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Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams leads holds this week. Also in demand are titles by James Patterson and Brian Sitts, Fiona Davis, Danielle Steel, and Alafair Burke. People’s book of the week is Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin. Audiofile announces the January Earphones Award winners. Jenna Bush Hager selects The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight for her January book club. The film and TV adaptations for Conclave, Wicked, Shōgun, I’m Still Here, and The Penguin win Golden Globes. Plus, what to read in 2025.
For more than two decades, Library Journal’s Day of Dialog has been the most anticipated librarian-only gathering of the year. Now it’s gone digital and is free to attend! The next all-day event is scheduled for October 26 and will feature a close-up look at the biggest forthcoming books for winter/spring 2024.
The 2023 Hugo Awards are announced; Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher wins best novel, and Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire wins best novella. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears leads holds this week. Also in demand are titles by Lee Child and Andrew Child, John Stamos, Adam Grant, and Jesmyn Ward, whose Let Us Descend is also People’s book of the week. Four LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. Lee Child passes the baton to his brother Andrew, and James Patterson talks about the art of collaboration with USA Today. Plus, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, based on the book by David Grann, is out now.
All the October 2023 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.
Vanished teenagers, Russian espionage, and other thrills.
Abram C. Van Engen wins the 2022 Yale University Press’s Pelikan Award for City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. Nora Roberts donates $25,000 to another library due to continued book censorship. The best sellers lists offer these new titles: Long Shadows by David Baldacci, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, The Maze by Nelson DeMille, Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen, and Hold the Line by Michael Fanone and John Shiffman. There are author interviews with George McCalman, Matthew Perry, Ralph Macchio, Clint Hill, and Robert Draper. There is also adaptation news for David DB Andry’s Resonant comic book series and The Bomb Maker by Thomas Perry.
All the March 2023 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.
All the December 2022 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.
All the May 2022 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.
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