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Bookish shows about a secret garden, a determined detective, and more debut today and through the weekend. More picks for August arrive. Former President George W. Bush is writing a book, Out Of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants. Oprah interviews Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be an Antiracist.

Deadlock by Catherine Coulter leads five new books onto the bestseller lists. Luster by Raven Leilani continues to get focused attention. A number of outlets mark the anniversary of Toni Morrison's death. Trump books are in the news.

Oprah picks Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson as her next book club title. Many more August booklists arrive. Raven Leilani and Luster get more buzzy coverage. Ta-Nehisi Coates will guest-edit the September issue of Vanity Fair. Disney is taking the live-action Mulan to Disney+ rather than theaters, but subscribers will still have to pay extra to watch it. Ratched gets a trailer.

Book club picks make the news as Reese Witherspoon selects Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat. Jenna Bush Hager names two for the month: The Comeback by Ella Berman and Here for It: Or, How To Save Your Soul in America; Essays by R. Eric Thomas. Vox's group will read The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. More top reading choices for August arrive as well and Luster by Raven Leilani and The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi get buzzy coverage. Stephen King has a new book for next March.

The Hugo Awards are announced. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine wins for best novel. The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer were announced as well. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer leads holds this week. Pennie Clark Ianniciello picks a much older title, Last Orders by Graham Swift, as her August title. More book picks for August arrive and Chicago will host the 80th World Science Fiction convention.

The Umbrella Academy, Ann Rule, and Martha Stewart feature in this week’s bookish screen offerings. The 1945 Retro Hugo Awards Winners are announced. The L.A. Times features Dana Canedy and Lisa Lucas as they take on their new roles at the top of the publishing hierarchy. Emma Straub discusses the future of indie bookstores. Amazon and other big tech companies appear on Capitol Hill.

Near Dark by Brad Thor leads six new titles onto the bestseller lists. Booklists for August and best audio for July arrive. Rocket Says Look Up! by Nathan Bryon, illustrated by Dapo Adeola wins the Waterstones children’s book prize. Authors including Emily M. Danforth, Tiffany McDaniel, and Sara Seager discuss “bringing their books into the world during cultural upheaval.” The NYT considers how “Noname and other Black thought leaders have taken what Oprah built and made something new.” Michelle Obama’s podcast began yesterday.

Watchmen sweeps the Emmy nominations. The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards are announced. The Ladies of Horror Award winners are out as well. Adrian McKinty wins the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for The Chain. Ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok has a book due out in early September, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump. Natasha Trethewey continues to get buzzy coverage for Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir.

The longlist for the Booker Prize is announced. Hilary Mantel is in the running for a third, and potentially record win, but there are plenty of debut authors in the mix too. Nine of the 13 who made the cut are women. CrimeReads writes, “True Crime Has Been Having a Moment for Three Centuries. But the New Era Is Different.” Oprah Winfrey is starting a new Apple TV+ interview series. Her first guest will be Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist. Didn't See That Coming: Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart by Rachel Hollis is the hot book of the morning. The Witcher gets a prequel series, set 1,200 years earlier. The Emmy nominations will be announced later today.

The Eisner awards are announced. Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden wins Best Graphic Album – New, while Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero and the Invisible Kingdom series by G. Willow Wilson, Christian Ward win the most categories. Deadlock by Catherine Coulter leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. The nominees for the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards are announced. Comic-Con@Home gets wide coverage. O: The Oprah Magazine will cease regular print publication as of December 2020. George Clooney is in negotiations to direct the Amazon Studios's adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar. A stage musical adaptation of Hidden Figures is on the board at Disney.

HBO is turning the stage play of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me into a TV special. Apple greenlights a series adaptation of Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. It will star Elisabeth Moss. BET is planning a tribute to John Lewis for Sunday, July 26 at 7:30 p.m. Essence lists “The 50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years.” Michael Cohen is ordered released from prison after a judge finds his imprisonment “retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book.” The Center for Fiction releases its longlist for the First Novel Prize.

Comic-Con@Home has begun. Jason Reynolds has an adult novel set for 2022. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump is the top-selling book for the week. The Order by Daniel Silva reigns over the fiction list. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue is B&N’s August book club pick. The shortlist is out for the Macavity Awards. Hulu options Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham.

