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Awards & Book News

Shortlists are released for the Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing.

Finalists are selected for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Finalists are out for the Heartland Booksellers Awards, sponsored by the Great Lakes and Midwest Independent Booksellers Associations.

The shortlists for Australia’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are announced.

The Department of Education tables a regulation that would have hampered Inclusive Access/Equitable Access programs that help college students get course materials. Publishers Weekly has the news.

Science fiction author M.J. Engh has died at age 91; Locus has an obituary.

Susan Wojcicki, a key player in convincing publishers to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, has died at age 56; Publishers Weekly has an obituary.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Entangled: Red Tower) climbs to No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Coven by Harper L. Woods (Bramble) enchants No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Shadow of Doubt by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler) grabs No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Pairing: Special 1st Edition by Casey McQuiston (St. Martin’s Griffin; LJ starred review) matches up with No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey (Orbit; LJ starred review) commands No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Spy x Family, Vol. 12 by Tatsuya Endo (VIZ Media) hits No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi (S. & S.) ascends to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch with Janie Nitze (Harper) rules over No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss (Viking) gets No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen by Robert Jobson (Pegasus) reigns over No. 15 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some booksellers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon): “What is real, what is imagined, what is performed: In Hamya’s confident hands, it all becomes productively confused.”

NYT reviews Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans (Penguin Pr.): “The availability of new documents, as well as the ‘emergence in our own time of a class of unscrupulous populist politicians,’ prompted Evans to revisit a history he already knew well. The result is a fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context.”

The Guardian reviews Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael by Joy Williams (Tin House): “I want to say that if you banged a [Marilynne] Robinson novel off one by Cormac McCarthy, the sparks that flew would be something like Williams, except that neither of those writers does funny and Williams is the kind of funny you can’t explain.”

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

Briefly Noted

Yoko Ogawa, author of Mina’s Matchbox, tr. by Stephen B. Snyder (Pantheon; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Bill Schutt, author of Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans (Algonquin), shares his “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

NYT gathers six audiobooks to contextualize the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

In LitHub, Snowden Wright explores the short stories of the late Brad Watson.

CrimeReads examines “the trope of the ‘crazy’ female protagonist” and “mothers in horror and the horror they represent.”

Kirkus suggests fall fiction with which to take a break from election news.

Carley Fortune announces her forthcoming novel One Golden Summer, a sequel to Every Summer After; it’s due out from Berkley in May 2025; People has the news.

Entertainment Weekly shares the cover and an excerpt from Maxym M. Martineau’s gothic romantasy House of Blight, due out from Harper Voyager in April 2025.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will publish Antisemitism in America: A Warning, due out from Grand Central in February 2025, Kirkus reports.

The late Henry Kissinger’s final book, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, written with Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, is due out from Little, Brown in November 2024; Kirkus has the news.

In LitHub, Maris Kreizman previews this fall’s crop of fiction.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to Casey Michel, author of Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World (St. Martin’s).

Francine Prose, author of 1974: A Personal History (Harper; LJ starred review), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Tor and LitHub’s Voyage into Genre podcast interviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa, author of Lost Ark Dreaming (Tor.com; LJ starred review), and Brenda Peynado, author of Time’s Agent (Tor.com; LJ starred review).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2, featuring Nancy Pelosi talking about her bestselling book, The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House (S. & S.).

There is a series adaptation in the works for British novelist Tom Wood’s “Victor the Assassin” thriller series, Deadline reports.

There may be an adaptation on deck for Ted Chiang’s Hugo-winning novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects; Reactor has the news.

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