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Awards & Book News

Winners are announced for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, for “literature that contributes to our understanding of race and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures”; LitHub has coverage. Nell Irvin Painter wins a lifetime achievement award.

Recipients of the Whiting Award for Emerging Writers are announced, LitHub reports. NPR also has coverage.

LA Times looks at the Gen Z and millennial readers reimagining Los Angeles’s book clubs.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books | The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction and Nonfiction

Fiction

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) grabs No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Revenge Prey by John Sandford (Putnam) swoops to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Bloodsinger by Juliette Cross (Bramble) reaches No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Twisted Pawn (Deluxe Edition) by L. J. Shen (Bloom) sweeps No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos by Seanan McGuire (Random House Worlds) reaches No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (Harper; LJ starred review) ends at No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

American Fantasy by Emma Straub (Riverhead) conjures up No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

The Wicked Sea by Jordan Stephanie Gray (Requited) crests at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie (Ballantine) shoots to No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday) takes No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi & hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (Norton; LJ starred review) holds No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple (One World) gets No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Rory: The Heartache and Triumph of Golf’s Most Human Superstar by Alan Shipnuck (Avid Reader) sinks No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance by Joey Santore (Cool Springs) blooms at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Homesick Nomad: Settling into an Untethered Life by Brianna Madia (HarperOne) travels to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage (S&S) drives to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

18 Days in Heaven: I Left My Body. I Met Jesus. What He Told Me Will Alter Your Eternity by Gabe Poirot (Harrison House) attains No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Thank You, Teachers: True Stories from America’s Teachers, Our Last Line of Defense and Our First Line of Hope by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney (Little, Brown) has No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War by Adriana E. Ramírez (Scribner): “This is a story of betrayal worthy of Elena Ferrante, and as Ramírez tells it, she deftly shows us her grandmother’s rage and her resolve…. As a stylist, Ramírez is less sure, alternating between the sort of serviceable prose that keeps a narrative moving but can fall flat, and wispy metaphors and poetic musings. Yet it is hard not to be moved by her commitment to confront this definitive but deeply repressed period”; Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein (Doubleday): “Although medieval history serves as a fitting backdrop for Jean’s asceticism, the many extended scenes of church visits and petty arguments between students about ecclesiastical architecture can become tedious. And the novel drags a bit when Saint Monica disappears for 50 or so pages, giving way to historiographical arguments in medieval studies. But still, Langbein’s laugh-out-loud prose, richly drawn characters and painfully real renderings of the fumbling social world of young adulthood keep you in the story, which is as full of whimsy as it is of heartbreak”; and two “delicious” food memoirs with “two very different menus”: Extra Sauce: The Good, the Bad, and the Onions by Zahra Tangorra (The Dial Pr.) and On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites by Alicia Kennedy (Balance).

The Guardian reviews The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence by Louise Brangan (S&S): “At the close of her book, a superb if horrifying testament, Brangan quotes one of the survivors, Carmel, speaking of the legacy left by her time in the laundries: ‘There’s always something in my life that will remind me of my past life and that’s where I will never get closure, never will. I’ve moved on, yes, I’ve moved on a bit. But I’ll never heal.’”

LitHub gathers “the book reviews you need to read this week.”

Briefly Noted

USA Today talks to Amanda McCracken, author of When Longing Becomes Your Lover: Breaking from Infatuation, Rejection, and Perfectionism to Find Authentic Love; A True Story of Overcoming Limerence (Worthy).

LA Times profiles S. A. Cosby, author of King of Ashes (Flatiron; LJ starred review).

Arthur Sze, author of Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (Copper Canyon), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Chris Hadfield, author of Final Orbit (Little, Brown; LJ starred review).

USA Today has a video interview with Jennie Garth, author of I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose & Embracing Reinvention (Park Row).

Tomorrow, the Drew Barrymore Show will host Lena Dunham, author of Famesick: A Memoir (Random).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

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