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Star Trek: Picard airs and Dolittle hits screens. The Dublin Literary Award announces its longlist. Seth Meyers will host the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards. Also, the finalists for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award are announced. AMC will adapt Stephen King’s Sleeping Beauties. Also on AMC, The Walking Dead: Beyond World will debut on April 12.
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano leads 10 new books onto the bestseller lists. The National Jewish Book Award winners are announced. The February LibraryReads list is announced. The Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, will air in 2022. Outlander will get “a slew of spin-offs, sequels and story extensions.” Snowpiercer has a premiere date, May 31. There is a new buzzy Trump book out. ALA hires an Executive Director.
The Atlantic plans to publish more fiction, more frequently, starting with “Birdie,” a new story by Lauren Groff. LitHub offers its list of the “Most Anticipated Books of 2020.” There is a bevy of adaptation news, and lists of forthcoming adaptations. Anthony Bourdain was working on a travel guide when he died; it will be published in October.
Jason Reynolds has been named the next National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Roger Robinson wins the TS Eliot prize. Leri Price wins the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. There are plenty of reviews for the day, a list of small press titles to suggest, and Morbius gets a trailer.
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain leads holds this week. The National Book Critics Circle announce their finalists for the 2019 award year. The Oscar nominations are out. Joker gets plenty of chances to win. The Critics’ Choice Awards were awarded last night. Little Women, Joker, and The Irishman have wins. Betsy Bird considers 2019 in children’s literature in SLJ. NYPL counts its 10 most checked-out books in history.
The president and the executive director of the RWA have resigned. The NAACP Image Award nominations are out. Stephen King and Jane Austen return to the small screen this week. Plus Nancy Drew is on the case and Just Mercy opens in wide release.
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid leads five new books onto the bestseller lists. Trouble continues to mount for RWA now that Harlequin, Avon, and more publishers have pulled out of its annual conference this year. The GLAAD Media Awards nominations are out. Locke and Key gets a trailer.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of Prozac Nation, has died. A new flurry of best of 2020 lists appear. Zora creates The Zora Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made gets a trailer.
The RWA cancels the RITA awards for 2020. Lee Child will be a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize. LJ posts its findings from the Generational Reading Survey. There are updates to the page-to-screen calendar. The Witcher keeps getting buzz and The New Mutants gets a trailer.
Treason by Stuart Woods leads holds this week. Barnes & Noble picks Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano as its January book club title. The Golden Globes were awarded last night. There were a few book-related wins. Jake Gyllenhaal is going to turn Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home into a movie.
Four fan favorites comes to screens big and small this week. Barbara Hoffert picks 200 titles for 2020. R.O. Kwon creates a list of “56 Books By Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020.” Shadow and Act has a list of 20 new films and TV shows with “primarily Black casts or Black leads.” Several are based on books. Meredith Schwartz becomes LJ’s Editor-in-Chief. Rebecca T. Miller becomes the Group Publisher, overseeing LJ, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book.
The bestselling audiobooks list for January is out. Booklists continue for the best of 2020, January new titles, and the best of 2019. Reese Witherspoon picks Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid for her January book club. LJ’s 2020 Page-to-Screen calendar is out. The editor-in-chief of Knopf, Sonny Mehta, has died. MC Beaton has died.
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid leads holds this week, and leads all the buzz. Barack Obama names his favorite books of 2019; it is a multi-day project and spans not just books but music and films, too. The Romance Writers of America is unraveling after the fallout over its treatment of Courtney Milan. In adaptation news, there will be a second season of The Mandalorian and Netflix's You seems to be everywhere.
In adaptation news, international books hit screens and Doctor Who returns. There are more best-of-the-year lists and more surveys of next year's big books. The Hollywood Reporter looks at the most anticipated shows of 2020; a handful are based on books and comics.
As the year draws to a close, there are looks back at the decade, this year in books, and a peek ahead to 2020. PW names Dav Pilkey its Person of the Year. EarlyWord posts the Dec. 2019 GalleyChat roundup. Carrie by Stephen King is getting adapted into a limited series at FX. Premiere dates are out for midseason/winter shows.
