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Awards & Book News

Winners of the PEN America Literary Awards are announced; Publishers Weekly has coverage.

André Alexis’s Other Worlds: Stories (FSG Originals) wins the Story Prize; LitHub reports.

The Guardian has writers and readers share the books they enjoyed in March.

Globe Pequot has acquired the crafts-focused Linden Publishing, Publishers Weekly reports.

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

The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez (Forever; LJ starred review) encounters No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Daughter of Egypt by Marie Benedict (St. Martin’s) uncovers No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent (Bloom) tracks down No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Beneath by Ariel Sullivan (Ballantine) rises to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 7; Steel Ball Run, Vol. 6 by Hirohiko Araki (VIZ Media) makes its way to No. 11 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire; LJ starred review) hunts down No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Stand by Cory Booker (St. Martin’s) stands at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes To Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny by Sue Morter (Hay House) unlocks No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America by Andrew McCarthy (Grand Central) meets No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Peaceful Sleeper: An Intuitive Approach to Baby Sleep by Chrissy Lawler (Jossey-Bass) approaches No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Landon: A Memoir by Landon Donovan (Page Two) scores No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Cheers to Monday: The Surprisingly Simple Method To Lead and Live with Less Stress and More Joy by Amy Leneker (Wiley) finds No. 13 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Bosses of the Bronx: The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner by Mike Vaccaro (Harper) rounds the bases at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

The Guardian reviews The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley (NYRB): “Like a Saharan dust storm, Gwendoline Riley’s work recasts our relationship with the familiar, transforming ordinary, unremarkable lives of her characters into something startling and new. Her female protagonists, often writers themselves, struggle with bad relationships”; and Under Water by Tara Menon (Riverhead): “Loss, love, environmental fragility, female friendship: I was ready to plunge into the waves of this novel, to swim with its currents of grief and longing. But while I found myself at times drawn in to the narrative, at others I was distanced by Menon’s style, which is deliberately fragmented but also disappointingly uneven.”

LitHub has “Five Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub has a profile of Álvaro Enrigue, author of Now I Surrender, tr. by Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead).

Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary (Grove), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

LitHub interviews Colm Tóibín, author of The News from Dublin: Stories (Scribner).

LA Times suggests 10 books to read in April.

LitHub selects the 13 best book covers of March, offers seven poetry books to read for National Poetry Month, and rounds up April’s best sci-fi and fantasy books.

LitHub looks at the routines of so-called super readers.

NYT reports on “The Literary King of Tulsa” and his work creating a hot spot for author visits.  

Authors on Air

Kirkus’s Fully Booked podcast talks to Jenny Lawson, author of How To Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself (Penguin Life; LJ starred review).

Today, GMA hosts Sheldon Simeon, author of Ohana Style: Food from Hawai‘i, for Your Family (Clarkson Potter); Christina Geist, author of Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons from Home (Andrews McMeel), visits the Today show; and Arsenio Hall, author of Arsenio: A Memoir (Atria; LJ starred review), goes on The View.

PBS NewsHour interviews Gisèle Pelicot, author of A Hymn to Life: Shame Has To Change Sides (Penguin Pr.).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2 at the Tucson Festival of Books.

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