Book Pulse

The Booker Prize shortlist is announced. Entitlement by Rumaan Alam gets reviewed. Memoirs arrive from James Middleton, Eric Roberts, Ina Garten, and Mark Hoppus. Plus, interviews with Gillian Anderson, Coco Mellors, Mirya R. Holman, and Connie Chung.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Laura Dave, Kelly Bishop, Hilary Rodham Clinton, and Rumaan Alam. People’s book of the week is The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard. All the National Book Award longlists are out now. Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell, wins big at the 2024 Emmys.

Longlists for the National Book Award for nonfiction and poetry are revealed. Daniel Mason’s North Woods, Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening, and James Crews’s The Wonder of Small Things win New England Book Awards. The longlist for the CBC Nonfiction Prize and the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award are announced. A study by Pearson and Penguin Books shows how diversifying reading lists and teaching texts by writers of color impacts students. Plus, Page to Screen and an NYT Magazine profile of Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection.

Helen Czerski’s The Blue Machine and Michael Malay’s Late Light win Wainwright Prizes for nature writing. Shortlists are announced for the American Library in Paris Award and the Mo Siewcharran Prize for unpublished fantasy by writers from underrepresented backgrounds. Amicus briefs are filed ahead of key Fifth Circuit “freedom to read” hearings. Canada’s Giller literary prize drops sponsor Scotiabank from its name after protests over the bank’s investments in Israeli weapons manufacturing. Plus, new title bestsellers.

The National Book Award longlists for Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature are announced. Earlyword’s September “GalleyChat” spreadsheet arrives. Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us has sold 10 million copies. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Liane Moriarty’s buzzy book Here One Moment. Clémence Michallon’s The Quiet Tenant will be adapted for TV, and a new adaptation of Georges Simenon’s iconic “Maigret” mystery series heads to Masterpiece. Plus, fall cookbooks.

Oprah selects Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout for her book club. Publishers Weekly rounds up September book club picks. The Ditmar Awards Preliminary Ballot is announced. Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment continues to gather buzz. Memoirs from Eve and Kelly Bishop are in the news. And legendary actor James Earl Jones, the subject of a new children’s book, has died at the age of 93.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty leads holds this week. Also in demand are titles by TJ Klune, Elizabeth Strout, and J.A. Jance. Barbara Kingsolver wins the National Book Foundation’s lifetime achievement award. People’s book of the week is Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout. Danzy Senna’s Colored Television is GMA’s September book club pick. The October Indie Next Preview is out, featuring #1 pick The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave. Plus, Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell, takes home 14 Creative Arts Emmys.

The longlist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year is announced. Poets & Writers releases its seventh annual selection of the best new memoirs and essay collections. “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia wins the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction story. Acclaimed Cree novelist Darrel J. McLeod, author of A Season in Chezgh’un, has died at age 67, and Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, has died at age 66. Plus, interviews with Ketanji Brown Jackson, Gillian Anderson, and Cynthia Zarin.

The Cundill History Prize and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime fiction shortlists and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and the Giller Prize for Canadian fiction longlists are released. Danielle Treweek’s The Meaning of Singleness wins Australian Christian Book of the Year. W. Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press, wins National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award. An appeals court upholds the ruling that Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library program is in violation of copyright law. Little Free Library partners with ALA and PEN America on a book ban map.