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue win the week, as both get buzzy coverage. The NYT writes “If you want to sell books during a pandemic, it turns out that one of the best places to do it is within easy reach of eggs, milk and diapers.” A new literary magazine, INQUE, is in the works and is already set to feature work by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Ben Lerner, Catherine Lacey, Ben Okri, Ocean Vuong, Jonathan Lethem and more. The Atlantic writes about “The False Promise of Anti-racism Books.” Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz is headed to PBS Masterpiece.

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is BuzzFeed’s August book club title. Publishers Weekly reports on “The Bestselling Books of 2020 (So Far).” Food52 has the “The 10 Best Cookbooks of 2020...So Far.” The Strand Critics Awards nominees are announced. The Not the Booker prize season begins. Michael Cohen is planning a book, and in a new lawsuit claims he was sent back to jail because of it. Netflix is adapting Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam. It will star Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.

National Book Award winner and civil rights icon John Lewis has died. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is What You Wish For by Katherine Center. Margot Harrison, The Glare, writes about Horror and our present times, as we live so much through screens. Curtis Sittenfeld offers writing advice: “a one-month plan for completing your first short story.” Falcon and the Winter Soldier gets delayed while Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans line up to star in Netflix’s adaptation of The Gray Man by Mark Greaney.

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump sells nearly 1 million copies across all formats. Michelle Obama is starting a podcast. Big forthcoming book news: Seanan McGuire has a new book on the way, Seasonal Fears, the sequel to the Locus award-winning Middlegame. Paul Tremblay has a new three-book deal with William Morrow. James Patterson is starting a new series of books featuring the character The Shadow. Munroe Bergdorf is writing a manifesto. More critical looks at Robin DiAngelo and White Fragility land as well.

Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation since 2016, is moving to Random House. She has just been named senior vice president of Pantheon and Schocken Books. Colson Whitehead announces his next book, Harlem Shuffle, due out in fall 2021. Tara June Winch wins the Miles Franklin award, the top Australian book prize, for The Yield. Desolation Road by Christine Feehan leads new bestsellers. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo tops the antiracist bestsellers.

The best SF books of the year thus far and still to come get an accounting. S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland, gets buzzy. Robin DiAngelo and White Fragility gets even more press. EarlyWord’s GalleyChat for July is out. Mary Trump starts a round of interviews in support of Too Much and Never Enough. Prospect magazine picks its list of “top 50 thinkers 2020,” including a wide-range of authors. The NYT writes about changes to publishing.

A judge lifts the gag order on Mary Trump. Lit Hub releases its “Most Anticipated Books of 2020, Part 2.” Library Journal begins #LJReads, a community-wide reading group focused on Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian is headed to TV. Disney+ is planning a Clone Wars spin-off, The Bad Batch. Jane Austen’s home in Bath, England is an Airbnb.

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump leads holds this week, even as a judge continues to prevent Dr. Trump from prompting or discussing her work. Colson Whitehead wins the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction for The Nickel Boys. The Shirley Jackson Awards are out. The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter wins for best novel. People’s "Book of the Week" is Gatecrasher by Ben Widdicombe. The National Book Awards will be all digital in 2020 due to the pandemic. The ceremony will take place, online, on Nov. 18.

The Orwell Prizes are announced. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead wins for Political Fiction. In nonfiction it is Kate Clanchy’s Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me. Greyhound and The Old Guard lead a handful of adaptations this week. Kevin Kwan's Sex and Vanity is headed to the movies.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo continues to top the bestseller lists while Kevin Kwan’s Sex and Vanity leads six new titles onto the lists as well. Trump family lawyers are still trying to block Mary Trump’s book, even as more newspapers offer outtakes and reviews. Ernest Cline, Philip Pullman, and Pete Buttigieg have new work on the way and Gary Larson has posted new comics. Nan A. Talese announces her retirement and Phoebe Robinson starts an imprint at PRH.

Details and revelations make the news as copies of Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man reach newsrooms. The NYT begins the Decameron Project. A collection of early stories by Terry Pratchett is on its way. A long list of writers and artists have an open letter in Harper’s calling for “Justice and Open Debate”; a swift and mostly negative reaction followed. Want by Lynn Steger Strong gets buzz.

Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough is publishing two weeks early, now out on July 14. Also in the news, another book about Melania Trump is on the way, this one by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former advisor let go over questions of inauguration money. Sources report that it “trashes the First Lady.” The 2019 VIDA Count is out. Amazon releases its accounting of the most books sold to date this year. The Maurice Sendak Foundation makes a deal with Apple TV+ and Brad Pitt is starring in a new adaptation, Bullet Train.

