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Ranging from debut authors to authors who have claimed big sales or awards with their first few books, here are rising stars in the thrillersphere. 

From Bentley/Clancy to J.A. Jance to Stuart Woods: chills for the summer. 

June memoir leads off with key #ownvoices narratives. 

Big names like Pat Barker, Francine Prose, Jonathan Evison, and Brandon Taylor, plus a host of fledging writers often addressing coming of age. 

Best sellers in computer science, November 2019 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Covering topics such as Black studies, business, history, nature, statistics, and technology, the following databases will help academic and public libraries meet the research needs of patrons—a task that's become even more difficult now that access to physical materials is more limited owing to the pandemic.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is the December Read with Jenna pick, honoring the 50th anniversary of its publication. AudioFile’s December Earphone Award winners are up. More lists of the year's best books are out. Journalist John Heilemann is writing a book on Joe Biden's campaigns, and screen rights have already been acquired by Showtime. The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish will be adapted as well. Ben Bova, the prolific sci-fi author and editor, has passed away.

Kent State, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse, a loving look at a comics icon. The best graphic novels published in 2020.

In a year that many would call one of the worst in recent memory, we were still rewarded with great books. The LJ Best Books of 2020 gathers 144 titles across 15 categories to help get libraries and readers through to better days. Comfort reads mix with fresh new perspectives in this selection of outstanding titles published in 2020.

Birds and whales and eels, oh my! The best science & technology books published in 2020.

Historical corrections, a fascination with science, burdens of the past. The best short stories published in 2020.

Translated novels first written in French, Farsi, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean comprise the best world literature published in 2020.

Ravishing verse, lyrical contemplations, limpid language. The best poetry books published in 2020.

Toni Morrison, Ravi Shankar, and Richard Avedon star in the best arts books published in 2020.

Malcolm X, Rose Pastor Stokes, Natasha Trethewey. The best biographies & memoirs published in 2020.

Pan-banging cookies, baking simplified, science of cooking. The best cooking and food books published in 2020.

Caste and control, the power of protest, a portrait of boys. The best social science books of 2020.

A railway magnate, a brothel owner, and two gamers all find love in the best romance novels published in 2020.

A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir leads library holds lists this week. The top LibraryReads pick of the month, How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams, comes out this week. Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson and A Promised Land by Barack Obama top the bestseller lists. Catch up on analysis of the sale of Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House. Plus, interest in chess books and chess sets has spiked following the recent premier of The Queen's Gambit.

Supervillains, an ancient storyteller, gods and monsters. The best science fiction & fantasy novels published in 2020.

A girl with a louding voice, a bawdy observer, a woman making her own happy ending. The best pop fiction novels published in 2020.

New York Public Library selects their favorite books of the year. Nominations for 2021 Grammy Awards include audiobooks narrated by Rachel Maddow, Ronan Farrow, and Meryl Streep. The Costa Book Awards shortlist is out. A Promised Land by Barack Obama breaks sales records for presidential memoirs. The new series The Flight Attendant and an updated Black Beauty debut this week. Plus, adaptations of Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander and Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith are in the works.

Great June reading, often from LJ-starred authors, with Janet Evanovich introducing her first new series on her own in a while.

From demythologizing the Alamo to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan’s significantly far-reaching dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson to the British battling the Germans over Malta during World War II, plus talking about the impact of books in American history.

The New York Times lists its top 10 books of the year. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin wins the Brooklyn Public Library 2020 Nonfiction Prize and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong wins the 2020 Fiction & Poetry Prize. Charlaine Harris and Jeffery Deaver are the 2021 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters, and Malice Domestic receives the 2020 Raven Award. In forthcoming book news, 2021 will see Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson. Also, there's a video game treasure hunt for Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline.

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline leads holds this week. Time lists the 10 best nonfiction books of 2020, with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson in the top spot, while Lit Hub shares the best short story collections of the year. In Vanity Fair, Jesmyn Ward interviews Barack Obama to discuss A Promised Land. Historian and travel writer Jan Morris has died at age 94.

Shuggie Bain, the debut book by Douglas Stuart, wins the 2020 Booker Prize. Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump wins the 2020 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Amazon selects A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K Barnett as the best book of the year, and The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, and O: The Oprah Magazine have their 2020 best-of lists, as well. Never-before-seen work from J.R.R. Tolkien is coming next year in The Nature of Middle-earth. Plus, Between the World and Me, Hillbilly Elegy, and more new adaptation releases.

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne are among the winners of the 2020 National Book Awards. The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly tops both the NYT and USA Today Bestsellers lists. The Washington Post unveils multiple best-of 2020 lists. The 2020 Writers’ Trust awards winners are out. Joy Harjo will serve a rare third term as U.S. poet laureate. Wonder Woman 1984 will be released in theaters and HBO Max on Christmas Day.

Publishers, authors, and agents ponder the impact a Donald Trump book deal might have. Quentin Tarantino is writing the novelization of his own film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which will initially be published as a mass market paperback. Rebecca Carroll is adapting her upcoming memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, as a series. Read an excerpt from Later by Stephen King. Plus, starting in 2022 Yale University Press is publishing a series of brief biographies called Black Lives.

Top June fiction with authors ranging from veterans Lionel Shriver and Beatriz Williams to newcomer Tom Lin. 

New York Times reporter Emma Goldberg on doctors doing their residencies during COVID-19, George Packer on the narratives that have made America lose its way, Imani Perry on how the South defines America, and Clint Smith on slavery as central to the American experience. 

Zombies, vampires, and assorted monsters stalk the pages of the best horror novels published in 2020.

Belonging and acceptance, ecological disaster, Shakespeare's child. The best literary fiction published in 2020.

