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Tia Williams’s Seven Days in June is getting adapted for television while films and TV shows based on comics fill this weekend and beyond. Interviews are out with Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, Lisa Taddeo of Animal, Julianna Margulies of Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life, Tia Williams of Seven Days in June, and Kellye Garrett of Like a Sister. Huma Abedin, most well-known for being an aide to Hillary Clinton and formally being married to Anthony Weiner, is writing Both/And: A Life in Many Words with Simon & Schuster.

LJ releases the virtual galley guide for the 2021 American Library Association annual conference. Emma van Straaten wins the 2021 Discoveries Women’s Prize for Fiction. Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand, Freed by E L James, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith, After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes top the best seller lists. Dave Eggers new book The Every will only be available in independent bookstores. Interviews arrive with Lisa Taddeo of Animal, Poppy Jamie of Happy Not Perfect, Alex Difrancesco of Transmutation: Stories. Adaptations are in store for Dave Hutchinson’s novels, Stephen King’s Christine, and Benjamin Black’s The Black-Eyed Blonde.

Elin Hilderbrand removes Anne Frank reference in Golden Girl after complaints. Publishing Perspectives rounds up news from the 2021 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The Edelweiss Bookfest wraps up today, with speakers, author panels, and keynotes by Anthony Doerr and Seija Rankin. The Burning Blue by Kevin Cook gets a 4 star review from USA Today. Jessamyn Stanley's new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance gets a starred review. LibraryReads and Library Journal team up on read-alikes for The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Emilia Clarke’s debut comic book, M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, Volume 1 hits shelves in July. Plus, a preview and excerpt of Blood, the forthcoming memoir by Jonas Brothers.

The Edelweiss Bookfest kicks off two days of programming today. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing finalists are announced. The 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Shortlist is announced. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer gets attention. The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill Bratton and Peter Knobler gets reviewed. Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart will get a movie adaptation. Plus, Zadie Smith’s mother, Yvonne Bailey-Smith, has a debut novel, The Day I Fell Off My Island which will be published in the US in October.

The 2020 Nebula Awards were announced, with Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells winning best novel. Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark wins for best novella. Connie Willis is awarded the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson leads holds this week. There is one LibraryReads selection and four Indie Next picks publishing this week. The People "Picks" book of the week is Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. N.K. Jemisin will adapt her book series The Broken Earth Lands for Sony’s TriStar in 7-Figure Deal. And, Richard Robinson, longtime Scholastic CEO, has died.

Award news comes from The Canadian Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards, The Discovery Award, and the Grand Prix de I’Imaginaire. Margaret Atwood's Burning Questions: Essays 2004-2021 is due on March 1, 2022. Interviews with Jo Ann Beard of Festival Days, Kate Zambreno of To Write As If Already Dead, and Karen Tucker of Bewilderness. Adaptation news for Patricia Cornwell, Abraham Verghese, and Khaled Hosseini. Plus, Page to Screen titles.

Winners are announced for the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards and David Diop wins the 2021 International Booker Prize with At Night All Blood Is Black. Legacy by Nora Roberts, Shadow Storm by Christine Feehan, and The Saboteurs by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul top the best sellers lists. Interviews and conversations with: Kelsey McKinney of God Spare the Girls, Monica West of Revival Season, Dan Abrams and David Fisher of Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby, Casey McQuiston of One Last Stop, Tony Oppedisano of Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours, Carol Anderson of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Clint Smith of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, and Sinéad O’Connor of Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life. Quentin Taratino is making an adaptation of his book Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and MGM will be adapting Norman Partridge’s Dark Harvest.

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris is the June pick for B&N and GMA. Jenna Bush Hager picks Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid for June Book Club. Reese Witherspoon picks Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. Falling by T.J. Newman tops the July Indie Next List. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel and The President’s Daughter by James Patterson and Bill Clinton are the Costco buyer's picks. The 2020 Governor General's Literary Award winners have been announced. The 2021 Orwell Prize Shortlists are announced. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides gets TV series adaptation. Plus, book lists for summer reading are out. 

"Queen of the Beach Read" Elin Hilderbrand reigns over holds lists this week with Golden Girl. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris is the GMA June Book Club pick. Seven LibraryReads selections and 12 Indie Next picks publish this week. People's “Best Books of Summer 2021” has arrived. The June 2021 Earphones Award Winners are posted at Audiofile and the 2021 Indie Book Award Winners are announced. The inaugural Ultimo Prize winners for Australian poetry and short fiction are also announced. Netflix’s new releases for June includes several adaptations. Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu gets compared to True Grit and Apple lands a half-hour comedy based on M.O. Walsh’s bestselling novel, The Big Door Prize. 

Two beloved creators of children's books have died. Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many more treasured titles and Lois Ehlert, the illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the author and illustrator of Color Zoo and much more. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz and The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green are on the bestseller lists. Esquire picks “The 31 Best Books of 2021 (So Far).” June reading lists start arriving. The James Bond films will remain as theatrical releases amid the Amazon purchase of MGM.

Roxane Gay starts a new imprint with Grove Atlantic. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence win Jhalak prizes for writers of colour. Jalal Barjas wins the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2021 shortlists are announced. The CWA Dagger shortlists are also out. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs gets a 4-star review. Amy Tan reflects on her legacy. Schitt's Creek gets a book tie-in; Best Wishes, Warmest Regards will publish in October. Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about Juneteenth. Netflix takes on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Plus, the BOOK IT program from the 90’s returns as Camp BOOK IT.

The 2020 Bram Stoker Awards are announced with The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones taking the prize for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Finalists for the 2021 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards) were announced. The Omega Sci-Fi Awards winners were also announced. The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003–2020 by Salman Rushdie, and Heaven by Mieko Kawakami get reviewed. USA Today declares, "The gay royal romance novel is having a moment." Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen by Annabel Abbs will be adapted for television. Timothée Chalamet will play young Willy Wonka in a new film.  Malcolm-Jamal Warner will star and produce an adaptation of Russell Duncan’s Freedom’s Shore. Ava DuVernay’s comic adaptation of DC's Naomi is coming to The CW. Marvel's Eternals has a trailer. Plus, a cache of rare Brontë family manuscripts will be auctioned at Sotheby’s.