The January issue of Entertainment Weekly is out. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Margaret Atwood are among the magazine’s “Entertainers of the Year.” Best-of lists for comics and poetry sneak in under the wire even as more early looks at the books of 2020 arrive. The Guardian has a book quiz and the NYT considers the long tail of Where the Crawdads Sing.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Witcher, Cats, Little Women, Just Mercy (in limited release), and You open this holiday week. J.K. Rowling faces strong backlash across a range of media. Vox writes her “latest tweet seems like transphobic BS. Her fans are heartbroken.” More best lists arrive and #LibFaves19 issues its tally. The NYPL reposts "A Christmas Carol" as read by Neil Gaiman.
Dog Man: Fetch-22: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #8) by Dav Pilkey tops the USA Today bestsellers list. Vulture writes about how women writers dominated the literary decade. Ann Patchett offers a few book recommendations, many looking toward 2020. There is much adaptation news as well.
Reading lists (and nonfiction trends) for 2020 and more Best-Of lists are out. The Far Side is coming back (sort of). Star Wars makes big box office and the NYT has a review. Audiobooks and comics are in the news too.
Best lists continue to arrive. Today are highlights for comics, indies, poetry, and more. The longlist is announced for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Dark Horse Comics is adapting Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology into a comic series. Mary H.K. Choi’s Permanent Record is headed to the movies. Outlander, season 5, offers a sneak peek.
A Small Town by Thomas Perry leads holds this week. The PEN America 2020 Literary Awards longlists are announced and The Mystery Writers of America names the 2020 Grand Master, Raven, and Ellery Queen Award Recipients. Little Women gets all sorts of buzz. Vox writes about the "surprisingly long ripple effect of the Jennifer Weiner-Jonathan Franzen feud.” Little Fires Everywhere gets a trailer and a premiere date, so does Dracula from BBC/Netflix.
The next in the Jumanji franchise arrives, as does a dark version of A Christmas Carol. Robert Kirkman has a new comic in the works. The NYT runs an op-ed with the headline “The Caldecott Medal Needs an International Makeover.” Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss plan a film based on the graphic novel Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff. Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise is set as a limited TV series.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi sees two new books onto the bestseller lists. De’Shawn Charles Winslow wins the 2019 First Novel Prize for In West Mills. More best-of lists—including cookbooks and essay collections—arrive. Malcolm Gladwell loves thrillers, revealing that he reads “Fifty, sixty, seventy” a year. He also has a classification system for them.
Bill Gates suggests 2019 books. The readers at PBS NewsHour do, too. And so does Nancy Pearl, and many more. LitHub calculates that On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong is the most popular “Best of Year” title. Michael Chabon's Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is headed to Showtime.
More best lists are out. Lois McMaster Bujold becomes the 36th Damon Knight Grand Master, named by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Jacqueline Woodson writes “Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow” for the NYT. More on the Golden Globes.
Dog Man: Fetch-22: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #8) by Dav Pilkey leads holds this week. #libfaves19 begins today. The January 2020 Indie Next booklist is out. The John Leonard Prize for Best First Book announces its finalists. The Pulitzer Prize will create a new category for audio journalists (including podcasts). The Golden Globes nominations are out.
A new Apple TV adaptation arrives this week, as does a blast from the book-controversy past. Barnes & Noble names The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne) as its Book of the Year. Bernardine Evaristo recommends her "Top 5 Reads of 2019.” Random House will publish the impeachment report.
The Rise of Magicks: Chronicles of The One, Book 3 by Nora Roberts leads the count of new bestsellers. The NYT book critics pick their top books of the year. Marilyn Stasio names the best crime books. LibraryReads releases its “Voter Favorites” for 2019 and LitHub offers “Our 50 Favorite Books of the Year.” Janet Evanovich lands two new TV series and there is more adaptation news as well.
NPR’s Book Concierge returns for 2019 with more than 2,000 titles broken into 34 categories. LitHub suggests “26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read.” Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl is the December "Read with Jenna" book selection. Circe by Madeline Miller is the PBS NewsHour-NYT book club pick for December. The winners of the Reading Women’s Award are announced. Black Widow gets a trailer.
