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Nov. 12, 2024 12:22 PM EST

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. In Too Deep by Andrew Child & Lee Child (Random House Publishing Group) 2. The Waiting by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 3. All the Broken Places by John Boyne (Penguin Publishing Group) ...

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Nov. 12, 2024 12:06 PM EST

Nonfiction 1. Revenge of the Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell, narrated by the author (Little, Brown & Company) 2. Atomic Habitsby James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance, narrated by the author...

Percival Everett's 'James' is a finalist for Carnegie Medal for fiction

Nov. 12, 2024 11:08 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett's reworking of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, $5,000 honors for fiction and nonfiction presented by the...

Book Review: Richard Price returns with another portrait of urban America, ‘Lazarus Man'

Nov. 11, 2024 14:22 PM EST

Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hart to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life,” and “Freedomland,” fans can now add “Lazarus Man.” The story...

Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion

Nov. 11, 2024 14:09 PM EST

An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan Didion. The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Few...

Book Review: 'Those Opulent Days' is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina

Nov. 11, 2024 10:42 AM EST

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel would be a whodunit murder mystery. “Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of...

Children's book by chef Jamie Oliver is withdrawn after criticism from Indigenous Australians

Nov. 10, 2024 19:28 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — A children's book written by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been withdrawn from sale after it was criticized for causing offense to Indigenous Australians. The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

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Nov. 07, 2024 13:41 PM EST

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Grey Wolf" by Louise Penny (Minotaur) 2. “Throne of Secrets" by Kerri Maniscalco (Little, Brown) 3. “In Too Deep” by Child/Child (Delacorte) 4. “Counting Miracles” by Nicholas Sparks (Random House) ...

Algeria opens book fair opens without winner of top French language literary prize

Nov. 06, 2024 05:52 AM EST

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — As one of the Arab world’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence. French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, who won France’s most prestigious literary award earlier this week, was not invited to this year’s event. ...

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Nov. 05, 2024 11:59 AM EST

Nonfiction 1. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, narrated by the author (Little, Brown & Company) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. War by Bob Woodward, narrated by Robert Petkoff (Simon &...