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A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny leads holds this week. Four Indie Next picks publish this week, including Winterland by Rae Meadows, which gets buzz. People’s book of the week is A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel. Bren Simmers wins the CBC Poetry Prize. NPR’s Books We Love and NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2022 are out now. 

The 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction shortlist is announced. Katherine Rundell has won the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. The Porchlight Business Book Awards longlist is announced. News reports cover banned books, the HarperCollins Union strike, and indictments related to the Z-Library ebook archives. There are interviews delving into conversations with Prince Shakur, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Aliza Kelly, Pauline Dakin, Dan Chaon, Zosia Mamet, and Bono. 

The 2022 National Book Award winners are announced. The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize shortlist is released. Desert Star by Michael Connelly, Stellarlune by Shannon Messenger, and Charm by Tracy Wolff top the best-seller lists. Author interviews are out with Alison Mariella Désir, Lauren Graham, and Pete Hsu.

Best sellers in environmental science, November 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Canada's Governor General’s Literary Awards are announced. Winners of the Polari book prizes are announced, including Joelle Taylor for her collection, C+nto & Othered Poems. Nominations and shortlists for the Andrew Carnegie Medal, Scotland's National Book Awards, the Tasmanian Literary Awards, and the Grammy Awards are also announced. December’s LibraryReads features top pick, The Circus Train by Amita Parikh. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama. 

Time releases “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022.” The Center for Fiction’s Annual Awards Benefit will take place December 6. The Rhysling Award Long Poem winners are announced. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama and So Help Me God by Mike Pence get reviews and attention. Vox reads and reviews all of the 2022 National Book Award finalists. Patti Smith discusses her new book of photographs. Plus, Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Shuggie Bain will be adapted for TV. 

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama leads library holds this week. One LibraryReads and 10 Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger. Andrew Morton’s biography, The Queen: Her Life, is reviewed. University Press Week begins today. Caroline Kepnes teases a new Joe Goldberg novel, due out in April. Plus, the subject of Michael Lewis’s new book appears to be the former head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. 

The World Fantasy Awards winners and Golden Poppy finalists are out. The court decision regarding the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is released. Flying to the top of the best-sellers lists are Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich, Triple Cross by James Patterson, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono, and The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan. 

Best sellers in language, October 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

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The December Loan Stars list is out, with A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley in the #1 spot. Christian Léourier wins the Prix Joël-Champetier Award. A U.S. judge explains why she blocked the PRH/S. & S. merger. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Desert Star by Michael Connelly. Interviews arrive with the 2022 National Book Award finalists. Interviews with Joanna Gaines, Dani Shapiro, Percival Everett, Joe Meno J. Hope Stein, Tracy Deonn, Andrew Weiss, and Matthew F. Delmont make the news.  

Suzette Mayr wins the $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Sleeping Car Porter. The World Fantasy Award winners are announced. Harper Collins union and management plan to strike on Thursday. USA Today gives Now Is Not the Time To Panic by Kevin Wilson a 4-star review. The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters by Joanna Gaines arrives with buzz. British comic artist and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen co-creator Kevin O’Neill dies at 69. Plus, Nikki Giovanni discusses love and radicalism on Generational Anxiety, which airs on PBS.

Desert Star by Michael Connelly leads holds this week. Shortlists for the Voss Literary Prize, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, and the Oddest Book Title of the Year for the Diagram Prize are announced. Four LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Foster by Claire Keegan. 

There are awards announcements for ​​​​the Southern Book Prize finalists, Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards winners, and the winner of Prix Goncourt. Many interviews plumb the thoughts of authors such as Percival Everett, Zosia Mamet, Shaun Ta, Ralph Macchio, Veronica Roth, Nick Drnaso, Tom Perrotta, and Stephen King. Also, adaptations for film and television will be made from Catherine Lacey’s The Answers, Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal, and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

The best-seller lists feature No Plan B by Lee Child and Andrew Child, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diaper Överlöde by Jeff Kinney, The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, Radio’s Greatest of All Time by Rush Limbaugh with Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaugh, Waypoints: My Scottish Journey by Sam Heughan, and Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten. There are interviews with authors Dani Shapiro, Maureen Lee Lenker, Ramona Emerson, Javier Zamora, and Bono. An adaptation of Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education is in the works. Plus, there is a new version of A Christmas Carol on the way, starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. 