Simon & Schuster names Dana Canedy as its new publisher. The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford. The Baby-Sitters Club and Hamilton are at the top of everyone’s mind. More booklists for the week and the year thus far arrive and there are 12 librarian and bookseller picks for the week.

The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton tops bestseller lists. The NY State Supreme Court lifts the block on Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough. The August Indie Next list is out. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy tops the list. Pennie Clark Ianniciello picks The Wedding Thief by Mary Simses as her July title. Lots of booklists arrive and Fox News reporter and author Ed Henry gets cut by Harper.

A judge has temporarily blocked publication of Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Appeals are in the works. July book club titles arrive, along with best of the month lists and picks for the remainder of the reading year. The NYT reports on "What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing.” The publishing world suffers losses as Carl Reiner and Rudolfo Anaya have died.

Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo make history by winning the top British Book awards prizes. Booklists for July, summer, the year thus far, and much more arrive. The two new Normal People forty-years later shorts are here. Netflix’s Baby-Sitters Club gets glowing praise and HBO pays big and wins adaptation rights to The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

The Locus Awards are announced. The Dilemma by B.A. Paris leads holds this week. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia sits atop both the LibraryReads and Indie Next lists. Why Did I Get a B? by Shannon Reed is People’s “Book of the Week.” Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi pick summer reads for Amazon. Antiracist book focus is starting to turn to poetry, both in the U.S. and the UK. Vox has an in-depth report on the romance genre, racism, and the RWA.

Hulu is adapting Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People will have two more short episodes, set forty years in the future. Poetry and audiobooks are both in the news and the NYT offers “How We Got Here: Writers on Race and Racism in America.”

Antiracist titles continue to fill the bestseller lists. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo tops the charts. In new title bestsellers, 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand tops a handful of books. Amazon and Tor.com pick their best books of the year thus far, and there are new summer reading lists out as well. A major book on Korean art is released. The Good Lord Bird is delayed to add context and Gone With The Wind returns with context.

Black-owned bookstores cope with the spike in orders, customer demands, and the tragic reason sales are up. The winners of the Bisexual Book Awards are announced, as are the longlists for the Polari Prize and the Polari First Book Prize for LGBTQ+ literature. As part of the changes to Macmillan’s decision team, John Sargent, the CEO, is stepping back from day-to-day responsibilities. George R. R. Martin says that he hopes to have The Winds of Winter finished by next year. The Trump family is trying to stop the publication of Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

A report on diversity and publishing is out in the UK. Macmillan is changing its management structure to be more diverse. NPR starts this year's Summer Reading Poll, on books for children. Covid-19 continues to change the book world. New reading lists are out for the summer, the week, the month, and the rest of the year. Perry Mason is doing very well. Both Apple TV’s Foundation and Hamilton get trailers.

The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton dominates book coverage and leads library holds for the week. A judge has said publication can go forward and it lands tomorrow. Bolton is already conducting a full court media press. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory is buzzy as well. LJ gathers “Resources for Cultivating an Antiracist Mindset.” Entertainment Weekly has a new list as well. People’s Book of the Week is Don't Turn Around by Jessica Barry.

The board book Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky is so popular it is getting released as a picture book as well. The National Book Critics Circle Board is halting the 2020 award season. There are some Juneteenth reading suggestions and the shortlists are out for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Gordon Burn Prize issues its longlist. Carlos Ruiz Zafón has died.

For a second week in a row, antiracist titles fill the bestseller lists. EarlyWord’s June GalleyChat, focused on black authors, is posted. Shaun Tan makes history by winning the Kate Greenaway medal for Tales from the Inner City. The Literary Landmark status of Beauvoir, the house of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, has been rescinded. John Bolton’s book makes the papers and dominates book coverage.

Reni Eddo-Lodge is the first Black British author to top the UK book charts with Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop John Bolton’s book. Oprah picks Deacon King Kong by James McBride as her next book club title. BuzzFeed selects Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas for its July read. Kazuo Ishiguro has a new novel for 2021, Klara and the Sun. 

Claudia Rankine and Jericho Brown write new poems, commissioned to respond to this moment. 13 of the 24 National Book Critics Circle board members have resigned. The social media and book buying initiative #BlackoutBestsellerList gets coverage. Donald Trump’s niece has written a tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. The Walter Scott Prize and The Wolfson History Prize are announced. The July LibraryReads picks are out, Peace Talks by Jim Butcher tops the list. Jericho Brown, Carmen Maria Machado, and Thomas Page McBee consider “What Does Pride Mean Now?”

