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."
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.
More best lists appear, including some looking at a different slice of the pie. The NYT responds further about the controversy over Alice Walker. The Guardian reports on an author hired to write stories that actually put readers to sleep. Where'd You Go, Bernadette gets a trailer.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh made the most "best of" lists. Two literary controversies makes news, one involving Alice Walker, the other continues the discussion around Linda Fairstein's Grand Master award. The Associated Press looks at the big publishing stories of 2018.
Not the Duke's Darling by Elizabeth Hoyt leads holds this week. More best books of the year lists appear, with a focus on Romance, SFF, and audiobooks. There is a controversy between authors Nora Roberts and Tomi Adeyemi on Twitter. Both authors used the title phrase "of blood and bone" in recent books. Downton Abbey gets a teaser trailer.
If Beale Street Could Talk and Mary Poppins Returns lead adaptations this week. Amy Poehler plans to adapt The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai as a TV series. The NYT spotlights poetry. The December EarlyWord GalleyChat is out as is the January LibraryReads list.
Of Blood and Bone: Chronicles of The One, Book 2 by Nora Roberts leads the way on the bestseller lists this week. Tommy Orange wins The Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize. More "Best Of" lists arrive, including two spotlighting comics. Michelle Obama will feature on C-SPANs Book TV this Saturday.
Best books and summaries of the year dominate the news today. Also, plenty of reviews of the best media of the year, including several adaptations. PEN America announces its 2019 Literary Awards Longlists. Forbes names the "World's Highest-Paid Authors" for 2018. Lin-Manuel Miranda releases a song that was cut from Hamilton.
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.
Pandemic by Robin Cook leads holds this week. People names its best books of 2018. Plenty of other media outlets do so as well. Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood wins the Thurber Prize For American Humor. Avengers Endgame gets its first trailer.
Books, how they sell and circulate, come under the spotlight. More "best of" lists arrive. Celeste Ng is the victim of a YouTube impersonation. The January 2019 Indie Next list is out. Game of Thrones gets a teaser trailer.
Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny leads the new books on the bestsellers lists. The Golden Globe nominations are out, with some book-related picks. Michelle Obama answers the NYT's By the Book questions. More best books arrive and Vulture looks at the year in publishing.
More "best book" lists arrive, including best baking and best covers. My Brilliant Friend will continue on in a second season. John Grisham gets a larger adaptation deal. Watership Down gets its trailer.
More best book lists arrive, including the Goodreads Choice Awards and Bill Gates's picks of 2018. The Milkman gets contrasting reviews and Patrick Rothfuss helps raise more than a half a million for charity.
Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts and Milkman by Anna Burns lead holds this week. Pennie Clark Ianniciello and Reese Witherspoon are out with December book picks. More "best of the year" and December "best book lists" arrive. The Dublin Murder Squad books head to STARZ.
The NYT celebrates black male authors. Michelle Obama's memoir is the best selling hardcover book of 2018. The Chicago Tribune picks its 10 best books of the year. George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers debuts this weekend.
Five new titles make the bestseller lists. Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, titled The Testaments. LJ names the best books of 2018 and the NYT picks the Kids Notables list.
Linda Fairstein and Martin Cruz Smith receive the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. Fairstein's naming is highly controversial. Christmas gift suggestions arrive for readers. Netflix is adapting Roald Dahl and Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon is headed to TV.
More best book (and audiobook) lists arrive to count the year's notable achievements. On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong wins the Staunch prize. Trailers are out for the Disney adaptation of the Artemis Fowl books and Patrick Süskind's Perfume.
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.
Esi Edugyan has won the Giller Prize for Washington Black . It is her second win of the highly coveted Canadian prize. Michelle Obama's Becoming sold almost nine copies per second its opening day. Glamour magazine will cease its print run but will continue online. George R.R. Martin features on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. Happy Thanksgiving.
The NYT announces its Notable Books of the year. The New York Public Library offers a list of 2018's best as well. Both Becoming and My Brilliant Friend continue to dominate the news, with details of fast sells and watching clubs.
