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The National Book Awards 2022

The winners of the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 16th at the 73rd National Book Awards Ceremony. Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. Tracie D. Hall, the Executive Director of the American Library Association, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Art Spiegelman, who is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, MAUS, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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Interview: Matt Coyle, author of Doomed Legacy: A Rick Cahill Novel

Nov 17, 2022

It’s May 2023 in San Diego. Private investigator Rick Cahill has reached a pinnacle. He married Leah, and their daughter, 14-month-old Krista, is the center of his universe. He still hasn’t told Leah about his CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and its debilitating effects. He has developed skills performing corporate background verifications by computer --- a desk jockey. His main corporate contact runs afoul of sinister characters. Her homicide draws Rick back into traditional investigative mode, with the help of PI pal Moira MacFarlane. In this interview, Matt Coyle chats with Bookreporter.com’s Dean Murphy about what inspired the plot of DOOMED LEGACY, his next novel, and Rick’s complicated friendship with Moira.

November 17, 2022

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Friday, November 18th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng, a Reese's Book Club pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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November 16, 2022

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Thursday, November 17th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT by Debbie Macomber, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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November 15, 2022

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of November 14th and November 21st that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our 24-hour Holiday Cheer contests, which launched today and are taking place on select days this month and next. Enter for your chance to win books that are perfect for holiday giving and that you may want to include on your "to me/from me" list. Our first three prize books this week are THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT by Debbie Macomber, OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng, and A QUILT FOR CHRISTMAS by Melody Carlson.

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November 15, 2022

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, November 16th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A QUILT FOR CHRISTMAS: A Christmas Novella by Melody Carlson, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Special Preview: Bookreporter.com's Holiday Cheer 2022

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL PREVIEW Newsletter brings you a sneak peek at the titles that are included in our Holiday Cheer feature. 

Each title below will be featured in a contest where you will have a 24-hour window of opportunity to enter for your chance to win a copy of the book being spotlighted that day. You will need to act quickly! Learn more about the feature here.

Each of these books is a great holiday reading selection, for yourself or to give others! We encourage you to scroll down and click on each image to read more about that book on our site. Please note that we may be adding more books to the feature in the days to come.

If you have friends who you think may be interested in these 24-hour contests, please forward this newsletter to them so they can sign up for it. 

Our first feature and contest kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15th at noon ET. Best of luck to you, and Happy Holidays!

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Haruki Murakami, author of Novelist as a Vocation

In NOVELIST AS A VOCATION, the internationally bestselling author and famously private writer Haruki Murakami shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists and musicians. Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game, when he suddenly knew he could write a novel; the importance of memory, what he calls a writer’s “mental chest of drawers”; the necessity of loneliness, patience and his daily running routine; and the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career.

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Katy Hays, author of The Cloisters

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.

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Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last Party

On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he's generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors. But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year's Day, Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbors, friends and family --- and Ffion has her own secrets to protect. With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn't who wanted Rhys dead…but who finally killed him.

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