Many more "Best Of" lists arrive. YA, romance, and Chinese SF get features. There is new trouble for the Nobel prize for literature. In adaptation news, new trailers arrive and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women gets more coverage.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi leads holds this week. Six new books made the bestsellers lists. Reese Witherspoon picks Conviction by Denise Mina as her December book club title. In Costco Connection, Pennie Clark Ianniciello picks The Ambassador's Daughter by Pam Jenoff. There are many December booklists, along with more choices for the year and the decade. The NYT begins a new column on books for kids and teens.
Page to Screen comes early with the Thanksgiving holiday: DC's Harley Quinn and Jonathan Maberry's V Wars lead the way. In award news, the Costa category shortlists are announced. Also, Edna O’Brien wins the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and Shelf Awareness picks the Best Children’s & Teen Books of the Year.
The NYT selects its 100 Notable Books of 2019. The New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library each pick their best books of the year. Entertainment Weekly names A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan the best novel of the decade.
The Rise of Magicks: Chronicles of The One, Book 3 by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. More best-of booklists for the decade, year, and week are out. The Walking Dead, Frozen 2, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker all make news.
Frozen returns to the movies and The Irishman finally opens in wide release. The Washington Post picks the best books of the year. There are reports on the public memorial for Toni Morrison.
The National Book Awards are announced. Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich leads six new titles onto the bestseller lists. The Grammy Award nominations for Best Spoken Word Album are out. Best-of-the-Decade lists are out for Fantasy and True Crime.
The National Book Awards will be announced tonight. Hallie Rubenhold wins the Baillie Gifford prize for The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Ian Williams wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Reproduction. More "best of" lists for the decade and year are out, as are holiday reading and listening suggestions.
The National Book Awards will be announced tomorrow. Events begin today. Entertainment Weekly decides that “the unreliable narrator is the biggest book trend of the decade.” Kirkus announces its picks for the Best Picture Books of 2019. Random House has a new publisher.
The Crown returns. The 2018 VIDA Count is out. The longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize is announced. The winner of The Cundill History Prize is announced. Vogue picks the Best Novels of 2019. The EarlyWord GalleyChat Roundup for November is posted.
Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14) by Jeff Kinney leads 15 new books onto the bestseller lists. Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, wins the Goldsmiths Prize. Bryan Washington, Lot: Stories, wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award. Time's new 100 NEXT list includes authors. Spike Lee will direct Prince Of Cats, based on Ron Wimberly’s graphic novel. A name to know: Deepti Kapoor.
More lists counting the best of the decade and of the year arrive. Barnes & Noble launches a new award for book of the year. A Warning by Anonymous is breaking in-house presale records. The Turkish police have rearrested Ahmet Altan.
More lists come out naming the best of the decade, even as end-of-the-year accountings start to accumulate. The Dublin Literary Award Longlist is announced. Judd Apatow's It's Garry Shandling's Book gets the buzz. Disney+ launches today.
Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich leads holds this week. With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace by Nikki R. Haley is getting today's political book buzz. Queer literature takes the spotlight. The Largehearted Boy starts work on the aggregated master list of best books for 2019.
Oprah's new book club pic is Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. WaPo has an early look at A Warning, the anonymous insider book about the Trump administration. Steven King and John Green's works come to big screens today, and a new Star Wars saga begins.
Blue Moon by Lee Child leads nine new books onto the bestseller lists. There are reading vigils in Italy as fans await the release of Elena Ferrante’s next novel (U.S. readers will have to wait until next summer). Ahmet Altan has been released from prison. Trailers are out for Wendy, based on Peter Pan, the Color Out of Space, based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story, and the upcoming Star Wars series, The Mandalorian.
Ernest Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) has died. The Andrew Carnegie Medals shortlist is out. The opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards is open. Not without controversy, Richard Ford is set to receive the Hadada prize. The Belletrist November book club pick is Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur. The BBC's “Novels That Shaped Our World” is off and running with a list of 100 books.
