Longlists are selected for the Reading the West Awards. Finalists are revealed for the Compton Crook Award, for best debut sci-fi, fantasy, or horror novel. Isabel Allende receives the Bodley Medal for her contributions to literature. Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child wins the Novel Prize. Publishing Perspectives analyzes the longlists for the UK Carnegie Medals for children’s books and finds a trend of books about masculinity. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Helen Fielding, Charlamagne Tha God, and Charlotte Wood.

As the new year steams into action, the book season gets in full gear as well, greeting spring, summer, and fall with a long list of titles worth noting. From fiction that focuses on a range of contemporary concerns, to nonfiction reminding us that the past is always prologue, to poetry that summons attention, these are works to know, share, and read.

All the June 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

The finalists for the Cundill History Prize are announced, the winners of the Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, the shortlist for the Endeavour Award for SFF by Pacific Northwest authors is announced, and the winners of the Rhysling Awards for speculative poetry are announced. The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore wins an Isle of Wight Book Award. A federal judge has ordered an Arkansas library to stop segregating controversial books into special “social sections.”

All the March 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

St. Martin’s Press makes a statement regarding a marketing and promotional boycott by Readers for Accountability. Booktopia is sold to DigiDirect. Authors sue AI startup Anthropic over its popular chatbot Claude. Time argues that “This Election Will Determine the Fate of Libraries.” Amazon Prime cancels My Lady Jane, based on the book by Jodi Meadows, after one season. Millie Bobby Brown is adapting her book Nineteen Steps for Netflix. Plus, Deadline rounds up everything we know about Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2.

LJ recently spoke with Rebekah Cummings, a librarian for the University of Utah's Marriott Library, who is currently running for Lieutenant Governor of Utah.

From World War II to the Renaissance to 1177 BCE, these works of nonfiction are time machines to the past.

All the August 2024 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.