November book club picks arrive. Audiofile announces the November Earphones Award Winners. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the $60K Weston Prize for nonfiction will be announced today. Emily Post’s Etiquette gets an update for its centennial edition. Food writer Julie Powell, who wrote Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, has died at age 49. 

Best sellers in chemistry, October 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

A U.S. judge has blocked the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. The Shirley Jackson Awards winners are announced, with My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones winning best novel. The Whiting Creative Nonfiction grantees are also announced. Finalists for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award are out too. B&N’s November book club pick is The Cloisters by Katy Hays. HQN Books relaunches as Canary Street Press. November’s Costco Connection is out with a cover feature on James Patterson, and a special books section. Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses, appears on B&N’s Poured Over podcast. 

In the coming season, folklore, fairy tales, and ancient stories become new fantastic tales, while others speculate about the near and far future of life on Earth and beyond.

Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich leads library holds this week. Eight LibraryReads and 11 Indie Next picks publish this week, including #1 Indie pick We Are the Light by Matthew Quick. People’s book of the week is Poster Girl by Veronica Roth. Big memoirs from Bono and Matthew Perry get reviewed. Plus, George R.R. Martin weighs in on House of the Dragon.

The Kirkus Prize winners are announced, including Trust by Hernan Diaz for fiction, and In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanaïs for nonfiction. The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year is announced. PRH Audio expands partnership with Peachtree Publishing. Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song gets early reviews. Vogue analyzes the title of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare. Aldis Hodge will play Alex Cross in new Amazon series. Plus, Elon Musk closes deal to buy Twitter.

Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The three finalists for Blackwell’s Books of the Year are announced. Prince Harry’s memoir has a publication date: Jan. 10, 2023. An image of Toni Morrison will grace a U.S. postage stamp. George R.R. Martin is “three-quarters of the way done” with The Winds of Winter. Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, has died. More than a dozen titles are new to the bestseller lists. 

Best sellers in literary criticism, October 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Spooky booklists arrive in time for Halloween. Publishing professionals sign an open letter calling for PRH to reconsider Amy Coney Barrett’s book. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for No Plan B by Lee Child & Andrew Child. Memoirs by Matthew Perry, Jemele Hill, Richard E. Grant, and AC/DC musician Brian Johnson get buzz. Plus, a series based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go will stream on Hulu.  

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber wins the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for The House of Rust. PEN America releases “Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing.”  Best of 2022 booklists arrive, along with interviews with Phil Rosenthal, Kevin Nealon, Ross Gay, Lee Child and Andrew Child, Colleen Hoover, chef Sean Sherman, and Jeff Pearlman. George Orwell will be serialized on Substack. And actor and author Leslie B. Jordan has died at the age of 67.

No Plan B by Lee Child and Andrew Child tops library holds lists this week. Winners of the Diverse Book Awards are announced. People’s book of the week is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, and USA Today launches its book club with a Twitter Spaces conversation on Stephen King’s Fairy Tale. Matthew Perry’s forthcoming memoir gets buzz. A new Star Wars movie is in the works, and Netflix’s The Lying Life of Adults TV series, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, gets a premiere date. Finally, one LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. 

The 2022 Cundill History Prize finalists and the An Post Irish Book Awards shortlist are out. Plentiful interviews highlight conversations with Gabrielle Blair, Celeste Ng, Tom Felton, Clint Hill, Geena Davis, John Irving, Kevin Lambert, Kelly Ripa, Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Illyanna Maisonet, Mamadou Ndiaye, George Saunders, Anand Giridhardas, Aamina Ahmed, Imani Perry, and Kyle Spencer. Adaptations are in the works for Marc Olden’s Black Samurai book series, The Accidental Gangster by Orlando Spado, Tracy Sierra’s The Corner, and The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose.

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.

Oprah picks Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver for her book club. Esi Edugyan wins $5K Victoria Book Prize for Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling. Ruth DeFries wins the 2022 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for What Would Nature Do?: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Colleen Hoover’s It Starts with Us. A travel diary details the strange Gone Girl Cruise at Slate. Plus, Simon & Schuster Audio will release The Trump Tapes on October 25.

