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Three adaptations or bookish shows air today. Some buzzy trailers debut. Stephen King reviews Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman. Alan Moore is retiring.

Under Currents by Nora Roberts tops eight new bestsellers this week. Rosewater by Tade Thompson wins the Arthur C. Clarke award. An essay by Langston Hughes not seen for decades gets republished. Gossip Girl gets a reboot.

The Emmy nominations are out. Game of Thrones takes the crown. Colson Whitehead continues to get focused attention and praise. A variety of booklists suggest midsummer reading, from moon books to thrillers featuring children in peril.

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead wins the day. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta is making noise. Some notable sites look at books for the month and books forthcoming. The Shirley Jackson Awards and the ITW Thriller Awards are announced. The Saturn Award nomination list is out.

From a Mexican family fleeing cartel violence in Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt to society panicked by a murderous robot in Joanna Kavenna's Zed, these are masterly stories of facing change. 

National Book Foundation honorees, Man Booker Prize and International Prize claimants, and New York Times best-selling authors in fiction and nonfiction combine to create a long list of top reading for January 2020. 

Featuring top authors like Robyn Carr, Charlaine Harris, and Danielle Steel, plus Karin Slaughter and Lee Child writing as a team. 

Revisiting World War II, the fate and impact of two war criminals, and social justice history involving landmark ACLU cases and affirmative action. 

The New Girl by Daniel Silva leads holds this week but The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead dominates book coverage. New summer booklists appear as The Guardian considers the evolution of the genre. Also, the paper looks at the science behind audiobooks. Paper Girls is headed to Amazon

Four bookish films/TV shows hit screens today and through next week. New booklists survey great audiobooks, action thrillers, and foodie titles. Libraries are told to destroy copies of Naomi Wolf’s Outrages.

A troubling, violent, plot-driven drama focusing on far-right politics supported by corruption and murder, this intense, open-ended novel that should carry a "To be continued" message; mystery and true crime aficionados will delight in piecing together the puzzle in Edgar winner Gaylin’s deliciously twisty novel

A wide range of gardeners with all levels of experience and abilities will benefit from this sensible book; readers interested in exploring botany, the history, importance, and uses of plants, and ways to engage with the natural world will enjoy this intriguing book

The latest from Australian author Brooks is an excellent option for reading groups that enjoy multigenerational tales and historical fiction; Harmel’s touching story of love and loss in World War II France will appeal to fans of Pam Jenoff and Kate Quinn

Someone to Honor by Mary Balogh leads eight new bestsellers onto the lists. More reading lists arrive. Horror and thrillers are in the spotlight.

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward wins the PEN Ackerley Prize. Lesley Nneka Arimah wins the Caine Prize for African Writing. Tor.com announces its top books of the year so far. George R.R. Martin says that the Starks, direwolves, and White Walkers will all be part of the new Game of Thrones spin-off series on HBO.

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo gets buzz. More booklists for July, the rest of the year, and on selected topics arrive. Cressida Cowell is the UK’s new children’s laureate. Maya Angelou gets an artistic honor.

The eighth annual Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction ceremony and reception, held during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, DC, at the Renaissance Hotel, celebrated winning authors Rebecca Makkai (The Great Believers, Viking) and Kiese Laymon (Heavy: An American Memoir, Scribner).

Eric Klinenberg's love song to public libraries (and other community-building public spaces), a history of American capitalism penned by the former chair of the Federal Reserve, and a critically acclaimed deep dive into universal basic income make the list of top 20 best-selling titles on business and economics.

In fiction, William Gibson offers futuristic thrills, Joe Ide continues the saga of Isaiah Quintabe (IQ), and Jayne Ann Krentz launches a new romantic suspense trilogy. In nonfiction, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn address working-class America; Orenstein, the issue of boys and sex today; and Ravitch, the failure of privatizing schools.

Whether encountering a corpse in the ruins of Pompeii or trying to discover the identity of young women who may be human trafficking victims, this month’s mystery protagonists go for blood. 

This month’s batch of current-interest titles don’t just consider where we are now but look to the future, recommending political action (Eitan Hersh’s Politics Is for Power), considering how tomorrow’s economies may resemble today’s outlier models (Richard Davies’s Extreme Economies), explaining how we can feed nine billion people by mid-century (Caleb Harper’s The Future of Food), and showing how fast technology is evolving (Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler 's The Future Is Faster Than You Think).

I keep hearing that horror is making a big comeback and keep replying, “It never went anywhere.” That said, dark times are great for dark fiction, and there’s no doubt horror is going through a revival thanks to the current sociopolitical landscape.

Under Currents by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. Backlash by Brad Thor tops the bestsellers lists. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman and Three Women by Lisa Taddeo are the top books librarians and booksellers suggest for the week (and are the picks for best of the month as well.) MAD magazine will cease publishing new content. Mulan gets a trailer.

We are in the midst of a horror renaissance. From blockbuster films like Jordan Peele’s Us and Stephen King’s It to TV series like Netflix’s Stranger Things and AMC’s The Walking Dead, dark storytelling has never been more popular. A bounty of top-notch horror books will be published in the coming months, titles that are perfect for general adult collections.

Big names like James Patterson and Lisa Gardner are joined by rising stars like Chad Dundas, Emily Elgar, Catherine Steadman, and Christian White to keep you reading indoors in January. 

The Walking Dead comic is ending today. The Locus Awards are announced. As is the winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager is headed to TV. An adaptaiton of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick is in the works. The Flash might be headed to the movies, in a film created by the director of It.  

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger gets all kinds of coverage. Book club titles are out for July and there are even more summer booklists. Authors and online harassment makes news.

Comics have long been a part of the fabric of the library, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that they really started booming, said Robin Brenner, teen librarian, Brookline, P.L., MA, addressing a rapt audience at the very first “Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) President’s Program—State of the Comics Union: Past, Present, Future,” held June 23 at the ALA Annual conference in Washington, DC.

In the 1970s, the celebrated cartoonist and tireless comics advocate Will Eisner (1917–2005) stood before the Library of Congress and asked that comics be shelved in the library, believing its acceptance of the medium would lead libraries across America to follow suit. Some 20 years later, in 1997, DC Comics became the first comics publisher to exhibit at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual conference.

In the last weeks, working on Day of Dialog, the galley guides for BookExpo and the American Library Association conference in Washington, DC, and United for Libraries events at ALA, I encountered these terrific novels I would highly recommend.

In the last weeks, working on Day of Dialog, the galley guides for BookExpo and the American Library Association conference in Washington, and United for Libraries events at ALA, I encountered these impressive nonfiction titles, destined for your shelves. 

Surfside Sisters by Nancy Thayer leads holds this week. July, and more summer, booklists arrive. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes gets attention in EW and People. Sandman by Neil Gaiman is headed to Netflix.