The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump by Mary Jordan is the book of the day, getting full court media coverage. 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand leads library holds this week. People’s Book of the Week is Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams. The next battle in publishing might be over books by conservative authors. The social media campaign #PublishingPaidMe is remaking the industry. COVID-19 book coverage stories return.

#PublishingPaidMe continues to reveal huge gaps between award-winning Black authors and debut white authors. There are seven book-related films and TV shows premiering this week, and news breaks that Gabrielle Union has optioned George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue. The Wainwright Prize longlist is out. Zadie Smith is releasing a new essay collection about the lockdown. The Internet Archive is stopping its National Emergency Library. Jane Austen's House Museum is in trouble. More antiracist reading lists.

Over a dozen antiracist titles fill the NYT and USA Today bestseller lists. In new titles, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett debuts at No. 1 on the NYT fiction list. J.K. Rowling writes a new essay. More Pride reading lists are published. Lambda Literary is hosting a series of readings and conversations to be posted on YouTube. The English PEN Translates Awards are announced. The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award announces its finalists. 

Authors Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism, and Lauren Michele Jackson, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue...and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation, lead the antiracist book conversation today. YA lit and police brutality is also a top discussion. The nominees or shortlists are out for The Shirley Jackson Award, The Anthony Award, and the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Neil Gaiman has a new picture book on the way.

Over 1,000 members of the publishing industry went on strike yesterday to protest racism. The #PublishingPaidMe movement gets more coverage. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, has a book-filled opinion piece in the NYT. Daniel Radcliffe responds to J.K. Rowling, and her deeply upset readers. A publisher insider predicts changes in the future, including fewer print ARCs. Rick Riordan is no fan of the early Percy Jackson films.

Dance Away with Me by Susan Elizabeth Phillips tops holds this week. Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins is People’s Book of the Week. The July Indie Next list is out; the top pick is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. More antiracist booklists and reports published over the weekend, including a new focus on policing. The longlists of the CWA Dagger awards are announced as is the shortlist for the Comedy Women in Print prize.

Sales figures and holds data indicate the top five in-demand antiracist titles. The International Booker Prize moves its announcement date to August 26. More Pride Month reading lists arrive. There is going to be a museum for Frankenstein. Book covers are in the news.

Hideaway by Nora Roberts tops eight new bestsellers this week. More antiracist reading lists arrive, including one from NYPL’s Schomburg Center. There are some June booklists too and a new list for Pride Month. The NYT has a report on audiobook narrators of color, the growing diversity of works, and colorblind casting. Snoop Dogg is adapting Joe Ide’s IQ series. Lovecraft County gets a new trailer.

There are more antiracist reading lists, and even more suggestions, as demand begins to create shortages. Jenna Bush Hager picks A Burning by Megha Majumdar as her June book club pick. AudioFile announces its 2020 Golden Voices. Warner Bros. makes Just Mercy free for viewing this month. The film is based on Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, a title on some of the antiracist reading lists.

There are more antiracism reading lists as well as essays and poetry. The Lammy Awards are announced: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn wins Best Lesbian Fiction and Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington wins Best Gay Fiction. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is B&N’s June book club pick.

The Nebula Awards are announced. A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker wins for Best Novel. The finalists for the Locus Awards are announced. The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin leads holds this week. There are a number of booklists responding to the protests taking place across the nation as well as booklists for Pride Month, June, and Summer Reads. How will writing and publishing change in the face of the pandemic? The Guardian and the NYT have ideas. LJ’s Day of Dialog is fully archived, and BookExpo posts videos for the Adult and Middle Grade Book Buzz sessions.

More Summer Reading lists arrive. Crime fiction is in the spotlight, as is Elin Hilderbrand. Simon & Schuster names Jonathan Karp as C.E.O. Day of Dialog is now archived for viewing. The BookExpo Adult and YA Editor’s Buzz sessions take place today. The Children’s Book & Author Dinner was last night. The National Book Festival will be online-only this year due to the pandemic.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins tops the bestseller lists this week, and sells more than half a million copies across formats. The James Beard Awards and Horn Book Awards are both announced. Author and activist Larry Kramer has died. More summer reading lists arrive. Day of Dialog is today. BookExpo’s Adult Book & Author dinner video is online.