Best sellers in microbiology, October 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Shehan Karunatilaka wins the Booker Prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Kim de l’Horizon wins the 2022 German Book Prize for Blood Book. Violet Kupersmith wins the Bard Fiction Prize for Build Your House Around My Body. The November LibraryReads list is out, including top pick Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake. Interviews arrive with Katherine Corcoran, John Irving, Ralph Macchio, Chelsea Manning, Jon Meacham, and Geena Davis. 

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It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover leads holds this week and becomes Simon & Schuster's most pre-ordered novel of all time. Four LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen. Paul Newman's posthumous memoir gets buzz. Reviews arrive for new books by George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, and Cormac McCarthy. Plus, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy will publish a collection of his war speeches in November. 

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Preti Taneja wins the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize for Aftermath. The 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist is out. Author interviews explore conversations with Fatimah Asghar, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Prince Shakur, Nada Alic, Joshua Prager, Ed Yong, and Constance Wu. There is adaptation news for Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel, Essex County, and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.

There is news coverage on the 2022 literary MacArthur fellows, Governor General's Literary Awards finalists, Kensington Publishing’s acquisition of Erewhon Books, and the closing of Hallmark Publishing. The best-sellers lists feature Righteous Prey by John Sandford, Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman, and Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future by Yung Pueblo. Also, interviews with Ramona Reeves, Orhan Pamuk, Tochi Onyebuchi, Leslye Penelope, Kay Harel, Ling Ma, and Jacob Goldstein.

The 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards and Christy Awards finalists are announced, as is the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals longlist. The Center for Fiction awards Sarah McGrath, editor in chief of Riverhead Books, with the 2022 Medal for Editorial Excellence. Vivian Gornick will receive the 2023 Hadada Award from The Paris Review. Padma Lakshmi is named master of ceremonies for the 2022 National Book Awards. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for David Baldacci’s Long Shadows. Emily Henry’s romance novel People We Meet on Vacation and Kalani Pickhart’s award winning debut novel I Will Die in a Foreign Land will get big screen adaptations. Finally, beloved actress Angela Lansbury has died at the age of 96.  

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Best sellers in geography, October 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

The 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize announces its women-dominated shortlist, and the 2022 Richell Prize shortlist is announced. Abduljalil al-Singace is named PEN’s International Writer of Courage. Long Shadows by David Baldacci leads library holds this week. Two LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Plus, news about an adaptation of Jessica Simpson’s memoir, Open Book, and a premiere date is announced for the Hulu adaptation of Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred. 

Shortlists are announced for the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2022 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. There are author interviews aplenty, with Ryan Lee Wong, Elizabeth McCracken, Kathleen H. Woods, Jasmine Guillory, Geena Davis, Nora McInerby, Saeed Teebi, Chelene Knight, Tricia Hersey, Jessica Knoll, Namwali Serpell, Gabor Maté, and Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman. There is adaptation news for John Waters’s Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance, Anne Rice’s “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” series, and Stephen King’s Fairy Tale.

Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. The top best-sellers this week are Verity by Colleen Hoover, The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik, Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories by Kelly Ripa, and Killing the Legends by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Author interviews feature the voices of Linda Ronstadt, Lydia Millet, Lauren Acampora, Constance Wu, and Samantha Hunt. Finally, there is news that Keanu Reeves will direct an adaptation of his comic book series BRZRKR.

Best sellers in music and art, September 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

From witches falling in love to classics getting romantic retakes, the upcoming season offers many titles to add to TBR piles with many happily-ever-afters in store for readers.

The 2022 National Book Awards finalists are announced. Saba Sams wins the BBC national short story award. Rebecca Solnit receives the Paul Engle Prize. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Celeste Ng's buzzy book, Our Missing Hearts.  Interviews arrive with William Shatner, Mia P. Manansala, Carell Augustus, Katie Nicholl, and Jess Kidd. Al Pacino inks a deal for a memoir. Plus, country music legend and author Loretta Lynn, has died at the age of 90. 

October book club picks feature The Night Ship by Jess Kidd, River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan, The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn, and Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Also on the book club list is Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, which gets a 4-star review from USA Today. The inaugural Utopia Awards winners are announced. Interviews arrive with Adam Hochschild, Constance Wu, Elizabeth Strout, Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, GennaRose Nethercott, and Thomas E. Ricks.

