.& S.), The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy (Harper), and Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses by Sarah Fay (HarperOne). And, short reviews of recently released audiobooks featuring: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (Morrow) and Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi (Dey Street Books).

The Washington Post reviews The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe (Harper Voyager; LJ starred review): “a reminder for those who’ve ever been told they don’t fit in that there’s a world beyond this harsh one and a set of tools that can help them get there.” Also, The Red Zone: A Love Story by Chloe Caldwell (Soft Skull): “Here, our heroine is on a different journey: to establish a peace accord with her own period, whose cyclical hormonal fluctuations wreak havoc on her body and relationships.” Plus, Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough (Morrow): “a nimble suspense story, but it’s even more disturbing as an account of how a restless brain can weaken and lethally doubt itself.” Also, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal (Norton): “a valuable collection of amusing, heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking anecdotes about our animal cousins.” And, a few short reviews of mystery novels including Fierce Poison by Will Thomas (Minotaur: St. Martin’s).

The Los Angeles Times reviews The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips (Norton; LJ starred review): “not just a cultural history; it is a testament to endurance and devotion. The entwined work of mothering and creativity is a volatile but illuminating gift.”

Locus Magazine reviews Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom): “what had begun as a lyrical bildungsroman drenched in the natural world has somehow turned into a fast-moving, violent suspense tale with stakes that are at once epic and personal.” Also, The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller (Tor: Macmillan): “a brilliant, cautionary tale about the dangers of repressing trauma, disguised as a sweeping fantasy about political machinations and magic.”

Lit Hub has “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Viola Davis, Finding Me (HarperOne), answers the NYT's By the Book Questionnaire. 

USA Today explores the bestsellers list highlighting Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon, written with Sean Wilsey (Ecco). 

The New York Times Style Magazine explores The Artist’s Way: 24 Hours in the Creative Life by profiling Louis Erdrich and Samuel R. Delany. 

Reba McEntire will come out with a new book, slated to be released in the fall of 2023, containing “lifestyle tips, recipes, and career stories.” People has more on this announcement. 

Tor.com has an excerpt of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (Tor).

NYT lists the newest design books released.

Entertainment Weekly shares “the best comics to read right now: 4/20 edition.”

Tor.com lists “12 Books About Mermaids, Sirens, and Sea Gods.”

Authors on Air

SJ Sindu, author of Blue-Skinned Gods (Soho Press), discusses the “spiritual-industrial complex” on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast. 

Jordan Kisner interviews N. Scott Momaday, author of Earth Keeper: Reflections on American Land (Harper), about “landscape, Emily Dickinson, and the fellowship that changed his life” on the Thresholds podcast. 

Maeve Higgins, Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them (Penguin), “wants us to take levity (and language) more seriously” as she explains in a conversation on The Maris Review podcast. 

Netflix will adapt Mockingbird by Walter Tevis (Vintage), according to Tor.com.

Rektok Ross’ Ski Weekend (SparkPress) will be adapted by former professional hockey player Miles Koules and his father. Also, Sheila Bridges’ memoir, The Bald Mermaid (Pointed Leaf), has been optioned by Southern Fried Filmworks. Deadline has details.

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