Legacy by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. Four LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. The People "Picks" book of the week is The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green.  Jackie Smith wins 2021 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and Alexandra Huynh has been named the new National Youth Poet Laureate. Trisha Yearwood, who will speak at ALA in June, will publish her fourth cookbook, Trisha's Kitchen : Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family, in September. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris is poised to break out this summer. Plus, John Steinbeck wrote a werewolf novel and no one is allowed to read it.

Valeria Luiselli wins the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive. The 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers finalists, Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize published shortlist, and the Photography and Moving Image Book Award winners are announced. Interviews with Bridget Collins of The Betrayals, Zakiya Dalila Harris of The Other Black Girl, Farzana Doctor of Seven, Lilly Dancyger of Negative Space, and a conversation between Mackenzie Rohan and her mother Ethel Rohan about In the Event of Contact. Doubleday announces a two-book deal with Stacey Abrams for more political thrillers. A new joint project with Bill Clinton and James Patterson, The President’s Daughter will be released on June 7. Science fiction writer and editor Don Saker, dies at the age of 62. 

The 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses shortlist and the 2020 Believer Book Award winners and finalists are announced. The Yale Review will have a new website, TYR, for literary content accessible to the public. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, That Summer by Jennifer Weiner, Yearbook by Seth Rogen, and Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish top the best seller lists. Interviews with Brandon Taylor of Filthy Animals, Maggie O’Farrell of Hamnet, and Charles Yu of Interior Chinatown. There will be an Oct 12 release date for Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever. T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Motherless Girls, discusses centering Pacific Island voices.

Amazon Publishing makes a deal with DPLA, marking the first time that ebooks from Amazon have been made available to libraries. The 2021 Beijing International Book Fair is set to run August 25-29. Finalists for The Australian Shadows Awards were announced, and The Miles Franklin Literary Award announced its 2021 longlist. The Women's Prize Trust announces its inaugural Discoveries shortlist. John Green's book of essays are reviewed and featured. Elizabeth Hinton writes an essay, adapted from her new book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Sinead O’Connor's new memoir, Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life comes out June 1st. Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn is writing her first book, How to Be a Boss Bitch. Bridgerton gets a prequel spinoff, focusing on the early years of Queen Charlotte. Plus, "Queen of the Beach Read" Elin Hilderbrand shares her favorites for the summer.

Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey finds a new publisher, Skyhorse. Pence and Conway are still to be published by Simon & Schuster while staff are still roiled. The June LibraryReads list is out, with One Last Stop by Casey McQuistonl claiming the top spot. The June LoanStars list is also out, with The Maidens by Alex Michaelides at #1. Carl Phillips has won the Jackson Poetry Prize and A. N. Wilson wins the 2021 Plutarch Award. The Christopher Bland Prize 2021 shortlist is released and the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards are announced. The speaker lineup for The US Book Show is updated. Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome gets attention and Dead Souls by Sam Riviere gets reviewed in multiple outlets. And, in huge deal, Clarivate will buy ProQuest for $5.3 billion.

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and three IndieNext picks publish this week. The June issue of Entertainment Weekly arrives with the “Summer Books Special.” People's book of the week is The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, which also gets reviewed. The Hachette Group releases a diversity update for 2020. The British Book Awards were announced with Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens winning top fiction honors. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart won best overall book of the year. The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were announced, as were the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows. Plus, the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices has launched. Finally, Evelyn Waugh’s house is on the market for $7.6M.

The 2021 African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) Nommo Awards longlists are announced and the 2020 & 2021 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards finalists are out. Posthumous success for Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground. Interviews with the following authors: Jon Mooallem of This is Chance!: The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together, Nora Zelevansky of Competitive Grieving, Julian Rubinstein of The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, and Morgan Harper Nichols of How Far You Have Come. Jessica Seinfeld announces a new cookbook Vegan, At Times. Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment joins with Jim Henson Company on the adaptation of The Conductors by Nicole Glover.

The 33rd annual Triangle Awards winners and 2021 Firecracker Award finalists are announced and Trevor Shikaze has been named the first winner of n+1’s Anthony Veasna So Prize. 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave, Project: Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, and The Premonition by Michael Lewis top the best sellers lists. Colin Kaepernick announces the Oct 12 release of a book he has edited and published, Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons and Carmen Maria Machado writes about the challenges around her latest book In the Dream House. Tawny Kitaen revealed that she was working on an autobiography in an appearance before her death.

LeVar Burton launches a new book club on the Fable app, with James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, and Jesmyn Ward as the first three featured authors. Abu Dhabi International Book Fair announces its 2021 programming. Ruth Gilligan wins the Ondaatje prize with The Butchers' Blessing. The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards were announced, along with the CAMEO Awards, UK Book Blog Awards, and the 2021 Doug Wright Awards. Elliot (owner of Barnes and Noble) will acquire Paper Source; B&N CEO James Daunt will oversee both companies. Billie Eilish and Alison Bechdel get attention. Regina King will direct and produce the feature adaptation of Bitter Root, the Image Comics series created by David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown. Plus, Lisey's Story and The Green Knight get trailers.

The U.S. Book Show, a three-day virtual conference will run from May 25-27 and includes a library track. Oprah Winfrey and Keanu Reeves are among speakers. The 2021 Aurora Awards ballot has been announced, with titles nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Billie Eilish get reviewed. Barry Jenkins speaks about directing Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Brit Bennett discusses adapting The Vanishing Half for HBO. Plus, Jodi Picoult brings Covid19 to the stage and Michael Lewis’s The Premonition gets big screen treatment.

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry leads holds this week. There are three LibraryReads selections and four Indie Next selections arriving this week. The People "Picks" book of the week is Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams picks up steam. The 2021 Christian Book Awards were announced along with the Pinnacle award going to Max Lucado. The 2021 Maine Literary Awards finalists were also announced. Paul Theroux's new book Under the Wave at Waimea will be adapted as a series. Plus, Jodi Picoult has a new pandemic-inspired book out in November.