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng leads holds and coverage this week. It is also People's book of the week and Reese Witherspoon's October book club pick. Audiofile announces the October Earphones Award Winners. Six LibraryReads and eight Indie Next picks publish this week. October’s Costco Connection is out featuring It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover and Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken gets reviewed. Plus, LitHub teases a forthcoming 17th century wilderness novel from Lauren Groff. 

Shortlists are announced for the 2022 Diverse Book Awards and Kindle Storyteller Award. Author interviews are plentiful this week, including conversations with Jarvis Jay Masters, Melissa Villaseñor, Kamila Shamsie, Ling Ma, Sonya Huber, Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemim, Chelsea Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Constance Wu, Calvin Kasulke, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman; also, rare and early interviews with Cormac McCarthy. There will be a new partnership in book adaptations between Titan Books and Alcon Publishing.

There are awards announcements for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Starting at the top of the best-sellers lists are Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks, The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman, Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, and Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Also, interviews with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jasmine Guillory, and Fresh Air revisits a 2012 interview with the late Hilary Mantel.

James Patterson donates $5.3M to Howard University, PEN America, and Scholastic Book Clubs. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Fredrik Backman’s buzzy novel The Winners. Tom Hanks previews his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, due out from Knopf in May 2023. Constance Wu’s memoir Making a Scene gets buzz, and Namwali Serpell’s novel The Furrows: An Elegy gets reviewed. Plus, BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light will continue in tribute to the late author. 

Best sellers in education, September 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

The 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist is revealed today. The 2022 Strand Critics and the 2022 Elgin Awards winners are announced. USA Today launches a monthly book club. The first selection is Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Storytel launches in France. A forthcoming unauthorized biography of Anthony Bourdain gathers buzz as does the late Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, both due out in October. Plus, LitHub shares bookies’ odds for the Nobel Prize.

The Winners by Fredrik Backman leads holds this week. Barnes & Noble announces the 2022 Discover Prize shortlist. One LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout. Plus, continued appreciation for Hilary Mantel’s literary legacy. 

Book prize announcements abound including the 2022 Cundill History Prize shortlist, CBC Nonfiction Prize, Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and the Financial Times Book of the Year shortlist. There is more coverage on book banning for Banned Books Week and of author Hilary Mantel’s passing. Author interviews showcase conversations with Tracey Lien, Yiyun Li, Cai Emmons, Robert Hardman, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. There is adaptation news for Anthony Horowitz’s book Magpie Murders.

There are announcements for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction longlist and the PEN Presents shortlist. Best sellers abound this week featuring top books such as The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart, Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills, Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Blowback by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe, Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman, Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté. Author interviews explore conversations with Nada Alic, Richard Osman, Orlando Figes, Edward Enninful, and Yiyun Li.

The 2022 American Poets Prizes are announced. The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction finalists and the German Book Prize shortlist are announced. The 7th edition of BookNet Canada’s State of Publishing report is released. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman. Recommendations for Hispanic Heritage Month arrive along with LitHub's “Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview.” Plus, inspirational fiction author Karen Kingsbury launches a production company to bring her bestselling books to the big screen.

Best sellers in the topic "History of Science," September 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

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Banned Books Week coverage continues. Rick Mercer wins the 2022 Stephen Leacock Medal. Jung Hae Chae wins Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for Pojangmacha People. The 2022 British Fantasy Awards and 2022 McIlvanney Prize winners are announced. S. A. Cosby previews his forthcoming thriller, All the Sinners Bleed, due out June, 2023. Plus, Spotify looks to compete with Audible with its new pay-per-book audiobooks hub.

Banned Books Week launches amid rising book challenges. The National Book Award longlists are announced along with the winners of the 2022 Ignyte Awards. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman tops holds this week. Six LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. Plus, People's book of the week is Solito by Javier Zamora.

The 2022 National Book Awards for Nonfiction and Poetry longlists are out. The 2022 BBC National Short Story Award shortlist is also announced. LibraryReads has released the top ten books published in October. Conversations arrive with Javier Zamora, Mitch Albom, May-lee Chai, Elissa Bassist, Ling Ma, Jane Jensen (aka Eli Easton), Andrea Barrett, Buzz Bissinger, and Woo-kyoung Ahn. Adaptations are being made of Steven Rowley’s The Guncle and Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals.