J.K. Rowling has a new children's work, The Ickabog. Johny Pitts wins the Jhalak Prize. There is big adaptation news: Naomi Novik’s forthcoming Scholomance series gets optioned for a film; Amazon plans a series based on the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books; and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is set for a limited series. RA/CD programming videos from BookExpo are now online. LJ’s Day of Dialog is tomorrow.

Hideaway by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett is People’s Book of the Week. More summer reading lists arrive. Day of Dialog and BookExpo are this week. Middle Earth, Harry Potter, and the Omegaverse all make news. Marilynne Robinson asks “What Kind of Country Do We Want?” At least on TV, it is Julia Child week.

Bill Clinton and James Patterson are writing another thriller, The President’s Daughter. Amazon will adapt Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache books, to be called Three Pines. Kobe Bryant’s newest, Geese Are Never Swans, will release on July 21. The Romance Writers of America retires the RITA Awards. They plan a new award called The Vivian. More ideas come out about the post-pandemic book world. School Library Journal begins the “Virtual Events Calendar.”

The NYT rolls out its Summer Reading feature. Jennifer Weiner has ideas too. The Last Trial by Scott Turow heads a handful of new bestsellers this week. Much prize news arrives, including the shortlists for the two Orwell Prizes. Stephen King’s The Stand and a “mythic” director’s cut of Justice League make news. Alison Roman and Ronan Farrow are getting more coverage.

Steph Cha, Julia Phillips, Kiley Reid, Xuan Juliana Wang, and Bryan Washington are the finalists for the NYPL 2020 Young Lions Fiction Awards. Kaie Kellough, Magnetic Equator, wins 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. Numbers are in for books sales during the early part of the lockdown, there are steep drops for some categories (UP titles) and huge jumps for others (digital audio). Netflix is planning adaptations of S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co. books, and Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Richard Brautigan’s The Hawkline Monster is getting adapted for the big screen. Tom Hanks’s film Greyhound moves to Apple TV.

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards are announced, as is the Plutarch Award. Bill Gates picks his books of the summer. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld gets reviewed across the papers. The Atlantic has a new short story by Robin Sloan; it is part of the magazine's Shadowland project about conspiracy theories. Stars sign up to read Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach to help raise money for Covid-related causes.

Beach Read by Emily Henry leads holds this week. Tananarive Due talks about Black Horror. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld gets a great deal of attention. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia tops the June LibraryReads list. Charlie Jane Anders is writing a nonfiction book about writing (and it is also a memoir), publishing online in serial fashion. A new issue of Entertainment Weekly is out, featuring its Summer Books Special.

Barack and Michelle Obama read The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds for the Chicago Public Library's "Live From the Library" series and discuss the new branch of the library that will open on the campus of the Obama Presidential Center. Bryan Washington wins the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. The Buzz Book Fall/Winter edition arrives, and a new one on romances is out too. More booklists are here for Spring Books, Beach Reads, and 107 female authors to read. The long-awaited Snowpiercer debuts and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series is headed to Disney+.

The 20th Victim by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro leads the new bestseller lists. The cast is announced for the Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. James McAvoy will voice the lead. Sally Rooney’s “At The Clinic,” a short story featuring Marianne and Connell that first published in 2016, gets re-printed online. AMC has bought rights to Anne Rice’s “major literary works,” from vampires to witches. Barnes & Noble is slowly reopening. Tributes mount for Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of S. & S.

Not waiting for the big screen, Hamilton, the movie, will now debut on Disney+ this July 3. Netflix and Fandango are adapting the forthcoming Elena Ferrante novel, The Lying Life of Adults. Reese Witherspoon will star in an adaptation of Sarah Haywood’s The Cactus. Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of S. & S., has died. Daniel Mason wins the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Emma Donoghue has new fiction in The Atlantic. The NYT writes, “For Bookstore Owners, Reopening Holds Promise and Peril.”

Haruki Murakami is hosting a lockdown radio special in Japan. Joe Ide has reading and listening suggestions for those suffering quarantine insomnia. The finalists are out for The Best Translated Book Awards. The shortlist is announced for The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. NPR’s Romance review column arrives for May and EarlyWord posts it May GalleyChat Roundup. Ted Cruz is publishing One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History. A trailer is out for John Lewis: Good Trouble and Netflix offers The Witcher’s Bestiary.

