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The Youth Media Awards are announced, and make history. The Costa Book of the Year will be announced later today. Bowker will introduce a new ISBN prefix, 979. More Americans visit the library than go to the movies. Also making history, Doctor Who casts its first black Doctor.

When You See Me by Lisa Gardner leads holds this week. The RUSA/CODES book awards (The Reading List, Notable Books, The Listen List, and more) were announced last night as were the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Michelle Obama wins the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Becoming. Reports of a draft version of John Bolton’s book make the NYT. Kobe Bryant, basketball star and author, has died.

Reagan Arthur has been named executive vice-president and publisher at Knopf. The week ahead in adaptations is filled with the unnerving and the funny. The Portico Prize for Literature is announced, as is the longlist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Author and news anchor Jim Lehrer has died. Captain Marvel is getting a sequel. Shōgun is back on track.

Lost by James Patterson, James O. Born leads nine new books onto the bestseller lists. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins continues to make waves. The Edgar nominations are out. We Need Diverse Books announces the 2020 Walter Award winners and honorees. Amazon plans an Alex Cross TV series based on the works by James Patterson. Netflix plans an anime feature film spinning off from The Witcher.

Oprah picks American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins as her next book club title. So does B&N. The controversy over the book has now broken wide. The Edgar Award nominations will be announced today. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes makes Snow the hero. Reese Witherspoon’s HelloSunshine is hiring a Librarian-in-Residence.

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins leads holds this week. It is also getting wide coverage. People’s Book of the Week is Followers by Megan Angelo. Lee Child will stop writing the Jack Reacher books. His brother will take over writing duties. The preliminary ballot  for the Stoker Awards is out. The National Archives digitally altered historic photographs of the 2017 Woman’s March.

Star Trek: Picard airs and Dolittle hits screens. The Dublin Literary Award announces its longlist. Seth Meyers will host the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards. Also, the finalists for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award are announced. AMC will adapt Stephen King’s Sleeping Beauties. Also on AMC, The Walking Dead: Beyond World will debut on April 12.

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano leads 10 new books onto the bestseller lists. The National Jewish Book Award winners are announced. The February LibraryReads list is announced. The Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, will air in 2022. Outlander will get “a slew of spin-offs, sequels and story extensions.” Snowpiercer has a premiere date, May 31. There is a new buzzy Trump book out. ALA hires an Executive Director.

The Atlantic plans to publish more fiction, more frequently, starting with “Birdie,” a new story by Lauren Groff. LitHub offers its list of the “Most Anticipated Books of 2020.” There is a bevy of adaptation news, and lists of forthcoming adaptations. Anthony Bourdain was working on a travel guide when he died; it will be published in October.