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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.
NPR picks 100 Favorite Funny books, plus this year's summer reading poll. Doxology by Nell Zink is the book of the day. Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi are teaming up on Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning.
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter leads holds this week. Author Paule Marshall has died. The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal wins the Hugo Award. George R.R. Martin talks about how he feels free now that HBO's GOT is over. Several political books feature in forthcoming news.
Where'd You Go Bernadette? leads a handful of adaptations today and through next week. Robert Macfarlane wins the Wainwright Golden Beer book prize and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wins one of the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards. The September LibraryReads list is out, topped by Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson.
The Inn by James Patterson with Candice Fox leads nine new bestsellers onto the lists. Barack Obama posts his summer reading list—and sends book sales soaring. The NYT Magazine publishes poems and stories by 16 notable authors that bring African American history to life.
An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo is the book of the day, getting glowing reviews and focused attention. Inland by Téa Obreht continues to make strides. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard is also getting strong buzz. The trailer for Little Women is out and is trending on YouTube.
Inland by Téa Obreht gets much better reviews. The shortist for the Not the Booker prize is out and there is other award news as well. A male critic has written about Sally Rooney's lips, starting a social media fire storm.
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey leads holds this week with The Bitterroots by C.J. Box on its heels. The September Indie Next list is out. The No. 1 pick is This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. J.D. Salinger's books will be issued as e-editions, finally.
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware leads holds this week. New booklists arrive for the week, for August, and for fall. NPR’s Summer Reader Poll features The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Librarians and booksellers both suggest The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai and Ruth Ware's newest. N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy is getting adapted into a roleplaying game.
An American master comes to the screen today. Comics and series domintate the week in adapations. In dueling book club picks Jenna Bush Hager names Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn as her next choice while Reese Witherspoon selects The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda. Edward Snowden has written a memoir. The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis is headed back to the screen while Stephen King is writing new material for the new The Stand adaptation.
One Good Deed by David Baldacci leads seven new books onto the bestseller lists. More August booklists arrive. Slate reports on “The Dark History Behind Where the Crawdads Sing.” Authors who have been famous for some time get new attention.
August booklists get a one-day head start. Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is the next PBS NewsHour/NYT book club pick for August. Circe by Madeline Miller is headed to HBO. Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, and Leonardo DiCaprio join forces for the adaptation of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon. The Walking Dead gets a trailer for its third, as yet to be named, series.
Winners and shortlists are out for romance, sf, fantasy, and other genre awards. Bill Gates, Ellen, and Good Morning America give three books a boost. Made for Love by Alissa Nutting is headed to HBO and both The Kitchen and Sanditon get new trailers.
Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter leads holds as the week begins. Seven LibraryReads and Indie Next titles publish this week. True crime gets attention. The Washington Post’s best-seller lists contained errors.
Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes is voted The Tonight Show Summer Reads choice. The Millions selects “Ten Writers to Watch in 2019.” The Center for Fiction announces the Frist Novel Prize Longlist. The adaptation of Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is going to Showtime. The Goldfinch gets another trailer.
The New Girl by Daniel Silva leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. In award news, the Ripped Bodice bookstore creates a romance novel award and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature announces its nominees. John Grisham’s The Confession is headed to the movies while the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is set for a series on Hulu.
The Booker Prize longlist is out, as is the British Fantasy Awards shortlist. More summer reading lists, and lists of all sorts, offer a range of reading, from debuts to urban fantasy. Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark and The Right Stuff get trailers.
One Good Deed by David Baldacci tops holds this week. My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips win the top Eisner Award. Librarians and booksellers pick the same three books for the week. More best of the year lists appear, as do many new trailers for book/comic adaptations.
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.