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.

Turn the page into 2024 and explore the books filling the year. Across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, here are titles, authors, and subjects to note, from future best sellers, to gems readers will treasure, to works destined for award attention.

See the titles LJ's book review editors have on their TBR lists this upcoming season. 

The top reads from our January issue, ranging across mystery, romance, fiction, science fiction, horror, arts, science, and social science. 

Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.