New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Summer Reading

The summer reading season is upon us!  The Wall Street Journal profiles sixteen of the summer's hottest reads and USA Today's interactive 2010 Summer Books Calendar is up.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances by Fred Thompson

Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration by Jeffrey Kaye

To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine by Newt Gingrich

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas

Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider by John Hofmeister

What We're Reading

NPR highlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Audies Awards

The 2010 Audies Award winners have been announced.  The audiobook of Kathryn Stockett's The Help took the prize for Fiction and Ken Burn's The National Parks won for Non-Fiction.

Guess Who's Fifty?

The New York Times highlights some of the summer celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Memoirs Roundup

USA Today profiles four new memoirs about loss.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom: Team Obama's Assault on Tea-Party, Talk Radio Americans by Michael Graham

A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond by Craig Robinson

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini

Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity by S.E. Cupp

Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About It by Richard A. Clarke

Diamond Dagger Award

The Crime Writer's Association awarded the 2010 Diamond Dagger Award to Val McDermid (author website).  The Diamond Dagger is a prestigious award honoring lifetime achievement in the field of crime writing.  Previous winners include Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Ruth Rendall, and Dick Francis.  For a complete list of winners click here.   

Spring Memoirs

Publisher and reader interest in the personal memoir continues to grow strong.  Here are a few of the more interesting memoirs that cropped up this Spring:

Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict by Avis Cardella

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

Whip Smart: A Memoir by Melissa Febos

Lonely: A Memoir by Emily White

Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter

Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden

Backing into Forward: A Memoir by Jules Feiffer

Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the BRCA Gene by Sarah Gabriel

One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir by Paul Guest

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The 10 Laws of Enduring Success by Maria Bartiromo

Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush

Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla Miller

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

Best of May

Check out Amazon's selections for the Best Books of May.

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Spotlight on Nathaniel Philbrick

Prize-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick tackles Lieutenant Colonel Custer in his latest book, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  Philbrick is perhaps best known for his naval histories, including In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction) and Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.

For more information about Nathaniel Philbrick and his newest book visit his author website.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the May Indie Next list.

Edgar Awards

The Mystery Writers of America presented the 2010 Edgar Awards last week. 

Best Novel:
The Last Child by John Hart

Best First Novel:
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

For a complete list of nominees and winners click here and here.

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

June Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

The Spy by Clive Cussler
The Bourne Objective by Eric Van Lustbader
The Burning Wife by Jeffery Deaver
Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Rule of Nine by Steve Martini
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw
The Lion by Nelson Demille
Death Echo by Elizabeth Lowell
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter
Frankenstein: Lost Souls by Dean Koontz
Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank
Promises to Keep by Jane Green
Tour De Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong's Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France by Bill Strickland
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
Family Ties by Danielle Steel
Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
Broken by Karin Slaughter
In the Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
Inside Out by Barry Eisler