A wheelman-turned-family man, four crafty retirees, a newly made vigilante. The best crime fiction published in 2020.

The December Library Reads list is out, and the number one pick is How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams. Barack Obama's memoir, A Promised Land, is out today, and continues to generate substantial buzz. The shortlist for ALA's 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence is out. The CW is at work on the series Wonder Girl, which will feature a Latina lead. Also, Penguin Random House and News Corp, which owns HarperCollins, are leading the bids to purchase Simon & Schuster.

A Promised Land by Barack Obama leads holds this week, and audio excerpts read by Obama are available. Kirkus picks the best fiction of 2020. Forthcoming book news arrives about The Other Emily by Dean Koontz, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, and Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe. The 2020 Christy Award winners are named.

Read excerpts and reviews of A Promised Land by Barack Obama, including an in-depth review by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The former president will also participate in the 2020 Booker Prize ceremony. Barnes & Noble lists its Book of the Year Finalists. Buzzy adaptations releasing this week include The Life Ahead, Alex Rider, and The Personal History of David Copperfield. Buzzy adaptations in the works include modern-day reimaginings of Jane Austen novels and The Island of Dr. Moreau, plus a feature adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table that will be directed by Michel Gondry.

Best sellers in Asian history, November 2019 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Time picks 100 must-read books for the year. Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich tops this week's bestsellers lists. The 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize honors The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman and Know My Name by Chanel Miller. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison wins the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize. Forthcoming book news arrives from NYT reporter Maggie Haberman and Sen. Tammy Duckworth. Barack Obama has TV appearances lined up ahead of next week's release of his memoir, A Promised Land.

Along with social justice issues and arts titles embracing Bob Dylan and Salman Rushdie, May brings a history and future of quarantine to give us context.

Four stories of resistance and courage. 

From Lincoln to Nixon and key events in between: five key history titles. 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, and Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi are among the 15 books on the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist. A film adaptation of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates is set to be produced by Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt, with Coates writing the screenplay. Cameran Eubanks, former star of Bravo's Southern Charm, is working on the memoir One Day You'll Thank Me. Also, EarlyWord’s GalleyChat for November is posted.

May pop fiction opens the season for beach-set beach reads, but there are more heartwarmers here. 

The short stories collection How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa wins the $100,000 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, narrates the audiobook Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, which is also headed to HBO Max as a series. The Con Queen of Hollywood, based on a Hollywood Reporter article by Scott Johnson, has been picked up by HarperCollins. Plus, print books sales were up for the last week of October, compared to the same week last year, with the newest Wimpy Kid title leading the rise.

The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly tops holds this week, and LibraryReads and Indie Next offer several recommendations for additional buzzy new releases. Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, and Rebecca Snedeker wins the 2020 Alice Award. This weekend saw increased interest in books by Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams. The Three-Body Problem adaptation is encountering problems for comments by its author, Liu Cixin.

Luster by Raven Leilani, Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith, and I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James, win the 2020 Kirkus Prize. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May tops the December Indie Next List. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media is up for sale. Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer, due out April 2021, will be adapted as a series for Netflix.

The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End by Jeff Kinney top the fiction bestsellers lists this week. The best-selling audiobooks of the month are A Time for Mercy by John Grisham, read by Michael Beck, and Greenlights, written and read by Matthew McConaughey. R.B. Lemberg, The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book, is the 2020 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman wins the 2020 WHSmith Book of the Year. The estate of Truman Capote has filed a lawsuit over rights to develop prequels, sequels, or series related to Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist is out, and the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards is open. More new lists of buzzy November releases arrive and Nicole Krauss' short story collection, To Be a Man, earns strong praise. Excerpts of Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson will arrive each week through its release later this month. After a reversal, a monument to Maya Angelou will go up in San Francisco.

Best sellers in mathematics, October 2019 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Deborah Douglas voyaged throughout the South in preparation for her book Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement (Moon Travel Guides).

Journalism, boxing, soldiering, and more: recalling the past to understand the present. 

Historical fiction ranging from a feminist retelling of Ariadne's story to  different views on World War II. 

Some of your favorite actors and social media stars talk about their lives. 

Spring is a big time for debut novels, as this list reveals. 

This month's literary gems include a long-lost novel by John Oliver Killens, a founding father of the Black Arts Movement. 

Disclosing oneself to help others. 

Traditionally, consumers looking for Spanish-language books would find mostly religious texts, self-help titles, and a few best sellers, such as Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s work. But over the last decade, publishers have noticed an increased demand for a wider selection of titles.

White Ivy by Susie Yang is the November Read with Jenna pick. The NYT offers an excerpt of its first chapter. The novel shortlist is out for the 2020 Staunch Book Prize; the winner will be announced next week. There is news on the ensemble cast of the film adaptation of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. The first trailer for Bridgerton, based on the series by Julia Quinn, arrives. Plus, lots of lists of recommended new releases for the month.

Alyn Shipton is a legendary author, musician, and BBC radio presenter who covered jazz for The Times of London for over two decades. In this extraordinary treasure, Shipton presents a century of jazz history through sheet music, album art, concert posters, and promotional photography, as well as many stand-alone works of fine art.

Issac J. Bailey writes a powerful call to action. Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham compile writing and artwork around Black lives. Kenya Hunt tells how Black women survive and thrive.

Ijeoma Oluo's words will resonate with all ready to look inward and enact change. Connor Towne O'Neill writes a powerful meditation on collective memory. Ty Seidule shows how history informs our present.

Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich leads holds this week. Winners of the World Fantasy Awards 2020 are announced. Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce and White Ivy by Susie Yang are getting a lot of buzz from librarians and booksellers. Lists of the best books of November are out from The Washington Post, Barnes & Noble, The Millions, and more, and the November Earphone Awards are released by AudioFile.