LAMBDA Literary releases a list of May’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award shortlist is announced. Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Lucinda Franks passes away at 74. Interviews arrive featuring many authors, including Anjali Enjeti of The Parted Earth, Suzanne Simard of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, and Torrey Peters of Detransition, Baby. A new book by R. F. Kuang is on the way, to be titled Babel. The House of Marvel and DC Films are looking for Black directors for upcoming adaptation projects.

The 2021 James Tait Black Prize Shortlists and the 2021 Anthony Award Nominees have been announced. Warner Bros. searches for a Black Superman, enlisting author Ta-Nehisi Coates. An ‘Uncensored Library’ in Minecraft protects against cyber censorship and an open letter from members of Britain’s publishing industry raises issues regarding transphobia. Sooley by John Grisham, Finding Ashley by Danielle Steel, Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, What Happened to You by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey, The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell and You Are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown top best sellers lists. NYT profiles Stacey Abrams, author of While Justice Sleeps. Tor.com reveals a cover for Kerstin Hall’s Second Spear. An upcoming adaptation of the Red Sonja comic character will star Hannah John-Kamen.

Reese Witherspoon's May book club pick The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave is already in limited series development for Apple TV+ . Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian is B&N May book club selection. Julian Barnes has won the Jerusalem Prize. The 2021 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year longlist arrives, along with finalists for The 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards, and the shortlist for the Encore Award, including Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. Penguin Random House will reissue Stacy Abrams's first three novels. Sunny Hostin is buzzing for her new novel Summer Bluffs and new inclusive production company.  Stella, the World's First Talking Dog gathers more fans. Plus, Suzanne Simard's memoir, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest gets attention and a film adaptation by Amy Adams.

Jenna Bush Hager selects Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead as the 'Read with Jenna' May Book Club Pick while GMA picks Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann for their book pick. May's EarlyWord galleychat is today, to avoid conflict with LJ's Day of Dialog happening on Thursday. The 'Now Read This' Book Club is winding down. The Women’s Prize for Fiction announced its shortlist, which includes books by authors Brit Bennett, Susanna Clarke, and Yaa Gyasi. The 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award longlist has arrived along with the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards, the Minnesota Book Awards, and the Oregon Book Awards. Ten Speed Press (Random House) has launched a new imprint, 4 Color Books, with Bryant Terry, who edits Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora due out in October. Laura Hankin will adapt and executive produce her forthcoming novel, A Special Place for Women as a TV series, while Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago will get series treatment by Showtime.  Marvel reveals first taste of Eternals, plus a look at its full upcoming movie slate. 

21st Birthday by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro leads holds this week. The People "Picks" book of the week is Three Dreamers by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Six LibraryReads selections and thirteen IndieNext picks arrive this week. Pennie's final pick for Costco is When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson. The top ten reader-selected finalists in each category of the 2021 Locus Awards are announced. Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony in June. The ReLit Award Winners for 2021 are announced and the May 2021 Earphones Award Winners are out at Audiofile. Watchmen creator Alan Moore will publish a five-volume series of epic fantasy novels entitled ‘Long London’ due out in 2024. Plus, a group of authors from around the world have come together to fundraise for Indian COVID relief. 

Authors Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, Tess Gerritsen, and Mary Robinette Kowal form "DisneyMustPay" task force to pay for outstanding money owed from adaptations done with their work. The 2021 Edgar Award winners and the 2021 ReLit Awards shortlist are announced. Interviews abound with Casey Wilson of The Wreckage of My Presence, Hayley Mills of Forever Young, Maggie Shipstead of Great Circle, Kate Summerscale of The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story, Vivian Gornick of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time, Darryl Cunningham of Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful, Cassandra Lane of We Are Bridges, Mary Alice Monroe of The Summer of Lost and Found, Jenny Lee of Anna K Away, and Imbolo Mbue of How Beautiful We Were.

The first Mexican virtual convention of speculative fiction Mexicona, launches Premio Imaginación y Futuro with an awards list. Author Zhao Lei, of The Stars wins the 11th Chinese Nebula Awards and Julia Baird of Phosphorescence wins the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Also, the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced. More tension for Simon & Schuster as the recent book deals with former members of the Trump administration draw protests. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci, Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants by George W. Bush, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, and World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever top the best sellers list. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is getting turned into a musical by Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine. Christina Jackson and Y’lan Noel to star in an adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s book The Spook Who Sat By The Door. 

W.W. Norton takes Blake Bailey's biography of Philip Roth out of print and cuts ties with the author. Canisia Lubrin wins the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. The 2020 ReLit Awards shortlist honoring the best Canadian books published by independent presses is out while the Edgar Awards will be announced tomorrow. The June Indie Next List is out and Joshua Henkin's Morningside Heights claims the top spot. The Other Wes Moore will be adapted for the big screen and Netflix releases its summer lineup, including several adaptations. Plus, Gabrielle Union will release a new memoir in September.

Nominees for the reader-selected 2020 This Is Horror Awards and 2021 Seiun Awards  (the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Awards) are announced. Danielle Evans has won the 5th annual Joyce Carol Oates Prize. The Royal Society of Literature releases the Ondaatje Prize Shortlist. Stacey Abrams talks about her forthcoming novel, While Justice Sleeps. Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength arrives next week and Rachel Cusk gets reviewed. Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri continues to get coverage. Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir will premiere on May 3 as part of PBS American Masters series. Plus, Oscars TV ratings hit record-low.

 John Grisham leads holds this week with Sooley. People's book of the week is Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light by Maryanne O’Hara. Nomadland, based on the book by Jessica Bruder nets 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director' Ocsars. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners are announced, including Dr. Iman Mersal for her book In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat. Two LibraryReads selections arrive this week along with four IndieNext picks. Netflix adaptations of Shadow and Bone, based on the novels by Leigh Bardugo and Things Heard and Seen, based on the book All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage are buzzing. Malcolm Gladwell's new book Bomber Mafia arrives this week. Plus, Martha Stewart will release her 99th cookbook in September.