The Goodbye Man by Jeffery Deaver leads holds this week. People’s Book of the week is All Adults Here by Emma Straub. Publishers Weekly issues its Summer Reads 2020 feature. San Diego Comic-Con will offer an “at-home version.” Rick Barot wins the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. Stephen King’s Revival is headed to the movies. A trailer is out for Shirley, about author Shirley Jackson.

BookExpo and BookCon announce their online schedule. PEN America also launches an all-digital Pen World Voices Festival for 2020. The NYT decides “We’ve hit peak crafting.” Andy Serkis is reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit to raise money in support of those suffering through the pandemic. Disney+ is going to create Just Beyond, based on the graphic novel series by R.L. Stine. Author Seth Grahame-Smith will write the script. Wally Lamb and Caitlin Moran see books on screen, and a long-awaited Dickens adaptation finally arrives.

Camino Winds by John Grisham tops the bestseller lists. Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, reads Duck! Rabbit! in support of Save the Children’s coronavirus efforts. Author Emily Giffin is not pleased. Books-a-Million is opening most of its stores in the U.S. Plenty of booklists arrive and a large number of excerpts too, including Christopher Paolini reading from To Sleep in a Sea of Stars.

Daniel Radcliffe reads the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Others will take part in reading the entire book on video and audio. Sally Quinn says that a character in her 1991 novel Happy Endings was inspired by Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Terminal List by Jack Carr is set for Amazon with Chris Pratt to star. Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club is headed to Netflix as the YA thriller gets adapted by the team behind The Haunting of Bly Manor. Amazon is starting a Wheel of Time book club on Twitter.

Colson Whitehead achieves a rare milestone, winning a Pulitzer for two books in a row. Stephenie Meyer announces she will publish Midnight Sun, the story of Twilight told from Edward Cullen’s point of view. Read with Jenna picks All Adults Here by Emma Straub as its May title. It is also the May Barnes and Noble book club pick. Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi as her May title. Jacqueline Woodson wins the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award; Roger Robinson wins the Ondaatje prize; and the James Beard cookbook awards nominees are announced.

The 20th Victim by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro leads holds this week. The Triangle Awards are announced; Ocean Vuong wins the fiction category for On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. More May booklists arrive as do Pennie Clark Ianniciello's pick for May and the Indie Next list for June. Some indie booktores are reopening. Lovecraft Country gets a trailer.

Becoming, the Netflix documentary about Michelle Obama’s book tour, debuts next week. The Edgar Awards are announced. The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths wins Best Novel. May best booklists arrive, as well as another for the summer. Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is headed to the movies. My Brilliant Friend gets a third season. There is a film about the translation of Dan Brown’s Inferno.

If It Bleeds by Stephen King and Walk the Wire by David Baldacci trade the top two spots on the bestseller lists. Jasmine Guillory, Beverly Jenkins, Kwana Jackson, and Alyssa Cole talk about racism in the romance industry. Joy Harjo will serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Tana French previews her next book, The Searcher. PBS NewsHour and The New York Times pick The Street by Ann Petry as their May book club title.

Sally Rooney and George M. Johnson win the buzz today. The Library of Congress starts Citizen DJ, a way to make music using its collection. Men stop reading books they do not like long before women do. R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps is headed to TV as a live-action series. Libraries during the pandemic make news.

Netflix is releasing a documentary about Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour. Faithful adaptations of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books are in the works. Meghan and Harry are working with two journalists on a biography due out in August. Newly released fiction from Simone de Beauvoir is forthcoming. ALA plans a virtual program to replace the cancelled Annual conference. The James Beard Awards will be announced on May 4. Poet Eavan Boland has died.

Camino Winds by John Grisham leads holds this week. Sea Wife by Amity Gaige (Knopf) gets some buzz. A Federal Appeals court decides literacy is a constitutionally protected right. NYPL ponders the complexities of how to re-open. Actor Joey Batey reads to his fans in “Jaskier Reads The Witcher.”

Normal People arrives on Hulu. There are reading lists for debuts and summer titles as well as LJ’s graphic novel preview. Jeremy Irons, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, and Iggy Pop are all taking part in a mass reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Draft2Digital shares news that Barnes & Noble is delaying payments to publishers for ebooks sold on the Nook platform.

