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Four new adaptations come to screens big and small today. The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe is the newest Trump book to break big and make news. There is more on literary (and maybe musical) fakers.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides leads the way for 12 new books on the bestseller lists. The NAACP Image Award nominees are out. Multiple outlets offer Valentine's Day reading suggestions. Vulture says the locked-room mystery is back.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lauren Wilkinson, and Valeria Luiselli dominate coverage today. Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines sold astoundingly well. Ottessa Moshfegh writes about Whoopi Goldberg. A forthcoming children's book has a huge payday as it moves to the big screen.
Michelle Obama makes the bestseller list in Iran. A medieval nun fakes her death. The Devil in the White City is headed to Hulu, and a Joe Hill short story is set for Netflix.
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo leads holds this week. Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman win awards on two continents. Stephen King has more adaptations on the way and EC comics is headed to a screen near you.
Book-based series return to small screens this week and new shows launch. More V.C. Andrews TV adaptations are coming, and the Clinton/Patterson novel, The President is Missing, is headed to Showtime.
Marlon James wins the day, with Jasmine Guillory and Angie Thomas having great days as well. Zaitoun by Yasmin Khan is proving to be a cookbook with buzz.
The New Yorker has an explosive story on A.J. Finn (aka Dan Mallory). Locus publishes its Recommended Reading List. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas is headed to the movies.
Marlon James gets notable coverage. More J.D. Salinger work is set for publication. The Audie award finalists are announced. Mostly to yawns, new trailers debut during the Super Bowl. Pennie Clark Ianniciello and Reese Witherspoon both announce their monthly book suggestions.
Stephen King announces his next book. A YA author withdraws hers. Margaret Atwood's newest gets its cover. Three adaptations open today and new book lists arrive.
Crucible by James Rollins leads seven new books onto the bestseller lists. LJ issues its Editors' Spring Picks. There is more Stephen King heading to TV, and an exhaustive Harry Potter podcast wraps up.
Megan Abbott's Dare Me is headed to TV and Gillian Flynn has a project with Amazon. The Costa Book of the Year award is annouced, as are the finalists for B&N's Discover Awards.
Children's books win big prizes and political memoirs make noise. Marlon James gets a glowing review and librarian Nancy Pearl suggests literary journeys.
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims leads holds this week. The ALA adult book awards are out and the youth awards will follow later this morning. Hillbilly Elegy has a big payday. Spiegel & Grau is shuttered and the Booker prize loses its sponsor.
E. L. James is writing a new book. The CNN reporter Jim Acosta is too. The PEN Award finalists are announced and Jamel Brinkley wins The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
Liar Liar by James Patterson leads four new bestsellers onto the bestseller lists. Bill Clinton will write a new memoir. Endpapers get notice and Nancy Drew is headed back to TV.
ALA award weekend approaches and LJ has a galley guide for those heading to Seattle. LJ picks the best audiobooks and DVDs of 2018, the Bollingen Prize is awarded, and Russell Baker has died.
The Edgars, Oscars, and National Book Critics Circle all announce finalists and nominees today. A new Trump tell-all captures media attention. The NYT looks at books forthcoming in 2019 from around the globe and NPR looks at the year ahead in poetry.
The poet Mary Oliver has died. Min Jin Lee recommends 5 books by women. The 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year is announced. Deborah Harkness is featured in the NYT.
Plenty of new books on the bestseller lists this week, with An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen leading the way. Author Sherrilyn Kenyon accuses her husband of trying to poison her. Chris Christie's forthcoming book makes waves, and Amazon says that the Authors Guild study is "flawed."
Poets get funded. The February LibraryReads list is out. Carmen Maria Machado and Bill Bryson have new books on the way.
Baker & Taylor sells part of its entertainment division to Ingram, Hannah Sullivan wins the TS Eliot prize, and the NYT writes about looted books in libraries across Europe.
Liar Liar by James Patterson and Candice Fox leads holds this week and several other hot titles have high hold ratios. Game of Thrones will debut on April 14. NPR reports on "The World's Most Beautiful Bookstore."
EarlyWord updates its diversity title list. There is also a spreadsheet. Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta Schweblin gets a glowing review. A Discovery of Witches, the TV series, starts its run on Thursday and some book critics are not happy with Marie Kondo.
Verses for the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child leads the way as three new titles hit the bestsellers lists. The Story Prize finalists are announced. Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union is getting adapted.