The International Booker Prize 2021 shortlist, 2021 Stella Award, and 2021 Ignyte Awards Finalists are announced. Vanity Fair provides an excerpt for Stacey Abrams’s new novel, While Justice Sleeps. Justice League Infinity will be digitally released and Spider-Man will air on Disney+. New release dates are announced for Michaela Coel’s Misfits: A Personal Manifesto in September and Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows on Nov 2, 2021. Drew Barrymore announces her first cookbook, Rebel Homemaker. HBO Max finds great success in film adaptations of comics and associated titles. New X-Men comics at Marvel. NPR’s Fresh Air features Sacha Naspini’s novel Nives.

Festival of Books features Native American authors Rigoberto González, Danielle Geller, and more. The Wolfson History Prize announced, and Louise Erdrich is named the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner. Margaret Wander Bonanno, author of several Star Trek books, dies at the age of 71. Ocean Prey by John Sandford, The Devil’s Hand by Jack Carr, On the House by John Boehner, and Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe top best sellers lists. Covers are revealed for Reckless Girls and Flowers for the Sea. New DC comics to cover new Superman and Supergirl series. The director of Game of Thrones is adapting Stone Junction by Jim Dodge for television.

The uncut version of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground finally gets a release and reviews. The LA Festival of Books continues this week. Dutton releases a posthumous interview with Eric Jerome Dickey for the release of his final novel The Son of Mr. Suleman.  Katherine Heiny shines with Early Morning Riser and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart continues to get attention. Elizabeth Acevedo will release her first novel for adults in 2023 while Michaela Coel will publish debut novelin September. Downton Abbey 2 will hit theaters in December. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gets a new trio of directors at the helm, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings gets a new trailer. Plus, a reported $2M book deal for Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

A Gambling Man by David Baldacci leads holds this week. The LA Festival of Books kicks off with awards. Simon & Schuster won't distribute book by officer who shot Breonna Taylor. Four Indie Next picks publish this week. Michelle Zauner's memoir, Crying in H Mart, is out this week. Godzilla vs. Kong has another monster weekend, and Oscar coverage begins in earnest. The May issue of Entertainment Weekly arrives, and the People "Picks" book of the week is The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth.  Plus, Agatha Christie’s Wallingford home is on the market for £2.75m.

The new trailer for Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad gets a great deal of coverage for a May 14 release. The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Color and Sheikh Zayed Book Award shortlists are announced. Also, the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize shortlist is announced. Oprah Winfrey’s upcoming book tour and April 27 release of new book What Happened to You makes news. Terry Crews discusses the new audiobook Stronger Together, co-written with his wife with lessons from his life and marriage. Phoebe Robinson, author of Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes, speaks about the lack of diversity in publishing. A television series based on Greyboy: Finding Blackness In A White World is being developed. Concerns are being raised about a police officer’s book regarding the killing of Breonna Taylor. Lastly, there is an interview with Lawrence P. Jackson, author of a biography on Chester B. Himes on the importance of Black crime writers.

The 2021 RWA Vivan Finalists are announced by the Romance Writers of America. Also, the 2021 Whiting Award Winners are announced. Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile top the best sellers lists. News breaks about the “Bridgerton effect” on the romance genre and an adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Prince Philip’s Century by Robert Jobson gets an early release. The Root shares newly released books that could help readers heal from trauma. There is a cover reveal of Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson. Lauren Hough talks about Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing and Morgan Jerkins talks about Caul Baby.

The 2021 Hugo Award Finalists are announced including Best Novel. Rep. John Lewis’ Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation will be released on July 13, almost a year after his death while Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground, will finally come out in its original form on April 20th.  J.K. Rowling will release a new children’s book, The Christmas Pig in October. Natalie Portman will headline HBO's adaptation of Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment and The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty continues to get attention. Plus, Bridgerton is renewed for two more seasons.  

Jason Reynolds is set as the inaugural Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week. Fourth Estate and William Collins will introduce a modern classics list featuring titles from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anthony Doerr, and more. Ottessa Moshfegh’s next novel, Lapvona, will be published by Penguin next summer. Oscar-winning director Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard announce The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family, to be released in October. AC/DC singer Brian Johnson’s memoir The Lives of Brian drops this fall. Frank Marshall and director Barry Sonnenfeld will partner to adapt Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley into a 2D animated feature.  Joe Cornish will direct the adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic Starlight and Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation will hit theaters on June 18th. Plus, a review of World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, in which the NYT asks "How Do You Write an Anthony Bourdain Book Without Anthony Bourdain?"
 

Ocean Prey by John Sandford tops holds this week. Four LibraryReads selections arrive along with one IndieNext pick. The Orwell Prize Longlists are revealed. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Nomadland continue to garner film awards.  John Boehner's memoir On the House: A Washington Memoir gets attention and Paula McLain's When the Stars Go Dark is People's 'Pick of the Week.' 

The New York Public Library announces the Young Lions Fiction Award finalists, the Guggenheim Fellows of 2021 are announced, and the PEN America Literary Award Winners were celebrated last evening. Emma Cline, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Stephen Graham Jones, and Elizabeth McCracken get focused attention. Vanity Fair writes more about the Pence book deal and the other Trump books that are in the works. Nine new adaptations hit screens this weekend and into the week ahead. A trailer is out for The Woman in the Window.

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman tops the bestseller lists. EarlyWord’s April GalleyChat is posted. S. & S. plans to publish Mike Pence’s autobiography. He now has a two-book deal. The April Earphones Awards are out, as are the April Loan Stars picks. Torrey Peters discusses the Women’s Prize nomination. Granta offers "The Best Of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2." Worldcon moves to December. There is cast news for the Apple TV+ adaptation of Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent and Amazon is adapting The Peripheral by William Gibson.