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.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, My Brilliant Friend, and Widows open this weekend. Both Time and LibraryReads pick their best of the year. In new adaptation news David Baldacci, Mira Grant, and Annalee Newitz all head to the screen.
Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child tops the bestsellers list this week. The National Book Awards have been announced. The Washington Post picks its best books of 2018. HBO's My Brilliant Friend gets a great review in the NYT and Dumplin' gets its trailer, pushing the book up the Amazon rankings.
The National Book Awards are announced tonight. HBO sets April as the start of the final season of Game of Thrones. Michelle Obama wins the book buzz game hands down with her Tuesday rollout.
Comics master Stan Lee has died. Oprah picks Becoming for her book club. The National Book Awards are announced tomorrow. If Becoming were not dominating the news then A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne would be the book of the day.
Becoming by Michelle Obama leads holds this week, sweeping in focused coverage. My Brilliant Friend debuts on Nov. 18th. A bevy of stories usher it to the screen. Michael Chabon is going to write for Star Trek. Tayari Jones writes about the greatness of author Ann Petry and plenty of other authors get profiles. Amazon offers up its choices for Best Books of the Year.
The big book story over the weekend and next week will be Michelle Obama's Becoming. In other news, three book-based movies open today. Erin Morgenstern will have a new novel out in 2019 and Rogue One is getting a prequel series on the new Disney+ service.
Elevation by Stephen King and Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz top the bestseller lists today. Librarians are celebrated and book exhibitions make news. A new study in the UK finds that reading can combat loneliness as well as "assist with social mobility and mental health, and even 'hold off' dementia." The new Grinch movie is set to open to big box office.
Lucia Berlin continues to get buzz and the very long nomination lists for both the CILIP Greenaway Medal and the Carnegie Medal nominations are out. A brief first look at the forthcoming Greta Gerwig adaptation of Little Women has arrived. Roald Dahl did not get a commemorative coin due to his anti-Semitic views.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty gets mixed reviews. Lucia Berlin gets more buzz and Idra Novey's Those Who Knew catches the wave too. The NYT issues its books 2018 Holiday Gift Guide. The NYPL's "The Librarian Is In" blog gets national attention.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty tops holds this week. The World Fantasy Awards are out. The Changeling by Victor LaValle and Jade City by Fonda Lee tie for Best Novel. The 2018 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books are also announced. Michelle Obama's book tour is going to the UK and author Kiese Laymon considers Mrs. Obama for Vanity Fair. The Color Purple Broadway musical is getting adapted for the movies and Discovery of Witches gets a second and third season order (Season one will not air in the US until January).
Droughtlander is almost over, season four of Outlander starts on Sunday. News breaks about how HBO's GOT might end. Family Trust by Kathy Wang gets the Costco nod. More best of the month booklist are out as are the book club picks from Reese Witherspoon and Belletrist (with a new YA club). The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem gets some buzz.
The Reckoning by John Grisham and The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant top the bestseller lists this week. A Separation by Katie Kitamura is the November pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club. November booklist start to arrive.
Halloween reading haunts the bookish web. The Red Word by Sarah Henstra wins the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. The NYT has a feature on Elena Ferrante. The Obamas are turning The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis into a Netflix series. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang is headed to the movies.
Books take new forms and gain tech extras. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory gets a glowing review. The revival, and appreciation, of Lucia Berlin continues. Martha Nussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, wins the 2018 Berggruen Prize. Ntozake Shange, author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, has died.
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly leads holds this week. The new TV show Tell Me a Story picks up some buzz, even as Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little, keeps the spotlight. A previously unpublished story by Sylvia Plath is getting published and The Atlantic considers the topic of consent in Romance novels in a conversation with Jasmine Guillory.
The Kirkus Prize winners are announced, as are the British CWA Awards. More Halloween reading is on offer and plenty of adaptations debut today and into next week. Speaking of adaptations, Jane Austen's Emma gets dual 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.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee wins PBS’s The Great American Read. The NYT writes about Trans-Lit. The Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz catches the buzz and so does the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
The British Fantasy Awards are announced. Also in award news, the Brooklyn Public Library announces its 2018 Literary Prize winners. Guillermo del Toro will create a stop-motion animated version of Pinocchio. John Green announces a book club. The man who created the first Little Free Library 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.