Masked Prey by John Sandford leads nine new bestsellers. A new Star Wars series is in the works; it will take place in a new time line and will be “female-focused.” The NYT picks books for May. South Korean women authors are in the spotlight, as is Madeleine Albright, Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir. Time reports on the pandemic, indie bookstores, Amazon, and Bookshop.org.

The Women’s Prize Shortlist has been announced, as has the Wolff Translator’s Prize shortlist. There is much book club news, including the launch of the Goop book club. Also, a great deal of adaptation news, including an update on the Julia Quinn Bridgerton TV series. Val Kilmer, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir, is getting all kinds of buzz.

The Bram Stoker Awards are announced. The Colby Award is granted. The shortlist for the Ondaatje Prize is out. ALA releases its Most Challenged list. The NYT has cookbooks. BookPage offers publishing trends. Mo Willems designs a t-shirt to raise money to help feed healthcare workers.

Walk the Wire by David Baldacci leads holds this week. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are announced. Michelle Obama is going to read to kids during the pandemic. The International Booker Prize is postponed as is the San Diego Comic-Con. CNN reports on a new study about what children like in storybooks. Stephen King reads from If It Bleeds. Artemis Fowl will premiere on Disney+ on June 12, rather than opening in theaters. It also gets a new trailer. The publication date of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands shifts from May to August.

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri  wins the Aspen Words Literary Prize. EarlyWord posts its GalleyChat Roundup for April. In Page-to-Screen for the week, Bosch returns for a new season; there is a timely documentary; and just in time, something new to entertain kids. J.J. Abrams is planning a spinoff show based on Stephen King’s The Shining. Bouchercon has been cancelled for 2020. Germany will allow its bookstores to open next week.

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler and Magnolia Table, Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines lead the bestseller lists this week. Something To Talk About by Meryl Wilsner is the May LibraryReads top pick. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is headed to TV. Brave New World gets a trailer. There is going to be a docuseries on The Mandalorian.

After publishers and exhibitors dropped out and its location was turned into a COVID-19 hospital, BookExpo has been officially cancelled for 2020. LJ's Day of Dialog had already shifted to a free virtual event. Dune is getting all kinds of coverage. Alex Trebek is writing a memoir, so is Lena Dunham. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman seems to be coming true. The NYT writes about librarians and library staff in the wake of COVID-19.

Prize news leads the day. Akwaeke Emezi wins the 2019 Otherwise Award for Freshwater. Jess Hill wins the Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See. Italy allows bookstores to reopen. A first look image of Dune arrives. The Bookseller reports that Ingram has shut down a data breach.

Masked Prey by John Sandford (G.P. Putnam's Sons: Penguin) leads holds this week. People’s Book of the Week is It's Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker wins the Philip K. Dick Award. The NYT writes about the dangers to the comics industry. Stephen King's Salem’s Lot is headed to the movies.

Killing Eve comes back for a new season and a new Julian Fellowes show debuts. Celeste Ng, Sigrid Nunez, Emily Wilson, Ada Limón, and Valeria Luiselli are among the 2020 Guggenheim Fellows. The first big list of summer reads is out. A lost story by Frances Hodgson Burnett has been discovered. Senator Thom Tillis tells the Internet Archive (about its “National Emergency Library”) that he is "not aware of any measure under copywrite law that permits a user of copyrighted works to unilaterally create an emergency copyright act.”

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. More spring awards arrive, including The Walt Whitman Award and The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards. Patty Wong, the city librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library, has won the ALA presidency for 2021-2022. Don Winslow is everywhere. NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Stephen King, If It Bleeds. Nancy Pearl interviews Emily Nemens, The Cactus League. Hulu is adapting Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl.

The Hugo award finalists are announced. The Pulitzer Prize announcement is delayed. Many other awards make news as well. Oprah picks Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker. B&N makes news twice: the April book club title is Conjure Women by Afia Atakora and employees at one of their book distribution centers contract coronavirus.

The PEN/Faulkner award for 2020 goes to Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis. Also in award news, The Kitschies are announced. Pennie Clark Ianniciello picks The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner. J.K. Rowling tweets she has experienced coronavirus symptoms. Authors writing about their bucolic quarantine experience are experiencing backlash.

Revenge by James Patterson, Andrew Holmes leads holds this week. Publication date shifts impact budgets, LibraryReads, Indie Next, and more. C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold gets some buzz. Normal People by Sally Rooney wins the 2020 Tournament of Books. Disney releases Artemis Fowl straight to Disney+. Black Widow is moving from April to November.