The Millions publishes its Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2019 Book Preview. Poetry gets attention as well. William Gibson will be named the 35th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
The Costa book awards are out. Sally Rooney wins best novel for Normal People. Lin-Manuel Miranda buys a bookstore and more lists of anticipated 2019 titles are out.
Turning Point by Danielle Steel leads holds this week, while Becoming leads the USA Today list of its 100 best-sellers of the year. The Golden Globes honor a few book adaptations and HBO offers a quick look at some key 2019 adaptations, including Game of Thrones and Big Little Lies.
A few more January lists publish and news breaks that PW has bought Millions, a literary magazine. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks is headed to Broadway and the Chicago Tribune says that author Tressie McMillan Cottom is "the author you need to read now."
Three titles make the day: Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #6) by Dav Pilkey debuts at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list, Pennie Clark Ianniciello selects Tangerine by Christine Mangan as her January Costco pick, and Reese Witherspoon picks The Library Book by Susan Orlean (S. & S) as her January title. Plus, there are plenty of new best of the month lists and best of 2019 choices, too.
The Boy by Tami Hoag leads holds this week. 2018 closes out with more "Best Of" lists while 2019 rings in with suggested reads for the year, and the month. Amos Oz has died.
Six adaptations hit screens today and through the week. More "Best Of" lists publish. Tor.com offers 100 SFF gems. The ABC Murders gets an airdate.
No bestsellers this week but more "best of" lists come out, including one from The Atlantic and #libfaves18. Diana Gabaldon announces book nine in the Outlander series will publish this year. A number of authors get interviewed, including Roxane Gay, R.L. Stine, and Susan Orlean.
Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey leads holds this week. Librarians and booksellers suggest Watching You by Lisa Jewell. Insurrecto by Gina Apostol and The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas get great reviews. The Book of the Month Club picks Circe by Madeline Miller as their "Book of the Year." Barack Obama teams up with Lin-Manuel Miranda for a gospel reworking of a song from Hamilton.
There are no new bestsellers this week but the "best of" accounting keeps rolling on. Today are lists addressing romance, crime, horror, and more. Five new adaptations are announced and both Aladdin and Catch-22 get first-look images.
Call it Best Book Day, as ten more "best of lists" arrive and #LibFaves 2018 swings into gear. NPR picks December romances and The Washington Post picks audio for the season. Godzilla and A Series of Unfortunate Events get trailers.
Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny leads holds this week. Becoming by Michelle Obama is the bestselling book of the week. The Costa Book Awards shortlists are out. Lee Child says the Reacher films with Tom Cruise are no more. The series will move to "Long-form streaming television, with a completely new actor." The NYPL gets in on Black Friday shopping.
Target: Alex Cross by James Patterson leads holds this week. Becoming sold 725,000 books in one day. The Dublin Literary Awards issues the 2019 longlist, with 141 novels. HBO's My Brilliant Friend and My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite are getting focused attention.
Nicholas Sparks and Pete Souza top the bestseller lists. The shortlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals and a bevy of horror suggestions are out. Little, Brown is creating a new illustrated book imprint, the adaptation of Bird Box gets its trailer, and poet Tony Hoagland has died.
The Reckoning by John Grisham leads holds by a landslide this week. It is also an IndieNext selection. Multiple stories about horror fiction arrive in time for Halloween. Eve Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black: Stories get focused attention. BookNet Canada issues a report on audiobook listening, buying, and discovering.
Random House and Crown merge into one joint division. Seven adaptations hit screens today and through the week, and even more are on the way. NYT Magazine interviews George R.R. Martin and the paper celebrates The Hunger Games.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green and Red War by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills top the bestseller lists. There is book news from Thomas Harris and Elizabeth Gilbert. Netflix is re-making the "Chronicles of Narnia" and Venom is caught in a weird social media moment.
The longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence has been set. Plenty of other award news breaks as well. The NYT selects the fall's best cookbooks, and a few sites venture to pick the best books and audiobooks of the year.
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith leads the bestseller lists today. The shortlist for the Goldsmiths Prize is out. In the UK, the Carnegie Medal is revamping in the face of its lack of diversity. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer will be adapted, with Nicole Kidman attached to produce.
Rage and love feature heavily in today's book news. Mark Haddon's next novel, The Porpoise, will publish in 2019. Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity is getting made into a new film and The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks is headed to TV. There is even more adaptation news on top of that.