More November book lists arrive and a good handful of awards are in the news. In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado, The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan, Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, and Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert keep building buzz. Fantastic Beasts 3 is getting started soon. James Patterson’s forthcoming The House of Kennedy is getting adapted. The Justice Department issues a warning letter to the anonymous author.
Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14) by Jeff Kinney leads holds this week. The World Fantasy Awards are announced. The winners of the 2019 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books are out. The finalists for the Southern Book Prize are announced. Reese Witherspoon picks Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes for her November book club title while Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is the November pick for Read with Jenna.
November sees best book lists and a host of new book-based shows and films, including works based on the novels of Jonathan Lethem and Philip Pullman. Get a first look at the Normal People adaptation. Books of Blood, based on Clive Barker’s horror anthology, is headed to Hulu.
The Night Fire by Michael Connelly leads 13 new titles onto the bestseller lists. In honor of Halloween, read about the books that terrified horror authors. The NYT has “13 Books to Watch For in November." There is much adaptation news.
The next Game of Thrones adaptation will be the prequel House of the Dragon. It is based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood. Horror and other genres get focused attention, as does André Aciman. The Governor General’s Literary Awards winners are announced.
A new novel by Elena Ferrante will publish in 2020. Her newest nonfiction work, Incidental Inventions, comes out this November. Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, will publish in 2020 too. Joe Hill and Marie Kondo also have publishing news. Netflix has bought the adaptation of Jojo Moyes's The Last Letter From Your Lover. The Mandalorian gets a new trailer. I
Blue Moon by Lee Child leads holds this week. Prince’s The Beautiful Ones gets focused attention. Publishers Weekly announces its picks for the best books of 2019. Margaret Atwood gets a royal honor. Dracula gets a trailer.
Colson Whitehead, Saeed Jones, and Jerry Craft win the Kirkus Prize. The CWA Dagger Award Winners are announced. Christmas arrives on screen this week, while Halloween gets another nod. Paste names “The 25 Best Horror Novels of the 2010s.”
The Guardians by John Grisham leads 11 new books onto the bestseller lists. Vogue offers a winter reading list, and there are new lists and round ups for horror and romance. The NYT decides we have reached peak witch.
The author of the anonymous NYT op-ed “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” is writing a book. It is called A Warning. There are a host of new booklists and roundups, including LJ’s feature on the best debut novels of fall and winter. The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction is announced.
Authors feature in interviews of all sorts. New trailers arrive for Star Wars and more. LitHub selects the “10 Best Memoirs of the Decade.” The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation announce the winners and finalists of the 2019 Legacy Awards. Amazon looks back on the year of SFF awards.
The Night Fire by Michael Connelly leads holds this week. HBO's Watchmen seems to delight fans in its debut. Entertainment Weekly looks at fall books and films. The British Fantasy Awards are announced. There are plenty of booklists and new adaptations news, including word that Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Legacy" series is getting closer to some kind of on-screen version.
Watchmen, Castle Rock, and Looking for Alaska lead a lengthy list of adaptations this week. The candidates for the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award are announced, Ismail Kadare wins the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and Ali Wong continues to get buzz.
The 19th Christmas by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro leads 11 new titles onto the bestseller lists. The T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist is out, the finalists for The Cundill History Prize are announced, and the shortlist for the JCB Prize for Literature is revealed. Plus, more fallout over both the Nobel and the Booker. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow has been pulled from two big Australian bookstores, Booktopia and Amazon in Australia, after legal threats.
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Lerner and Ocean Vuong, and Ann Patchett and Elizbeth Strout feature in conversations. Venom two is reportedly set for Oct. 2, 2020, and will introduce another Marvel character, Shriek. The November LibraryReads list is out. Tiger Woods plans a memoir.
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo both win the Booker Prize. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow continues its buzzy reign across print and broadcast media, coverage is wide-spread and seemingly everywhere. Lists for “The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s" and “The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade" come out. Zoë Kravitz is set to play Catwoman in the new Batman movie.
The Guardians by John Grisham leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators gets focused coverage. Dolittle, now renamed from the original title The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle and based on the books by Hugh Lofting, gets a trailer. Earthquake Bird, based on the book by Susanna Jones, does as well.