Deesha Philyaw wins the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Northern Spy by Flynn Berry is the April Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. ALA released the Top 10 Most Challenged Books this week offering a sobering snapshot of censorship in America.  Brandi Carlile's memoir Broken Horses continues to get raves while Dave Grohl will release a memoir in October. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Sympathizer will be developed as a TV series with Park Chan-wook to direct. Plus, a rare 1938 Superman comic sells for record breaking $3.25M.

The Today show's 'Read with Jenna' book club pick for April is Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney. James McBride's Deacon King Kong wins inaugural Gotham Prize. The City We Became by N.K Jemisin wins the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel. Helen Oyeyemi gets attention with her new novel, Peaces. Rachel Kushner is back with a book of essays, and Godzilla vs. Kong is still smashing records. Fonda Lee writes about ARC's and equity. Readers are picking up Hemingway again with six of his novels in the top 20 Amazon Movers and Shakers. Plus, HBO announces "The Iron Anniversary," a month-long celebration in honor of the 10th anniversary of the premiere of A Game of Thrones. 

Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez tops the holds lists this week. The 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners have been announced, including Deacon King Kong by James McBride. Eight LibraryReads picks arrive this week along with five Indie Next selections. People picks Red Island House by Andrea Lee as its book of the week.  Jenny Lawson gets 4 stars from USA Today. Philip Roth: The Biography gets reviewed. Haruki Murakami's First Person Singular comes out this week. Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman earn SAG awards for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Plus, Pennie's final pick before retiring, Remember by Lisa Genova, is in April's Costco Connection.

Ebony magazine publishes “From ‘Sula’ to ‘Luster’: Fiction’s New School of Black Woman Heroines.” Diana Gabaldon announces she has completed her ninth Outlander book, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. More April book picks arrive: Oprah Daily offers poetry selections, EW names great romances from March, and Elle showcases an early look at Matrix by Lauren Groff. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Good Company, and Jenny Lawson, Broken (in the best possible way), get attention. 

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline leads this week’s best sellers list. The winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Awards are announced. April best books list begin to arrive. Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden gets more focused attention. Oprah interviews Richard Wright's grandson about The Man Who Lived Underground. Randall Park will adapt the graphic novel Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine.

The Booker International Longlist 2021 has been announced. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead is the top Indie Next pick for May. Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia is the GMA April Book Club pick. John Lewis’s posthumous new graphic novel, Run: Book One will come out in August, while Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney arrives next week. Plus, Ken Follett's The Evening and the Morning has been optioned for series development.

HarperCollins plans to buy Houghton Mifflin’s Trade Publishing Unit. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces its 2021 Shortlist. Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia continues to get attention. Philip Roth: The Biography is out. Senator Tammy Duckworth, Every Day is a Gift, inspires. Netflix releases the Shadow and Bone trailer. Plus, Starz cancels Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

'The Red Book' by James Patterson and David Ellis tops this week's holds list. Two LibraryReads selections arrive this week along with three Indie Next selections. Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard is People's 'Pick of the Week.'  Tributes pour in for Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry. George R.R. Martin signs a massive deal with HBO. Scholastic pulls book by Dav Pilkey for 'passive racism'. Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge gets attention. Plus, Sarah Maas, A Court of Silver Flames, will adapt her series for Hulu.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell wins for fiction. Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner wins for nonfiction. The Dublin Literary Award 2021 Shortlist is announced as is the shortlist for The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. O: The Oprah Magazine has a report on the censorship history Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground, Native Son, and Black Boy. A new edition of Lord of the Rings will include art by J.R.R. Tolkien. New booklists arrive and there is a great deal of casting news for forthcoming adaptions.

Carmen Maria Machado wins the Rathbones Folio Prize for In the Dream House: A Memoir. In more award news, the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Career Achievement Winners are announced, the shortlist is out for the 2021 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and the Producers Guild of America honors the book-based Nomadland with its top prize. Another adaptation, The Queen's Gambit, also wins. Speaking of winning, Win by Harlan Coben starts at No. 1 on both the NYT Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list. Liane Moriarty’s forthcoming Apples Never Fall has already sold adaptation rights.

Jessica Goudeau, After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, and William G. Thomas III,  A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War named winners of the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. NAACP announces winners in the literary category, including Barack Obama, A Promised Land and Walter Mosley, The Awkward Black Man. Paris Review gets an new editor. Variety’s executive editor to pen nonfiction book on reality TV show The Apprentice. NYT interviews Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice. Plus, Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know, writes an essay for Time.

The Audie Award winners are announced and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor, takes the top prize. More authors speak about anti Asian-American bias. News is out about Susan Orlean’s On Animals. LitHub and Kimpton Hotels partner on a book club for travelers. CBC has read-alikes for Hench. Eater has a guide to 17 cookbooks for Spring.

The Bounty by Janet Evanovich & Steve Hamilton leads holds this week. Three LibraryReads selections arrive this week along with four Indie Next choices. The April issue of Entertainment Weekly is out. Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng and others are collaborating on a pandemic novel to be titled Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering. Variety has the full list of Writers Guild Award Winners, including Netflix’s win in Adapted Longform for The Queen’s Gambit, based on the novel by Walter Tevis.

Library groups, authors, bookstores, and more have been speaking out against a recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and the recent murders in Atlanta, including pieces in the L.A. Times by Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay, and Sanjena Sathian, Gold Diggers, and interviews with Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings. Forthcoming book news includes Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson, Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands by Linda Ronstadt, and Child of Light by Terry Brooks. Joe Pickett, a 10-episode series based on the C.J. Box novels, is in the works. Plus, some adaptations out this week are City of Lies, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and The Runaway Bunny.

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson starts at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list. Other new nonfiction titles debuting on bestsellers lists include Everything Will Be Okay by Dana Perino and How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera. Forthcoming book news includes the first English translation of Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts: Character Files, a memoir from renowned sports agent Rich Paul, and a book of essays from comedian and actress Iliza Shlesinger. The shortlist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is up. City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit by Elmore Leonard will be adapted as a series for FX by the creators of Justified, and Warner Bros. and DC Films will adapt the comic Hourman as a feature film. Plus, the American Booksellers Association calls for the break up of Amazon.

