In LJ’s yearly examination of this reader-favorite genre, we found four leading trends that examine trauma and mortality, offer insight into the impact of war, readily confront mental health concerns, and experiment with hybrid forms and genres.

Beverly Gage wins the New-York Historical Society award for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Other awards announcements include the International Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist, National Book Critics Circle winners, and Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Multiple news outlets cover the book ban report recently released by ALA. There are many conversations with authors including Geetanjali Shree, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Robert Lopez, Jinwoo Chong, Victor LaValle, and Julia Samuel.

The August 2023 Prepub Alert posts are also available as a downloadable spreadsheet of titles.

Contemporary activism, moments and words of joy, and a memorable debut. The best arts and humanities titles of 2022.

All the March 2023 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

Poverty, policing, destabilized Iraq, and the importance of data.

All the November 2022 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

All the October 2022 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel leads holds this week and garners an adaptation at HBO Max. Carry On: Reflections For A New Generation by John Lewis with Kabir Sehgal, read by Don Cheadle, won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. The 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction winners are announced. An anthology of the winners, The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners ed. by Valeria Luiselli, will publish September 13th. Six Library Reads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline. April's Costco Connection features Girls of Flight City by Lorraine Heath, The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly, a Wheel of Time boxed set by Robert Jordan, and The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight.