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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes are announced, including novelists Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Gwendoline Riley, poets Joyelle McSweeney and Karen Solie, and nonfiction authors Kei Miller and Lucy Sante. The Guardian has coverage.

Winners of the American Booksellers Association’s Indies Choice Book Awards are announced; Shelf Awareness reports.

The pseudonymous Freida McFadden, author of “The Housemaid” series, reveals her identity to USA Today.

The Trump administration has withdrawn its appeal of a federal court ruling that protected IMLS from being dismantled, Publishers Weekly reports.

LA Times has a package on book clubs, including 101 curated book club picks, why Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the ultimate book club read, a column from former book club skeptic Roxane Gay, and an essay from book club facilitator Amy Silverberg: “Why Rich Women Pay Me To Tell Them What To Read.”

LJ offers its 2026 graphic novels preview and graphic novel sure bets, plus interviews with graphic novelists Tillie Walden and January Sun and comics shop owner Patrick Brower.

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

Starside by Alex Aster (Avon) shoots to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Game On by Navessa Allen (Slowburn) wins No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Keeper by Tana French (Viking; LJ starred review) grabs No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Upward Bound by Woody Brown (Hogarth) rises to No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Rain of Shadows and Endings by Melissa K. Roehrich (Kensington) storms to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews (Tor; LJ starred review) makes it to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 15 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

Phases: A Memoir by Brandy with Gerrick Kennedy (Hanover Square) shifts to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby (Penguin Pr.) seeks No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness by Arthur C. Brooks (Portfolio) finds No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Arsenio: A Memoir by Arsenio Hall (Atria: Black Privilege; LJ starred review) gets No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Your Retirement Sketchbook: 125 Retirement Planning Lessons from Financial Experts by Jamie P. Hopkins & Bonnie Treichel (Harriman House) reaches No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by A. M. Gittlitz (Astra House) hits a home run at No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Open to Work: How To Get Ahead in the Age of AI by Aneesh Raman & Ryan Roslansky (Harper Business) races to No. 11 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

How To Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself by Jenny Lawson (Penguin Life; LJ starred review) attains No. 12 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard (Knopf) grows to No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

LA Times reviews In the Fields of Fatherless Children by Pamela Steele (Counterpoint): “In the Fields of Fatherless Children…is neither about nor set in the Vietnam War. This taut, lyrical book is about the poverty, racism, environmental degradation, and despair suffered in an Appalachian ‘holler’ during the Vietnam era, when the war is devouring the community’s young men and climate change is debasing the landscape and its residents’ way of life. The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.”

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

Briefly Noted

USA Today talks to legendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker, author of Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life (Crown).

LitHub interviews Caro Claire Burke, author of Yesteryear (Knopf), as well as Emma Straub, author of American Fantasy (Riverhead).

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Night Owl: Poems (Ecco), shares her “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub, as does Anne Enright, author of Attention (Norton).

NYT reports on “The Hit Erotica Writers Outwitting Nigeria’s Religious Censors.”

The Guardian shares where to start with the works of Muriel Spark.

In NYT, James S. A. Corey, author of The Faith of Beasts (Orbit), recommends alien sci-fi novels.

LA Times helps readers pick their next Thomas Pynchon book.

NYT suggests reads for those who love TV’s The Pitt.

NPR highlights 11 April books that “offer a chance to step inside someone else’s world.”

Reactor rounds up all the new horror and romantasy novels coming in April.

For National Poetry Month, LJ offers sure bets and a display shelf.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air speaks with Annabelle Gurwitch, author of The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker (Zibby). Today, Fresh Air will interview Mary Fariba Afsari, author of Labor: One Woman’s Work (Avid Reader).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast interviews Kathryn Paige Harden, author of Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness (Random).

NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin talks to actor and novelist Tim Blake Nelson, author of Superhero (The Unnamed Pr.).

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower will be adapted as a movie by Warner Bros., Reactor reports.

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

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