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Time travel, international crime, and untrustworthy cops. 

A full-scale biography of George Floyd.

Investment strategies and a view of the Fed. 

An essay collection from the National Book Award winner. 

Sujit Sivasundaram wins the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for his book, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire. Toni Ann Johnson wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The Forward Prizes for Poetry winners are announced. The 2021 Prix Actusf De L’uchronie shortlist is announced. The 2020 and 2021 Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards are announced. The LA Times Festival of Books announces live event for April. The NYT raves about Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi will be adapted as a series. Plus, Dune gets a sequel for 2023.

Best sellers in social sciences, October 2020 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read Better Off Dead by Lee Child & Andrew Child.

Partha Chatterjee wins the 2021 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today. The Xingyun Awards Winners for Chinese science fiction were announced. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen continue to get coverage for their new book, Renegades: Born in the USA. Gary Shteyngart's new dystopian comedy, Our Country Friends, is featured. David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries, goes on book tour. Interviews arrive with Lee Child & Andrew Child, Neal Stephenson, Nikki Sixx, and more. First lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid, writes a new book about gender equality. Luster by Raven Leilani and The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age by Patrick Parr get TV adaptations. Plus, Mitzi Angel becomes the first woman to take the helm at Farrar, Straus and Giroux as president. 

Better Off Dead by Lee Child & Andrew Child leads holds this week. Three Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller. The NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Book of the Year Awards were announced, with Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge winning for best fiction and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner winning best nonfiction. Katie Couric's new memoir Going There, is buzzing along with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen's book, Renegades: Born in the USA. Alan Cumming's memoir, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, gets coverage. Plus, spooky booklists arrive just in time for Halloween.

Lindsey Drager wins the 2021 Annual Bard Fiction Prize for The Archive of Alternate Endings. Michelle Good wins the 2021 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Five Little Indians. The Ursula K. La Guin Prize for fiction, newly created, will debut next year. Interviews explore the perspective of authors Billy Porter of Unprotected, Kalani Pickhart of I Will Die in a Foreign Land, Wendy J. Fox of What If We Were Somewhere Else, Ken Haigh of On Foot to Canterbury, Omar El Akkad of What Strange Paradise, Yvonne Orji of Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams, and Phoebe Robinson of Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes.

The 2021 Cundill History Prize Finalists are announced. State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton, To Rescue the Republic by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney, and The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard top the bestsellers lists. News about upcoming releases including a book series by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Bad Mormon by Heather Gay. Interviews explore the experiences of Steve Shirripa of Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos and Courtney Balestier of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath.

Mary Kubica’s novels have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. 

Fantasy, folklore, and cyberpunk.

Summers glorious and inglorious, from three best-selling authors.

The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize announces its shortlist, including honorees Kaitlyn Greenidge, Raven Leilani, Mia Birdsong, and more. The 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist is announced. Lucy Caldwell wins the BBC National Short Story Award, for "All the People Were Mean and Bad." LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Judge’s List, by John Grisham, this week’s buzziest book. Reviews continue for Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit, Unprotected by Billy Porter, and Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. Author Kate Mosse launches a new YouTube channel, featuring a monthly book club. The NYT considers how to suggest books, with librarian Joyce Saricks. Plus, a look at bringing Dune, based on the book by Frank Herbert, to the big screen.

Big print-run debuts for entertaining spring reading.

New fiction from the Pulitzer Prize winner. 

Labor history, Hong Kong, and World War II. 

19th-century Puerto Rico, the 1918 Flu, Fascist Italy, and more.

From Janelle Brown to Danielle Steel.

The 2021 Aurora Awards are announced, with Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia winning the award for best fiction. Antje Rávik Strubel wins the 2021 German Book Prize. Rebecca Campbell Wins the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for An Important Failure. A new Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction award will launch in 2022. Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit and Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout get reviewed. Billy Porter's memoir, Unprotected continues to generate buzz. 

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read The Judge’s List by John Grisham. 

The Judge's List by John Grisham leads holds this week. Author and statesman Colin Powell dies at 84 of Covid-19. The shortlist is announced for The Baillie Gifford Prize. Female thriller writer Carmen Mola, is revealed to be three men, as they accept the €1m Planeta Prize, sparking controversy. Four LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. The November LibraryReads list arrives, as does the November issue of Entertainment Weekly. People's book of the week is The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, and the cover feature highlights Katie Couric and her new memoir, Going There. 

Body horror has been a staple of the horror genre starting as far back as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The fear of damage to one’s body and the transformation or destruction of one’s wholeness or identity are features of this subgenre, where the focus is the violation of the human body. It can range from beautiful and haunting to an absolute gore fest. Many contemporary titles incorporate aspects of body horror so readily that sometimes it is taken for granted, but these selections put those elements of the storytelling front and center.

Awards are announced for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists and the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers shortlist. Publishing news on the separation of Pantheon and Schocken Books from Alfred A. Knopf. Penguin Classics will publish special editions of Marvel Comics. Interviews explore the experiences of Doma Mahmoud of Cairo Circles, Fritjof Capra of Patterns of Connection, Keith Boykin of Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, Jocelyn Nicole of My Monticello, Greg Miller of The Apprentice: Trump, Russia And The Subversion Of American Democracy, and Jonathan Franzen of Crossroads. Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet, has died at the age of 82.

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is named the 2021 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage for The Greedy Barbarian. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, The Butler by Danielle Steel, The Storyteller by Dave Grohl, Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci, and I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham top the best sellers lists for the week. New releases announced for a story collection collaboration between Keke Palmer and Jasmine Guillory called Southern Belle Insults, Trisha Yearwood’s new cookbook, Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family, and a possible unnamed Britney Spears memoir. Netflix launches a book club for adaptations, hosted by Uzo Aduba, starting with November pick Passing by Nella Larsen.

Best sellers in geology, October 2020 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

The next novel from the author of Shuggie Bain. 

From Sara Baume to Miguel Syjugo. 

Short stories from award-winning authors, often with their first collections. 

Sally Rooney declines rights to Israeli publisher, courting controversy. The October 2021 Earphones Winners are posted at Audiofile. The November 2021 Loan Stars list is out as well, featuring top pick Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. USA Today gives On Animals by Susan Orlean a 4 star review. State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to buzz. Silverview by the late John le Carré gets put into context. Akwaeke Emezi tackles the romance genre.

The spring season is always a good time for debuts, but this April there's an especially strong showing. 

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton. 

Hailey Piper discusses the intersection of romance and horror, her literary and film influences, and her first novel, Queen of Teeth.

State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton leads holds and coverage this week. Christina Estes’s debut novel, Off the Air (due out in 2023), wins the 2020 Tony Hillerman Prize for a best first mystery novel. John Williams wins the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in SF. Three LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. Billy Porter, author of the memoir Unprotected, is featured. Melinda French Gates launches a female-focused imprint, Moment of Lift Books, at Flatiron. Both Superman and his son come out. 

This year, publishers are finding that more readers than ever are seeking comfort from great stories, in particular mysteries. The titles featured here cover a wide variety of subgenres within the category, like psychological suspense, police procedural, romantic, and cozy mysteries.

Fashion books may appear to appeal exclusively to fashionistas, dress historians, or aspiring designers, but titles about why we wear what we do and when are beautiful and compelling. The 21st-century fashion books in this selection, including several exhibition catalogues, address new research questions and uncommon subjects. Most draw on advances in printing technology to illustrate the amazing variety and detail that make fashion exciting.

Librarians are often asked to help patrons with genealogy research; these print titles and online resources will be valuable, whether librarians are experienced with the topic or relative newcomers.