James Patterson is donating half a million dollars to indie bookstores to help them through the pandemic. LeVar Burton is starting a live-streaming reading series on Twitter. More book suggestions arrive, along with LJ’s list of starred reviews for April. Dav Pilkey announces Cat Kid Comic Club, coming December 1. Amazon will adapt Janelle Brown’s Pretty Things with Nicole Kidman to star and produce. Snowpiercer gets pushed forward, to May 17; there is a new trailer for it, too. NOS4A2 season two will premiere on June 1. A new Obi-Wan Kenobi series is set for Disney+.

Reese Witherspoon picks Untamed by Glennon Doyle as her April book club title. The Sinner by J.R. Ward leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. J.K. Rowling launches Harry Potter at Home. The International Booker Prize shortlist is out. The Best Translated Book Awards longlist is out. Comics are suffering. Stephen King’s newest arrives earlier than previously scheduled. There are more April best book lists.

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore is the Read with Jenna book for April. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips is the PBS NewsHour-NYT book club title selection for the month. Baek Heena wins the Astrid Lindgren Award. The shortlist is out for the Walter Scott Prize. The Nebula awards announcement will be virtually open to the public for free and will live-stream on May 30, starting at 8 PM ET. Sally Rooney’s Normal People will air on Hulu on April 29. It has a new trailer.

Tomie DePaola, beloved creator of the award-winning Strega Nona and dozens of books for children, has died; he suffered complications after a fall. Author William Helmreich has died of coronavirus. Authors Leslie Jamison and Michael Rosen are symptomatic. The National Emergency Library gets plenty of pushback. Angie Thomas announces her next book, Concrete Rose. Samantha Irby and her new book, Wow, No Thank You: Essays, get all the buzz. The Anisfield-Wolf Books Awards are announced. Plus, plenty of adaptation news.

Texas Outlaw by James Patterson, with Andrew Bourelle, leads library holds this week. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb is People’s Book of the Week. Andy Weir has a new novel and film deal, Project Hail Mary. Meg Cabot, Spike Lee, and Bob Dylan release work online. A librarian is helping create protective equipment for hospitals using 3-D printing. There are a bevy of "best of 2020" lists. The Business Book of the Year Awards have been announced.

Hachette and Macmillan have issued statements that they will not attend BookExpo. That means all five of the biggest publishers are out. Barnes & Noble temporarily closes more than 400 stores. Three book-based shows come to TV today: Vagrant Queen, Baghdad Central, and Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon. EarlyWord updates its Diversity Titles list.

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben leads 11 new books onto the bestseller lists. Much news today about publishing and the coronavirus. The Whiting Awards are announced as is the Four Quartets Prize. Spring reading lists arrive.

ALA cancels the 2020 Annual Conference due to COVID-19. S. & S. and Harper pull out of BookExpo this year. The Associated Press reports that Book Expo still plans to go on with the show. Playwright Terrence McNally has died from coronavirus complications. Two new Jim Butcher books are on the way. LJ posts its Mystery Preview. Wonder Woman is moved to August.

Woody Allen’s memoir is suddenly published. Valeria Luiselli wins the Rathbones Folio Prize. Ruchika Tomar wins the PEN/Hemingway Award for best debut novel. The Nebula Awards will go online for this year. Amazon takes nearly a month to deliver a book now. Indies are much faster and offer local delivery. New comics come to a halt. LJ is collecting the innovative ideas libraries are coming up with in the face of the pandemic.

Ingram is deemed an essential business and remains open as Nashville shelters in place. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel leads holds this week. The British Book Awards unveils its short list. Canada Reads offers a series of five, one-hour audio programs on each of its titles. Belletrist has started a virtual book tour. LitHub starts The Virtual Book Channel.

BookExpo is postponed until July 22-26. PRH says they are still not attending. S. & S. is “reviewing its options.” The Lammys will not be held in person this June but the winners will still be announced as planned. The 2020 Windham Campbell literary prize winners are announced and the shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for best children’s book and the Kate Greenaway Medal for best illustrations in a children’s book are out. Money, science, and art are among the topics of adaptations arriving today and through next week.

Penguin Random House pulls out of BookExpo. A decision if it will even go on is expected today. The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel and Untamed by Glennon Doyle usher in 10 new bestsellers. Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and others tell the NYT about books that bring them comfort. Also in the paper, a feature on the African American Art Shaping the 21st Century.