Judy Blume has sold film rights to Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard top the bestseller lists. The Reckoning by John Grisham gets an early review. The shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize is out.
Anna Burns has won the Man Booker prize for Milkman. It will publish in the US this December. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laym is picking up buzz. The NYT offers a podcast with director Barry Jenkins and author Meg Wolitzer on the art of adaptation.
The Man Booker prize will be awarded tonight in the UK. Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver is getting mixed reviews. Esquire picks the best film adaptations of novels this year. And on that note, FX is going to adapt Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver leads holds this week. The Library Book by Susan Orlean gets plenty of buzz, as does Ellie Kemper's My Squirrel Days. Elle picks "The 19 Best Books of 2018 (So Far)." Christopher Paolini announces his newest book, set in the world of Eragon, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia (Volume 1: Eragon).
The Not Nobel award is granted. Plenty of adaptations open today and over the weekend. Haunting of Hill House captures the buzz. James Patterson says that library users need to make some noise.
Many new titles appear on the bestseller lists this week. The Witch Elm by Tana French and The Library Book by Susan Orlean get reviews in both the NYT and The Washington Post while news breaks that Colson Whitehead's next book will be published in July. Pet Sematary gets a trailer and Samin Nosrat's new Netflix show Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat starts today.
Award season heats up with finalists, winners, and the process itself making news. Home libraries create huge benefits. EarlyWord posts its October GalleyChat Roundup. Melmoth by Sarah Perry and Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss catch some buzz.
New York Comic Con explores the concept of genre. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami is the book of the day. Reese Witherspoon picks her October audiobook. There is a word for owning more books than you could ever read.
Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, co-wins the Nobel peace prize. Holy Ghost by John Sandford leads holds this week. The Witch Elm by Tana French is getting the early week buzz. Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter is headed to the screen and poet Tracy K. Smith is starting a poetry podcast to debut this November.
Natalie Diaz, Kelly Link, John Keene, and playwright Dominique Morisseau are among the new MacArthur 'Genius' Grants winners. Fifteen book-related films or TV shows open today and through the week. Wrecked by Joe Ide and All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung pick up more buzz. Shonda Rhimes turns her attention to author Blake Crouch.
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.
October best book lists arrive. Comics make news. The Giller prize shortlist is out as is the winner of the Royal Society prize.
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult leads holds this week. Stephen Colbert has a new book forthcoming, Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don’t Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane. Entertainment Weekly features the adaptation of the Agatha Raisin series. Chrissy Teigen, Cravings: Hungry for More, and Transcription by Kate Atkinson both get focused coverage. Book awards are in the news again.
New stories and old debut on screen today. Looking ahead, the newest X-Men film gets its trailer and even more Romance novels get adapted.
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.
Sarah Jessica Parker picks a new book club title for ALA and The Kirkus Prize finalists are out. Comics make news on multiple fronts. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton is getting adapted, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald gets another trailer.
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.
Transcription by Kate Atkinson leads holds this week. The National Book Foundation names its 5 Under 35. Up-Lit is leading genre trends as publishers gear up for the Frankfurt Book Fair, leaving darker Psychological Suspense novels behind. Lee Child is joining a musical group.
Eight adaptations air this weekend, with news that plenty of more are to come. Michelle Obama "is generating Beyoncé-level sales" for her book tour. Authors and editors writing letters and artists getting book treatments make news. Abir Mukherjee wins the Wilbur Smith prize for A Necessary Evil.
Fear by Bob Woodward tops the bestseller lists. The Man Booker Shortlist makes a bit of literary history. The NYT Romance column is out, and George R.R. Martin has something to say about Winds of Winter (mostly, still not on the way).
Poet Danez Smith wins the Forward Prize. New York Media, including New York Magazine and Vulture, plans to triple book coverage. Captain Marvel gets a trailer.
Vulture names the 100 most important books of the 2000s. Vanity Fair picks the best books of fall. Book sales jumped 2% in the first half of 2018. Trailers are out for Mary Poppins Returns and The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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