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Redemption by David Baldacci leads 12 new books onto the bestseller lists. Paperbacks get some buzz. Nora Roberts is suing a Brazilian writer for plagiarism. There are two stories today about lost books and a watching guide to get ready for Avengers: Endgame.
The Night Mail by Hoda Barakat wins the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster gets buzzy. Stephen King's Salem's Lot is getting adapted. Crime fiction gets a deep-dive conversation.
Prince's memoir will publish this October. Henry Winkler gets a new series. Ian McEwan and Melinda Gates get buzz. It is no shock, but Avengers: Endgame is already selling multi-millions in presales in advance of this Friday's big debut and movie theaters plan round-the-clock showings.
Neon Prey by John Sandford leads holds this week. Get ready for Avengers: Endgame. Mueller hits Amazon's bestseller list. Game of Thrones teases episode three.
Five book-based films and TV shows debut today and Stephen King has yet another adaptation in the works. There are new reading lists for Beyoncé, baseball, and SFF and new coverage about the printing of the Mueller report.
Sixteen new bestsellers arrive. The Mueller Report will be released today, and will be rushed to the shelves. The Time 100 List features a number of authors.
More award news breaks today, helping readers of comics and genre readers, as well as those who are drawn to landscape. Ann Petry gets attention in the NYT and Morgan Jerkins interviews Claudia Rankine for Vulture. State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts by Nick Hornby will publish in May. It is the source for the Sundance TV show of the same name.
Redemption by David Baldacci leads holds this week but Sally Rooney wins the buzz contest hands down. Game of Thrones wins too, and there is a teaser out for episode 2. Also new to the screen, a teaser trailer for The Rise of Skywalker. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction will be announced later today.
Winter is coming (on Sunday) but more adaptations air today and thorugh the week. Millennial novels get buzzy with a strong focus on Sally Rooney and a newspaper story about the range of millennial books. Tayari Jones wins again and more award news breaks.
There are eight new bestsellers this week. The NYT's Romance column returns. N.K. Jemisin talks about Green Lantern. The new Guggenheim Fellows are named.
The Man Booker International Prize shortlist is out. Essayists consider "women's fiction." The NYT picks the best cookbooks of spring. A new literary discovery reveals books that no longer exist.
Stephen King is adapting Lisey’s Story for Apple TV. There is plenty of other page to screen news as well. More spring, April, and forthcoming book lists suggest winning titles while ALA announces its list of the most banned ones.
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline leads holds this week. The librarian and bookseller pick Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly has a great showing too. The May Indie Next list is out and there is plenty of award news. ALA's Top 10 most challenged books will be released later today.
Pet Sematary, A Discovery of Witches, and more adaptations open today and through the week. The Dublin Literary Award shortlist is out. The Verge will livestream a conversation about fantasy fiction between Marlon James and George R.R. Martin on April 10.
Eleven new bestsellers march onto the lists. The Joker gets a trailer. The Guardian has a feature story about "the long fight against racism in romance novels."
The Hugo Award finalists have been announced, as has the Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist. Much SFF news breaks, including more looks at Game of Thrones, season 8. The Mouse Guard film casts up.
April best book lists arrive. The Library Book by Susan Orlean is getting adapted. Women Talking by Miriam Toews gets notable attention. Sarah Vowell will talk about the future of libraries this Thursday.
The A List by J.A. Jance leads holds this week. Ten new library and booksellers picks hit the shelves. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones wins the NAACP Image Award for Fiction. NOS4A2 gets a trailer.
Big names lead film and TV for the week. New booklists arrive, including the NYT gathering up some horror novels. The Guardian considers the ills of self-publishing and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark gets a trailer.
Run Away by Harlan Coben leads a number of new bestsellers this week. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell gets notable attention. The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty by Susan Page is also making news. HBO will air a Game of Thrones feature-length documentary in May.
Becoming by Michelle Obama is on pace to become the best-selling memoir, ever. No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny is getting buzz. Nnedi Okorafor is part of a team adapting Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler for Amazon.
Apple makes a splash and so does Oprah. Colson Whitehead has new work out, and a new book on the way. The NYT explores the Trump tell-all book business.