The 2022 National Book Awards for Translated Literature longlist is out. More award news includes the Northern California Book winners and the Mo Siewcharran Prize shortlist. At the top of the best sellers lists this week are Fairy Tale by Stephen King, Desperation in Death by J. D. Robb, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, Solito by Javier Zamora, and Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong. Author interviews feature conversations with Gabriel Blackwell, Joe Pompeo, W. David Marx, Celeste Headlee, Lisa McNair, and Nina Totenberg. Plus, an adaptation for Geraldine Brooks’s Horse is in the works.

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The 2022 Anthony Awards, Writers’ Award, and Washington State Book Award winners are announced. The 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize names finalists and the Ngaio Marsh Awards shortlists are revealed. Oprah picks That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters for her book club. The Guardian reviews Kate Atkinson's forthcoming book, Shrines of Gaiety. Jann S. Wenner's memoir, Like a Rolling Stone, continues to buzz. Plus, LitHub shares a Book-to-Screen Fall Preview.

Best sellers in politics and law, September 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Lambda Literary announces award-winning poet and writer Samiya Bashir as its new Executive Director. Dopesick, based on the book by Beth Macy, garners an Emmy win for Michael Keaton. Romance drives sales in this week's NPD Book Scan. Lessons by Ian McEwan gets buzz and a 4-star review from USA Today. Interviews arrive with Andrew Sean Greer, Ian McEwan, Rachel Aviv, Meghan Gilliss, and Kate Beaton. EW has a first look at Samantha Irby's forthcoming Quietly Hostile, due out in May 2023. Emma Straub pens a remembrance of her late father Peter Straub. Plus, a preview of Netflix’s forthcoming film, The School for Good and Evil, based on the book by Soman Chainani.

Art Spiegelman will receive the 2022 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Margaret Hickey wins the 2022 Danger Prize for Cutters End. Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People's fall book preview arrives along with interviews and profiles of Ian McEwan, Kate Beaton, Cynt Marshall, and Betty Gilpin. Plus, the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians trailer is out. 

Award news arrives for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, James Cropper Wainwright Prize, and CBC Nonfiction Prize. Angry Robot, a publisher known for science fiction titles, is launching a crime fiction imprint called Datura Books. Also, page to screen.

Tracie D. Hall, Executive Director of the American Library Association, receives the 2022 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community from the National Book Foundation. The 2022 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Books of the Year winners are out, as are the Dragon, Eugie, and Mike Resnick Memorial Awards. Rising to the top of the bestseller lists are Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, and Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen. Mercedes Lackey’s "Valdemar" book series will be adapted for television.

The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist are announced. The 2022 McIlvanney Prize finalists are announced, and the 2021 Sidewise Award winners are announced. On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton is the new Reese Witherspoon book club pick and The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh is the GMA pick. Fall booklists arrive and Esquire celebrates Stephen King Week. R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries is in development as a limited series. Plus, best-selling horror writer Peter Straub, who died at 79, is remembered.

Best sellers in biology, August 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

The Hugo Awards and Nommo Awards are announced. Audiofile announces the September Earphones Award Winners. Fairy Tale by Stephen King leads holds this week. September Book Club picks arrive. Five LibraryReads and nine Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis. September’s Costco Connection is out featuring buyers' picks The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman and Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks.

Best sellers in business and economics, August 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

There is more news coverage on local libraries and book banning and a save from Nora Roberts to a defunded Michigan library. Book recommendations arrive for Fall. Rising to the top of the best sellers list this week are Babel by R.F. Kuang, Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter, Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs, and Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner. 

The art and craft of cookbooks take the cake in LJ’s first preview focused on this beloved subject.

A Virginia judge rejects obscenity lawsuit over book sales to minors. Rachel DeLoache Williams sues Netflix for defamation in Inventing Anna. Interviews are out with Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jamie Fiore Higgins, Laura Warrell, Courtney Denelle, Mia Mercado, and Lee Sansum. Plus, the Agatha Christie Estate sues over "Queen of Crime" designation. 

The 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award short list is announced, including works by Ash Davidson, Hermione Hoby, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Dawnie Walton. Claire Oshetsky and Wayétu Moore win the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize. The 2022 Seiun Awards winners are announced. The Washington Post’s standalone book section, Book World, returns September 25. Madison Lawson's forthcoming novel, The Registration, will be adapted for film. 

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid leads holds this week. It is also People's book of the week. Three LibraryReads selections and six Indie Next picks publish this week. Tess Gunty wins the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize for The Rabbit Hutch. The 2022 Davitt Award and Ned Kelly Award winners are announced. Plus, Meg Cabot announces a new "Princess Diaries" book, due out in March.