Oprah's latest Book Club focuses on the four Gilead novels by Marilynne Robinson: Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack. The April book club pick from BuzzFeed is Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia. Nicole Krauss has won the 2021 Sami Rohr Inspiration Award for Fiction. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch will narrate the audiobook version of Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn. The forthcoming In the Heights: Finding Home will look at Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway debut. Plus, the NYT speaks with a woman who recently returned a book to the Queens Public Library in New York—it was 63 years overdue.

The April Library Reads list is up, and the top pick is The Intimacy Experiment by Rosie Danan. The Year of Peril: America in 1942 by Tracy Campbell wins the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, and the finalists for the Nebula Awards and the Lambda Literary Awards are out. In forthcoming book news, actor Idris Elba is working on several children's books, and Hip-Hop (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano is due out Oct. 5. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel gets a 4-star review from USA Today. Plus, see a trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Win by Harlan Coben leads library holds this week. Other titles in demand include Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs, The Dating Plan by Sara Desai, and Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson. The People "Picks" book of the week is We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker. In awards news, Blowout by Rachel Maddow won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album, and the USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which honor the authors and directors of adaptations, go to Nomadland and The Queen’s Gambit. The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin has been optioned for series development. Plus, information about $135 million in relief funding that the NEH will distribute to libraries, archives, academic institutions, and more. 

Zack Snyder's Justice League, the four-hour director's cut of the 2017 film based on the DC Comics superhero team, premiers on HBO Max next week. In other news, a feature based on Writers & Lovers by Lily King, a series based on City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab, and a limited series of Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner are all in the works. Books getting positive reviews include Her Here by Amanda Dennis, You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becke, and The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. Plus, a look at legislation in progress in Maryland regarding ebooks and public libraries.

Life After Death by Sister Souljah debuts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list. Other new titles on fiction bestseller lists this week include Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, Later by Stephen King, and Dark Sky by C.J. Box. Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff and Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson are new to the nonfiction bestseller lists. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis, a new release about Amazon, gets positive reviews from the L.A. Times and the NYT, while The Washington Post digs into Amazon's ebook policies and how they're impacting libraries. In awards news, the 2021 Shortlist Finalists for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize are announced, with Danielle Evans, Jenny Offill, Darin Strauss, and Lysley Tenorio up for the $50,000 prize; and the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction is also out. Adaptation news includes series in the works for Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor.

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw wins the 2020 Story Prize, which awards a $20,000 prize to collections of short fiction. Author Norton Juster, best known for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line, has died at age 91. The Off-Broadway opening for Blindness, an immersive audio adaptation of the book by José Saramago, is set for April 2. Adaptations in the works include an animated series based on the graphic novel series Slam! co-creted by Pamela Ribon and Veronica Fish, and a series based on The Wives by Tarryn Fisher. Plus, the Loanstars April list is up, and EarlyWord's GalleyChat for March is out.

The works of Octavia E. Butler have have seen a resurgence in popularity, most recently with news that a pilot for an adaptation of her 1979 novel Kindred is set for FX. In other adaptation news, The Queen's Gambit will see a stage musical adaptation, and Daniel Friedman’s Buck Schatz trilogy has been optioned for a limited series. In forthcoming book news, Alyssa Cole is teaming with illustrator ONeill Jones on the graphic novel Reject Squad, which is due out in 2024. Plus, ALA outlines information about the $5 billion Build America's Libraries Act.

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn leads library holds this week. Other titles in demand include Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert, Fast Ice by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, and Transient Desires by Donna Leon. The People "Picks" book of the week is Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. The prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters has added 33 new members, honoring several writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joy Harjo, and Sigrid Nunez. The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin wins the 2020 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. Plus, after more than 35 years since Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to adapt The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub, it's finally in the works as a series.

Tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King will publish All In: An Autobiography in August. Other forthcoming book news includes the first print volume of the romance webcomic Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe, and a a graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's short story Chivalry. Torrey Peters will write and produce the series adaptation Detransition, Baby, and other adaptions in the works include The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey, The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa, and Gun Love by Jennifer Clemen. Adaptations out this week include My Salinger Year, based on the book by Joanna Rakoff, and Chaos Walking, based on The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. Plus, a new Black studies book series is being established at Columbia University Press.

The NYT Audio Fiction top bestseller for March is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. New releases hitting the fiction bestseller lists this week include The Kaiser's Web by Steve Berry, Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke, and Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning. In forthcoming book news, Joe Exotic is working on Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir, and Joy Williams will publish her first novel since 2000 with Harrow. Keanu Reeves has a new comic book series, BRZRKR, with the first issue out this week. Plus, Rebekah Taussig will co-write and executive produce the series adaptation of her memoir Sitting Pretty and Gore Verbinski will direct a feature adaptation of Sandkings by George R.R. Martin.

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel is getting a lot of buzz—it's Reese Witherspoon's Book Club selection for March, gets a good review in The Washington Post, and she's profiled in Esquire and appears on the Reading Women podcast. For its book club, Good Morning America picks Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. In awards news, the five finalists for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction have been announced, finalists for the 41st annual L.A. Times Book Prizes are out, and more. Action Bronson has a new book, F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow: A True Story, coming in April. Sister Souljah shares why she waited 22 years to write Life After Death as a follow-up to The Coldest Winter Ever. Plus, Disney's 20th Television picked up the rights to We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, which debuted this week.

What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster is getting a lot of buzz this week—it's the March Read With Jenna pick, the NYT has a favorable review, and Coster is interviewed by several media outlets. The Barnes & Noble Book Club selection is Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan, and its YA Book Club pick is Wings of Ebony by J. Elle. The PBS NewsHour/NYT book club selects Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. Lots of lists are up highlighting the best books of March. There's forthcoming book news on You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi and You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn. Plus, the documentary Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, about the comic book artist known for creating Hellboy, is in the works.