The Addams Family hits screens today, and is followed by comics and Shakespeare. The committee picking the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature did itself no favors yesterday. Ninth House is off to Amazon Studios. Author Zukiswa Wanner offers tourist advice for Nairobi, and a lost chapter of world's first novel has been found in a Japanese storeroom.
The Nobel Prizes in Literature go to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, who wins the postponed 2018 award and Austrian playwright and author Peter Handke, who wins the 2019 award. Bloody Genius by John Sandford leads ten new books onto the bestseller lists. The new graphic novel and mass market lists appear and there are new No. 1s in fiction and nonfiction audiobooks.
The National Book Awards finalists are announced. More lists for Fall, October, and Halloween arrive. There is plenty of adaptation news. Leigh Bardugo, Susan Rice, Shea Serrano, and Ben Lerner continue to get buzz.
Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and Rihanna have new titles. The Harvey Awards are announced. James Comey's A Higher Loyalty casts up and heads to CBS. There are new book club picks, and Lit Hub selects the best 10 short stories of the decade.
Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes leads holds this week. Two Nobel prizes in literature, for 2018 and 2019, will be awarded this Thursday. The November Indie Next list is out. A bevy of trailers have arrived with lots of Walking Dead and Star Trek news. The Hunger Games prequel gets a title, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic). It comes out May 19, 2020.
Comics dominate the many adaptations out today and through the week. Bill Gates is writing a book about climate change. Stephen King makes news three times today. The Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists are announced.
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates leads 13 new titles onto the bestseller lists. The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist is announced. Abrams is starting Surely Books, a graphic novel imprint “dedicated to expanding the presence in the medium of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual creators and stories.” There are many more October booklists and plenty of adaptation news.
Reese Witherspoon’s October book club pick is Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky. The longlists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals are out. Lots of authors, including Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone, will be on the late night talk shows this evening.
More October booklists arrive, as do lists for fall and winter. The Giller Prize shortlist is announced. Rachel Maddow gets some buzz. Stylist is getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton to guest edit their October issue. Quentin Tarantino is writing a novel.
Bloody Genius by John Sandford leads holds this week. The October Read with Jenna title is The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. It is a busy morning for forthcoming book news, including Susanna Clarke's Piranesi and Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are making a splash with The Book of Gutsy Women. Spider-Man stays in the MCU.
The Center for Fiction announces the First Novel Prize short list. Changes come to the NYT bestseller lists; the paper will start to include graphic novels and mass market paperbacks again. Joe Hill and David Mitchell both make news. PBS has a book-ish Sunday and more adaptaitons hit screens.
Guts by Raina Telgemeier leads five new books onto the bestseller lists. Alison Bechdel and six more authors/artists will be inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. NYPL’s Insta Novels experiment and Reese Witherspoon’s book club are both in the news.
October booklists, as well as more fall titles, arrive. Several authors win MacArthur "Genius" grants. Chris Ware writes about Peanuts. PEN America issues a report about prisons and banned books. Jurassic World 3 reaches back to the past.
Oprah picks The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates as her newest book club title, the first book to feature in her new venture with Apple. The National Book Foundation names its 5 Under 35 authors. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller continues to get impressive, and impressed, coverage, and Bobby at Home: Fearless Flavors from My Kitchen: A Cookbook by Bobby Flay gets buzz.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Harper) leads holds this week. The National Book Award longlist for fiction is out, and now that all the lists have been announced, the full set of nominees, across all categories, is getting coverage. The Guardian picks “The 100 best books of the 21st century." Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller and The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates picked up a lot of buzz over the weekend.
The National Book Awards longlist for Nonfiction is out. Fiction will be announced later today. Downton Abbey and a Stephen King story hit screens today and through the week. Michael B. Jordan is adapting Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is set for TV.
There are 14 new bestsellers this week. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and The Institute by Stephen King top the charts. The National Book Awards longlist in Poetry is out. The Hunters Point Community Library in Queens gets high praise for design.
