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 Jesmyn Ward receives the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The winners of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards are announced. The top best sellers are The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, Escape by James Patterson and David Ellis, Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. There are author conversations with Tim Miller, Matthew Hild, Mat Johnson, Jamie Bartlett, Jenny Kleeman, and Austin Kleon. Plus, adaptations on the way for Paul Williams’s Only Apparently Real and Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne.

Lisa Bird-Wilson wins the 2022 Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award for Probably Ruby. This year’s Gordon Burn Prize longlist is announced, which includes authors Margo Jefferson, Ali Smith, Lea Ypi and Tice Cin. LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for Suspects by Danielle Steel. Interviews feature conversations with Zachary Levi, Elisa Albert, Keri Blakinger, Carlos PenaVega and Alexa PenaVega,  John Vercher, and Meron Hadero. Plus, B&N and TikTok team up for the #BookTokChallenge.

The 2022 Colorado Book Awards, Indie Book Awards, and Rhysling Award winners are announced. Ukranian writer Serhiy Zhadan wins the German Peace Prize. Macmillan remains closed today to address a cybersecurity incident. Interviews arrive with Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Joseph Han, Ada Calhoun, and Nishant Batsha, along with booklists for a post-Roe landscape. Plus, a look at the criminal world of tree theft in Lyndsie Bourgon's Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods.

Suspects by Danielle Steel leads holds this week. The Firecracker Award and Analog AnLab Award winners are announced. Three LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Authors protest over Amazon’s read and return e-book policy. Plus, screenwriter Abi Morgan will adapt, direct, and executive produce a TV adaptation of her book, This Is Not a Pity Memoir.

Texas A&M University restructured its University Libraries’ administrative system, including rescinding tenure—and eliminating the tenure process—for librarians. As of the fall semester, library faculty will be required to either give up their tenured status to remain full-time library staff members, or transfer to another academic department to keep or continue to pursue tenure, and teach credit-bearing courses with between 10 and 70 percent service in the libraries.

More summer reading picks arrive. There are author interviews with Chelsea T. Hicks, Jenny Mollen, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michelle Huneven. Adaptation news is out for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Númenor and the Archie comic Jake Chang. Plus, page to screen.

George Chauncey wins the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. Clare Jackson wins the 2022 Wolfson History Prize for Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688. The 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist and the 2022 Ignotus Awards finalists are announced. At the top of the best sellers lists are The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand, Horse by Geraldine Brooks, Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin, and I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura. 

Ann Shin wins the Trillium Book Award. The fifth annual Indigenous Voices Award winners are announced. So are the 2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlists. Audible, Inc. announces a first-look production deal with the Obama's media company, Higher Ground. Library Reads and LJ offer read-likes for Riley Sager's buzzy book, The House Across the Lake. The ALA Annual Conference returns in-person tomorrow. Also, Emma Straub will adapt her novel This Time Tomorrow for the big screen. 

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager leads holds this week. The Yoto Carnegie Greenaway 2022 Awards winners are announced. Malorie Blackman becomes the first children's and YA author to win PEN Pinter prize. James Robertson wins the 2022 Walter Scott Prize and Kalani Pickhart wins the New York Public Library’s 2022 Young Lions Fiction Award. Mystery Writers of America announces a new Lilian Jackson Braun Award. Three LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard. Also, The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas will be adapted into a movie.