Dark Sky by C.J. Box leads library holds this week. Other titles in demand include Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Affair by Danielle Steel, and Later by Stephen King. New books out this week include the top LibraryReads pick of the month, The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, and the top Indie Next choice, We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker. The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction is out. The March pick for the Vox book club is The Power by Naomi Alderman. In adaptation news, Nomadland, based on the book by Jessica Bruder, won the Golden Globe for best picture drama, and Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a Superman feature.

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, and After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau are among the books on the 2021 shortlists for the Lukas Prizes from the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Adaptations coming out this week include Cherry, based on the book by Nico Walker, Moxie, based on the book by Jennifer Mathieu, and The Mauritanian, based on Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi. BuzzFeed Book Club's March pick is Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll. Plus, the official trailer for The Underground Railroad, based on the book by Colson Whitehead, is out, as is a premier date: May 14.

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas debuts at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list the USA Today Best-Selling Books list. In nonfiction, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates starts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 3 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list. Former Beatle Paul McCartney will publish The Lyrics, a memoir of sorts with more than 900 pages across two volumes and a list price of $100, this fall. The longlist for the 2021 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is out. Adaptations in the works include The Silence by Don DeLillo, The Killer by Alexis Nolent, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez, and more.

Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on Monday at the age of 101. He'll be remembered for his San Francisco bookstore City Lights, for inspiring many other independent publishers with his press City Lights Books, and for his role in the Beat poetry movement. Hillary Clinton is teaming with Louise Penny to write the political thriller State of Terror. The Audio Publishers Association announced finalists for the 2021 Audie Awards, including the Audiobook of the Year. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and Flight of the Diamond Smugglers by Matthew Gavin Frank are getting a lot of buzz in reviews this week. Plus, a series adaptation based on the series of books featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins by Walter Mosley is in the works, author Brian Selznick is writing an animated adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a teaser is out for Jupiter’s Legacy, and more adaptation news.

The Horror Writers Association announced the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards finalists, which include The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, True Story by Kate Reed Petty, and many more. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and DIE by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans are among the winners of the British Fantasy Society's 2020 British Fantasy Awards. The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen is getting a lot of buzz in reviews this week. Plus, adaptation news about the Eternity Springs series by Emily March, The Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins, Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll, and more.

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke leads holds this week, while other titles in high demand include The Kaiser's Web by Steve Berry, Love at First by Kate Clayborn, Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh, and Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning. LibraryReads selections out this week include Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers and The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan. People's "Picks" book of the week is Send for Me by Lauren Fox. Adaptations in the works include updates of The Running Man by Stephen King and The 39 Steps by John Buchan.

The Poetry Society of America named N. Scott Momaday its 2021 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. The shortlist of nominees for the 2020 BSFA Awards from the British Science Fiction Association includes The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Club Ded by Nikhil Singh, and more. Brit Bennett, Amanda Gorman, and Ijeoma Oluo are among the emerging leaders on the Time 100 Next list. New adaptations in the works include We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal, The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton, and Big Vape by Jamie Ducharme. Adaptations out this week include Nomadland, Mafia Inc., Superman & Lois, and more.

The finalists for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize are Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa, Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, and If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan. New fiction bestsellers include Faithless in Death by J. D. Robb and The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, and new nonfiction bestsellers include Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann and Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad. To honor what would have been Toni Morrison’s 90th birthday, the NYT offers suggestions on where to start with her books. Plus, Mindy Kaling's production company is working on a TV adaptation of Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian.

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey, The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels, and I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C. James, are the 2021 Southern Book Prize winners. Finalists for the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's 2021 Compton Crook Award are out. What to recommend to patrons waiting to borrow A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas, the top hold of the week. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer and screenwriter David Gilbert will adapt The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall, the recent biography on James Beard. Plus, the Authors Guild sent a letter to the new administration calling for, among other things, the creation of a new Federal Writers Project.

The March Library Reads list is up, and the top pick is The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. Nazima Abdillahi shares why she founded Muslim Voices in Publishing. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has a new four-hour series premiering tonight on PBS that's based on his book The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. Plus, Reese Witherspoon is expanding her book club with a four-episode cooking show called Eat the Book. It will feature Reese's Book Club pick authors, including Tembi Locke and Delia Owens, and premiers Feb. 18 on YouTube.

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas leads holds this week. Other titles in demand include Missing and Endangered by J. A. Jance, A Fatal Lie by Charles Todd, and Relentless by Mark Greaney. Two books highlighted by both LibraryReads and Indie Next come out this week: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey and First Comes Like by Alisha Rai. In adaptation news, there's a new trailer for Zack Snyder's Justice League, and New Pictures is adapting The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale as a TV series.

A series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Overstory by Richard Powers is in the works at Netflix, with Hugh Jackman and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss serving as executive producers. There's a lot of other adaptation news as well, including a look at why there are so many book to screen adaptations currently underway. This week sees the release of a few completed adaptations, including To All the Boys: Always and Forever, French Exit, and The Luminaries. Audiobook producer RBmedia has acquired the audiobook publishing business and catalog of the Spanish company Booka. Plus, remembering sci-fi writer and editor James E. Gunn, who died late last year.

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah debuts at No. 1 on the NYT fiction bestsellers list and the USA Today list, while Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain tops the NYT nonfiction list and is at No. 8 on the USA Today list. The finalists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards are out, with winners to be announced April 8. The Story Prize Spotlight Award, honoring an exceptional short story collection, goes to Inheritors by Asako Serizawa. There is adaptation news about the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna, and more. Plus, lots of buzz about Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins.

The 2021 University of North Texas Rilke Prize, which honors emerging poets, goes to Kiki Petrosino for White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia. The Loan Stars list for March arrives, and The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is the top pick. Ample adaptation news includes the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's Old, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, plus new details on filming for the next season of Outlander. Books receiving a lot of buzz include No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood and Unfinished: A Memoir by Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

The 2021 Dublin Literary Award longlist is up, and features 49 books nominated by librarians from around the world. Among those honored are The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. ALA's 2021 Reading List is out, highlighting the best books from eight fiction genres for adult readers. The class-action lawsuit against Amazon over ebook pricing now includes the Big Five publishers as defendants, added as "co-conspirators" after an amended complaint was filed. Plus, lots of adaptations are in the works, including plans for Falling by T.J. Newman, Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, and The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.

Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb tops hold lists this week. The March Indie Next list is up, and the No. 1 pick is We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker. The February Barnes and Noble book club pick is Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan. Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen, My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee, and Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad are getting a lot of buzz. Plus, Samantha Irby is one of the writers working on the upcoming Sex and the City reboot.

Deacon King Kong by James McBride wins ALA's 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs wins the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The RUSA/CODES Book and Media Awards are also announced. Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, will publish the memoir Beautiful Things on April 6. Grey's Anatomy fans will want to bookmark How to Save A Life, the forthcoming book from Lynette Rice that's based on 80 interviews with those involved in the show. Time has a special project, "The Renaissance Is Black," which features an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, several books as part of "The 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance," and more. Salma Hayek’s production company is developing A Boob’s Life by Leslie Lehr as a series. Plus, a video game that lets you use authors like Saeed Jones, Jia Tolentino, and Tony Tulathimmute as fighters.

Penguin Random House will publish a young readers edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama on March 2. The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born and Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson lead the NYT Best Sellers and the USA Today Best-Selling Books lists. The 2021 United States Artists Fellows were announced, and among those honored are 8 writers, including Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Danez Smith, and Ocean Vuong. A new podcast about library workers, librarypunk, has launched. Former Baltimore Ravens player Jason Brown discusses Centered: Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters on The Today Show.

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is Reese Witherspoon's February book club pick. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones is the GMA February book club pick. The longlist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is out, as are nominees for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards, which includes a large literary category. Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO, but will stay involved as executive chairman, of Amazon. NetGalley, along with its parent company Firebrand, have been sold to the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Media Do. George R.R. Martin says he wrote a whole lot of The Winds of Winter last year, but adds, "I will make no predictions on when I will finish." Plus, Ken Burns has a documentary about Ernest Hemingway in the works.

Jenna Bush Hager selects two books for her February "Read with Jenna" book club: Send for Me by Lauren Fox and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. In other book club news, New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard has launched his own club, and Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is this month's PBS NewsHour/NYT pick. The February Earphones Award winners are up at AudioFile. The New York Public Library has launched the Woodson Project, featuring book lists, events, and more, to honor Black History Month. Plus, the forthcoming novel The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, which is due out June 15, has been optioned for a TV series.

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah leads holds this week. Other titles in high demand include The Survivors by Jane Harper, Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman, Girl A by Abigail Dean, and more. PopSugar picks The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson for its February book club, and Luster by Raven Leilani is Vox's February book club selection. The Authors Guild, the National Writers Union, and others sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking it to block the sale of Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House. Following news of her death, Cicely Tyson's memoir Just as I Am hit No. 1 on Amazon, and also sold out of copies available there.

Actress Cicely Tyson, whose memoir Just as I Am was released this week, died yesterday at age 96. With massive demand following her reading at Joe Biden's inauguration, poet Amanda Gorman's three unreleased books will see a print run of one million copies each. Entertainment Weekly has an excerpt from Billy Summers by Stephen King, which is due out Aug. 3. Lala Kent of The Vanderpump Rules has a memoir, Give Them Lala, coming May 4. Adaptations out this week include Finding You, based on There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones and Firefly Lane, based on the book by Kristin Hannah. Plus, the graphic novel The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag will be adapted as an animated musical for Netflix.

Actor Seth Rogen's first book, Yearbook, is due out May 11, and his mother provided a statement for the press release. Moneyball and The Big Short author Michael Lewis has a forthcoming pandemic novel, The Premonition, while The End of October author Lawrence Wright has a nonfiction pandemic book coming called The Plague Year. More forthcoming book news includes work from Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, The View co-host Sunny Hostin, and others. Poet Amanda Gorman will read at the Super Bowl. Plus, news on upcoming adaptations of Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, and more.

The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey wins the 2020 Costa Book of the Year award. The forthcoming book The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon has been optioned for a series by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton's new production company. Other adaptations in the works include Outlawed by Anna North, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more. Plus, the Library of Congress receives a $15 million grant to improve diversity programs.

Nominees for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Awards are out, and include When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole, These Women by Ivy Pochoda, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch, and many more. See the winners of the Alex Awards, the Printz Award, and all the other 2021 ALA youth media award honorees. Forthcoming book news includes an essay collection edited by Tarana Burke, an instructional tome on talking dogs, and the Dragonlance trilogy. Plus, HBO Max is looking to develop a live-action Harry Potter series.

Finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards are out and include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Memorial by Bryan Washington, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, and more. The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born leads holds this week. The People "Picks" book of the week is American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser. Plus, reviews and more buzz for Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion.

HBO is working on a series adaptation of Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R. R. Martin, a prequel to Game of Thrones. The 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize longlist is out and includes Just Us by Claudia Rankine, The Actual by Inua Ellams, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, among others. The White Tiger, Penguin Bloom, and Resident Alien are some of the adaptations premiering this week. In more adaptation news, Bridgerton, based on the series by Julia Quinn, is getting a second season.

22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman made headlines—and book sales—following her reading at Joe Biden's inauguration. New releases on the NYT and USA Today bestsellers lists include The Scorpion's Tail by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, and more. Nominees for the 2021 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize and the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award are out. Plus, buzz for The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura, Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor, and others.

The February LibraryReads list is announced, and the top choice is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. The Gotham Book Prize announces the finalists for its first $50,000 award, which honors New York City-based books. After becoming friends with fellow stutterer Joe Biden, 13-year-old Brayden Harrington now has a book deal, with the picture book Brayden Speaks Up due out in Aug. See the trailer for The Luminaries, based on the book by Eleanor Catton, which premiers Feb. 14. Books set for TV and film adaptations include The Whistler by John Grisham, Libra by Don DeLillo, The Walled City by Ryan Graudin, and more.