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Awards & Book News

The six-book shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is announced; The Guardian has coverage.

Ghost Driver by Nell Osborne (Moist Bks.) and Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca Gransden (Tangerine Pr.) win Britain’s Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize, The Bookseller reports.

Partridge Boswell wins the UK’s National Poetry Competition, The Guardian reports.

Gloria Steinem will publish a memoir, An Unexpected Life, due out from Random House on September 22; People has coverage. Vanity Fair talks to Steinem about the book.

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

Bloodlust by Sandra Brown (Grand Central; LJ starred review) thirsts for No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Innamorata by Ava Reid (Del Rey) ensnares No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Love Song (Deluxe Edition) by Elle Kennedy (Bloom) sings at No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent (Bramble) rises to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Ibram X. Kendi (One World) makes its way to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short by Glen Galaich (Wiley) lands at No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary by Jan Jekielek (Skyhorse) gets No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Mobilize: How To Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III by Shyam Sankar & Madeline Hart (Bombardier) reaches No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History by Mark Peterson (Princeton Univ.): “Peterson is adept at complicating familiar stories from early American history. His magisterial The City-State of Boston argues that the formation of the United States was terrible for Bostonians, because it yoked a once thriving merchant economy to tyrannical Southern slave interests. In The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution, he shifts his attention away from the Massachusetts Bay Puritans to other unexpected tragedies of the country’s birth.”

The Guardian reviews Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh (Avid Reader; LJ starred review): “There’s much to admire here. I enjoyed Mackintosh’s willingness to centre two unlikable characters behaving carelessly. The timeslips are fun and the allegory is inventive and convincing. I just wanted prose that takes and gives more sensually in a novel whose engine, in theory, is pleasure and play”; and Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff (Harper): “The biographical chapters are well-sourced and appropriately fleet-footed (the authors are keen to remind us that this is not a biography), tracing Muskism’s roots to his grandfather Joshua Haldeman, a Canadian devotee of the Technocracy movement who emigrated to apartheid South Africa in 1950. Slobodian and Tarnoff tease out the continuities between Musk’s youth in Pretoria and the convictions he later developed: the faith in engineering as a mode of governance, the fortress mentality, the conflation of racial purity with civilisational survival. Apartheid South Africa, they argue convincingly, was the nursery of Muskism.”

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

Briefly Noted

USA Today interviews Arsenio Hall, author of Arsenio: A Memoir (Atria; LJ starred review).

In NYT, Wil Wheaton talks about narrating a new audiobook edition of Stephen King’s The Body (S&S Audio) 40 years after starring in the movie adaptation, Stand By Me.

Publishers Weekly speaks with superhero comics writer Brian Michael Bendis about returning to Marvel and his comic book series “Powers.”

LA Times explores the literary history of Los Angeles’s soon-to-be-demolished Taix restaurant.

In NYT, Elizabeth Arnott, author of The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives (Berkley), recommends “thrilling tales of domestic vengeance and feminine power.”

LitHub gathers “six retellings that pull apart fairy tales and stitch them back together in new and wondrous ways” and “three recommendations about road trips that get out of hand.”

Journalist and nonfiction author Tracy Kidder has died at age 80; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Ellie Roscher, coauthor with Anna Baeth of Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports (The New Pr.).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will interview Katrina Manson, author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare (Norton).

Tomorrow, GMA will host Radha Lin Chaddah, author of And the Ancestors Sing (Rising Action).

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

BBC is creating a three-part series about the life of Charles Dickens, LitHub reports.

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