The Cornwalls Are Gone by James Patterson, with Brendan DuBois leads holds this week, with more big names also doing well. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams is getting buzz. NYPL librarians pick books for the spring and Vanity Fair speculates on the possible Pulitzer winners. Largehearted boy offers some music for Monday, as selected by Bryan Washington.
The RITA finalists are announced. Philip Pullman wins the JM Barrie lifetime achievement award. More spring book picks add to the running count.
Six new bestsellers arrive; C.J. Box leads the pack. There are more awards breaking news and more spring book picks too, including the cookbooks of the season. Jezebel goes to the Maryland town Nora Roberts has all but remade.
Tommy Orange wins the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award, spring picks start to arrive, and the Michelle Obama book tour comes to YouTube.
It is a very newsy day for Josh Malerman. USA Today, LJ, and the NYT have books to note and The Wellcome Prize announces its shortlist.
Run Away by Harlan Coben leads holds this week. The poet W.S. Merwin has died. The final season of Game of Thrones will not feature movie-length episodes. Andrew Rannells gets buzzy and Harper's magazine has something to say about criticism, reviews, and book coverage.
The National Book Critics Circle winners are announced. Avengers: Endgame gets a new trailer. Shrill gets some buzz. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is headed to Apple.
Greg Iles and Rachel Hollis join 12 new bestsellers this week. Major money awards are announced and the National Book Critics Circle Awards come out tonight. Alicia Keys and Oprah Winfrey team up.
The Man Booker International and the American Academy issue longlist or award winners. A new Trump book, this time focused on his daughter and son-in-law, is getting buzzy coverage. Three notable adaptations are in the works. Aladdin gets a new, musical, trailer.
Three awards honor diverse titles. Sally Rooney has a new story. A T.S. Eliot recording is unearthed. Lin-Manuel Miranda shares vacation reading. James McBride's Good Lord Bird is headed to Showtime.
Wolf Pack by C. J. Box leads holds this week, and, along with James Patterson's The First Lady, dominates demand. Audiobooks get attention as do two literary tourist locales and the apartment of an designer turned author.
Captain Marvel debuts today and American Gods starts season two next week. Michelle Obama talks favorite children's books. Don Winslow's Cartel trilogy is headed to TV.
The Border by Don Winslow leads six new bestsellers this week. Good Omens gets its first full trailer. Jenna Bush Hager starts a buzzy bookclub. More best of March lists arrive.
Awards and March best books make news. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson get buzzy, as does A.N. Devers. Game of Thrones has a full trailer for season 8.
March best book lists arrive. The Audie Awards are announced. The Nobel Prize in Literature makes its two awards in 2019 stance official.
Silent Night by Danielle Steel leads holds this week, with some other big names also finding plenty of readers. Librarians and booksellers pick a baker's dozen. The Women's Prize for Fiction releases its longlist—and makes history.
Topping the charts, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe leads nine new bestsellers this week. The Booker Prize gets a sponsor. Michelle Obama and John Green are teaming up for a BookTube short series.
Three adaptations open today or later in the week. The Baby-Sitters Club series is heading to Netflix and the NYT considers Captain Marvel.
The PEN America literary awards are announced. Jen Beagin gets focused attention. Book two in Philip Pullman's "The Book of Dust" series is on the way. Bonnie and Clyde wrote poetry.
The Bram Stoker and Lukas Prize announce their shortlists. Books by Octavia E. Butler are getting re-issued. The New York Review of Books names new editors.
California Girls by Susan Mallery and Chocolate Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke lead holds this week. The Oscars honor some bookish winners. Playboy has found an unpublished interview with Maya Angelou. Charles Dickens apparently wanted to lock up his wife in an asylum.
Big box office is expected for one of the Page to Screen films opening today. There is much forthcoming book news, including a children's book deal by Will Smith. "The Turn of the Screw" is headed to TV, and the NYT offers whole collection readers' advisory service.
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. The Nebula Award nominees are out. President Obama's presidential library plan is worrying some archivists.
Today brings news of plagiarism allegations in romance. The Man in the High Castle will end after season four and has a new teaser trailer making the announcement. Nightflyers has been canceled but the NYT has more details on George R.R. Martin's more successful show. The animated film version of Green Eggs and Ham gets a trailer.
Cosmic horror and global literature lead the day. Ann Petry joins the ranks of Library of America authors. W.E.B. Griffin has died.
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.