The National Book Awards announces the longlist for Translated Literature. The longlist for Poetry will be announced later today. The Kirkus Prize list is up. EarlyWord posts its GalleyChat for September. Jacqueline Woodson, She Said, and The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation get more buzz.
The longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards arrive this week. The list for Young People’s Literature was announced yesterday, Translated Literature goes up today. Scholars think they have found Milton’s copy of Shakespeare’s first folio, with Milton’s notes, edits, and suggestions. Battle at Big Rock, a new Jurassic short film, is out; it takes place a year after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson leads holds this week. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly is making news. Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love wins the Klaus Flugge prize while the the National Book Foundation gives the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Edmund White. Anne Rivers Siddons has died.
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden starts getting attention. So does Demi Moore, Inside Out: A Memoir. The Goldfinch opens today. John Green reads poetry. His Dark Materials adaptation debuts Monday, November 4 on HBO.
Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb leads 13 new books onto the bestseller lists. Entertainment Weekly has an excerpt of The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang. Sally Rooney gives writing advice.
The Institute by Stephen King is getting adapted for TV. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge is set for the movies. Starz is going to air Dublin Murders, based on the Tana French books. Apple TV gets into the adaptation business with Foundation, Dickinson, Lisey's Story, The Morning Show, Pachinko, and more.
The NYT declares today Super Tuesday for books. Europa Editions tweets the opening paragraph of the next Elena Ferrante novel. Barbara Hoffert’s Prepub Alert hits March 2020. Changes to BookExpo are announced.
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood leads holds this week and is still getting plenty of buzz. However, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey sweeps in and gives Atwood a run for her money in terms of attention. Doctor Sleep gets a trailer. Joker wins the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Stephen King dominates adaptations with It: Chapter Two and Mr. Mercedes opening today and next week. Plus, news that Dr. Sleep is on its way to screens, too. Rita Dove wins the Wallace Stevens Award. Whoopi Goldberg's entertaining guide is getting buzz. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is writing a book.
A Better Man by Louise Penny leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. There are more reviews and some buzzy news about The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller and What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander garner focused attention.
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood gets global coverage. Dorothea Benton Frank has died. Belletrist picks What Red Was by Rosie Price as its September book, while the Read with Jenna book for the month is The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall. Ursula Le Guin’s "Earthsea" series is set for TV and The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand is headed to FOX. Watchmen will debut on Oct. 20, on HBO.
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger leads holds this week. The Booker Prize shortlist is announced; Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Chigozie Obioma, and Elif Shafak make it through. The CWA Dagger Shortlists are out. LJ continues its Generational Reading Study, this time looking at the reading of Generation Z. "Harry Potter" is removed from a Nashville Catholic school.
More fall and September books lists arrive. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott gets the buzz, as does The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather, Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness, and Genius Foods by Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal, M.D. Outlander returns to TV in Feb. 2020.
Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis gets focused attention. New fall book lists arrive, plus back to school booklists, and starred reviews. The PBS NewsHour-NYT book club pick for September is Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney.
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jennifer Gunter and Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg get buzz. Barbara Kingsolver writes about loving words. The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is getting renamed to The Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and Tor.com issue fall reading lists. There will be more. The Splatterpunk Awards are out. A new look at Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker is released, creating all kinds of buzz. Levar Burton Reads N.K. Jemisin.
A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny leads holds this week. Time magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places 2019” includes libraries. The Black Panther sequel will arrive in Summer 2022. The Great British Bake-Off returns on Aug. 30. The Mandalorian gets a trailer.
A controversial series and fascinating women lead adaptations this week. A bevy of booklists are out, including those addressing science, poetry, and music. Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is headed to the movies. Motherless Brooklyn gets a trailer.
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey leads 14 books onto the bestseller lists this week. Nicholas Sparks wins his defamation case. The Ripped Bodice bookstore launches its next Great Big Romance Read. Early sketches from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery have been found.
Spider-Man, James Bond, and The Matrix are in the news. Saga: Compendium One by Fiona Staples, Brian K Vaughan, Ninja: Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming by Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, and Thank You for My Service by Mat Best get buzz. There are still more stories to tell in the Star Wars world, as Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson proves.