Hello, booklovers! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we are celebrating it with some excellent book news. All the “best of 2022” book lists are making an appearance, we have some books to look forward to in 2023, and even a bit of gossip. So, get ready for another exciting issue of The Pulse.
- The most wonderful (and stressful) time of year is back: Goodreads Choice Awards season! As part of our annual tradition, two BookTrib editors predict the winners. Let’s see how successful we are this year!
- In Louise Penny’s new mystery, World of Curiosities (Minotaur), the past and present of Québec Sûreté Chief Inspector Armand Gamache collide in the idyllic village of Three Pines. But this time, in its most deadly form possible. Soon to Be a Prime Original Series!
- Write Christmas (Vesuvian Books) by Thommy Hutson is a wonderful, heart-warming holiday novel that’s both intricate and well-written.
It’s that time of year again, where the best book lists are being released. The New York Times unveiled its list of the 10 best books of 2022 recently, and we love the picks! With titles by Hernan Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Ed Yong, Claire-Louise Bennett, Barbara Kingsolver, Namwali Serpell, Linda Villarosa, Fintan O’Toole, Rachel Aviv, and Hua Hsu making the cut.
Bill Gates recently shared his annual list of holiday reading recommendations, which include Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Inner Game of Tennis by Robert Gallwey, Mendeleyev’s Dream by Paul Strathern, and Surrender by Bono.
For our audiophiles: The audiobook company Libro.fm has revealed its top 10 bestselling books of 2022! The titles are I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Book Lovers by Emily Henry, Nona the Ninth by Tamsin Muir, Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry, Thank you for Listening by Julia Whelan, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Maid by Nita Prose, Michael Schur’s How To Be Perfect, and Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark.
Filmmaker Daniel Kwan is branching out with the release of two new children’s books, titled I’ll Get to the Bottom of This! and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will tell the story of his life and career in a new memoir, titled The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival, next year with Broadside Books.
Deadline reported that Hayley Krischer’s The Falling Girls is headed to the small screen. What’s more, the series will be written by Chloe Stearns (Struggling Servers) and John Wynn (the podcast Last Known Position). In other books-to-screen news, Variety reported that John Katzenbach’s Just Cause is also headed to the small screen with Scarlett Johansson set to lead the cast!
This week, we also have some books-to-stage news! The Guardian reported that James Norton will star in a London stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. Prepare to be emotionally destroyed …
It’s always such a pleasure reporting award news. This week, Jacinda Townsend has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her novel Mother Country. Henry Gee was also honored when he won the Royal Society Science Book Prize for A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters. Congratulations for these wonderful achievements!
