In an interview for Vogue UK, Phoebe Bridgers gave a shout-out to THE SEAPLACE ON FINAL APPROACH by Rebecca Rukeyser when asked what book one should read over the holidays. Doubleday published the book on June 7, 2022.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, THE WHITTIERS, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of December 11, 2022, appearing at #7 on Hardcover Fiction and #8 on Combined Print and E-Book Fiction. Delacorte Press published the book on November 22, 2022.

Rachel Aviv’s STRANGERS TO OURSELVES was selected as one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2022.” They praise it as a “rich and nuanced book,” adding: “[Aviv’s] personal history made her especially attuned to how stories can clarify as well as distort what a person is going through. This isn’t an anti-psychiatry book — Aviv is too aware of the specifics of any situation to succumb to anything so sweeping. What she does is hold space for empathy and uncertainty, exploring a multiplicity of stories instead of jumping at the impulse to explain them away.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.

Namwali Serpell’s THE FURROWS was selected as one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2022.” They praise: “This richly layered book explores the nature of grief, how it can stretch or compress time, reshape memories and make us dream up alternate realities.” Hogarth published the novel on September 27, 2022.

Ed Yong’s AN IMMENSE WORLD was selected as one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2022.” They praise: “Yong certainly gave himself a formidable task with this book — getting humans to step outside their ‘sensory bubble’ and consider how nonhuman animals experience the world…Yong is a terrific storyteller, and there are plenty of surprising animal facts to keep this book moving toward its profound conclusion: The breadth of this immense world should make us recognize how small we really are.” Random House published the book on June 21, 2022.

The Hollywood Reporter announced that the film adaptation of A SPY BY NATURE, the first book in Charles Cumming’s Alec Milius Spy Series, will be directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald and will star NORMAL PEOPLE and AFTERSUN actor Paul Mescal. Macdonald said: “I’ve wanted to make A SPY BY NATURE for many years — and when I met Paul Mescal, with his beguiling mixture of intelligence, skill and youth, I knew I’d found the perfect star…This is a very modern spy story — sexy, dangerous, morally ambivalent — and only an actor of Paul’s talent could pull it off.” St. Martin’s Press originally published the book on July 10, 2007.

It’s been an incredible week of praise and recognition for Ed Yong’ stellar AN IMMENSE WORLD. The book was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Excellence for Nonfiction. The medal winners will be announced at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards event during LibLearnX on January 29 at 4:30pm CT. Meanwhile, AN IMMENSE WORLD has been featured on 2022 best-of lists from TIME (“fascinating fare”), Amazon, Goodreads, and BookPage (“an immersive, page-turning reading experience”). Random House published the book on June 21, 2022.

Namwali Serpell’s THE FURROWS was featured on TIME’s list of “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022.” Annabel Gutterman writes: “In her follow-up to her 2019 debut THE OLD DRIFT, Namwali Serpell unravels a haunting narrative full of mystery. But it’s Serpell’s unsparing depiction of C’s grief that makes THE FURROWS so affecting. As C is forced to relive the most traumatic moment of her life, over and over again, Serpell creates a wrenching portrait of a woman reckoning with loss.” The book was also featured on best-of lists from Kirkus and BookPage, the latter of which praises: “Serpell’s award-winning debut novel, THE OLD DRIFT, was a genre-defying epic about three generations of Zambian families, and her purposely disconcerting follow-up will reinforce readers’ appreciation of her daring experimentation and keen talent.” Hogarth published the novel on September 27, 2022.

Joseph Earl Thomas’ forthcoming memoir SINK is one of Vulture’s most-anticipated reads for this winter. Isle McElroy writes: “Essayist and fiction writer Joseph Early Thomas’s SINK pushes back against the expectations of coming-of-age memoirs. Eschewing the ‘I’ to instead tell the story of Joey in third person, Thomas writes about his family’s flawed attempts to show love and the hardship he faced overcoming his tumultuous childhood — and the community he later found in nerd culture, once he gave up on the urge to fit in. Thomas is a skilled prose stylist, and Sink is loaded with arresting imagery and insights into the eerie space between claustrophobia and freedom unique to childhood.” Grand Central Publishing will publish the memoir on February 21, 2023.

TIME Magazine and BookPage featured Rachel Aviv’s nonfiction debut STRANGERS TO OURSELVES on their respective best-of lists for 2022. Angela Haupt of TIME calls the book “a deeply reported exploration of mental illness…writ[ten] with empathy and nuance,” while BookPage praises it as “stunning.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.