Awards announcements abound with the 24th International Latino Book Awards, the 2022 Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists, the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize longlist, and the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. Author interviews are out with Mimi Zhu, Anna Dorn, Joshua Whitehead, Beth Macy, Jamila Rowser, Robyn Smith, Craig Morgan and Todd McFarlane. There is adaptation news for Elin Hilderbrand’s book The Perfect Couple and The Idea of You by Robinne Lee.

The James Tait Black Prizes and the Prix Utopiales finalists are announced. Leading the best sellers lists this week are All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers, The Challenge by Danielle Steel, Overkill by Sandra Brown, Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother by James Patterson and Chris Mooney, and What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill. Author interviews feature conversations with Anya Kamenetz, Michael Beckley, and Jared Kushner. There is adaptation news for The Nigerwife by Jessica Walter, Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellor, Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon, Pyrates by Chris Archer, and 99 Days by Katie Cotugno.

Walmart launches a bookclub, featuring Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood as its first selection. Afterlives by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah gets reviewed. Rasheed Newson's My Government Means To Kill Me gets buzz and Frances Mayes discusses her new book, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home. Plus, NYPL releases “Harry Styles's House of Books,” featuring titles recommended by the pop star over the years.

Buying and stocking policies at Amazon and B&N upset authors and publishers. The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist is announced. The 2022 Ditmar Awards Preliminary Ballot is announced. The Beijing International Book Fair is postponed until November. Time has an interview with Taylor Jenkins Reid about the price of ambition. Plus, Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket and Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika will be adapted as TV series. 

In February, after being alerted to the issue by a group of Massachusetts librarians, Library Freedom Project and Library Futures released a joint statement demanding accountability from Midwest Tape President and Hoopla founder Jeff Jankowski about hateful content and disinformation regarding COVID-19, the Holocaust, LGBTQIA+ people, and other topics on his company’s massively popular electronic content platform for public libraries. Six months later, there is still a great deal of disinformation to be found in Hoopla’s collection on topics ranging from LGBTQIA+ experiences to reproductive health to vaccines.

Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger leads holds this week. The Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist is out, and the Laurel Prize announces its longlist. The Library of Congress 2022 National Book Festival returns in person, with live coverage from C-SPAN. Bolu Babalola’s Honey and Spice is the new TikTok Book Club pick. Four LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale. Plus, House of the Dragon premieres. 

The 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award finalists list is announced. There is a report by PEN America about educational gag orders. Author interviews are out with Brenda Lozano, Barbara Bourland, Douglas Stuart, Katie Welch, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Anthony Marra. There will be an adaptation of Rozlan Mohd Noor’s 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders.

After the attack on Salman Rushdie, his book The Satanic Verses is back on the best sellers list. Topping the best sellers lists this week are Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner, The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell, I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss, and The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank. There is adaptation news for Young-Ha Kim’s Diary of a Murderer.

Best sellers in engineering and technology, July 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Wil Haygood will receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from The Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The International Booker Prize names its 2023 jury. PEN America, NYPL, and PRH partner to present Stand with Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write in NYC on August 19. LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for Overkill by Sandra Brown. Joanna Gaines announces her forthcoming memoir, The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters, due out November 8.

When the summer days are long and hot, and readers are busy running between neighborhood block parties and backyard barbecues, cooking up a delicious seasonal meal may be at the bottom of the to-do list. However, summer is the perfect time to take advantage of bountiful fresh, local produce and cooking methods beyond the stovetop and oven. These suggestions will help readers slow down, eat well, and enjoy the simplest of summer pleasures.

September's LibraryReads list is out, including top pick The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell. The Aurora Awards, Splatterpunk Awards, and Sir Julius Vogel Awards winners are announced. NEH announces new grants. Librarian Lynn Lobash is quoted in a NYT article ”Choose Your Own Literary Adventure.”  In adaptation news, Jenna Bush Hager and her company will adapt Jamie Ford's The Many Daughters of Afong Moy as a series and Constance Wu will produce a series adaptation of Ling Ling Huang’s forthcoming novel Natural Beauty, due out in April 2023. 

The attack on Salman Rushdie dominates book news. Overkill by Sandra Brown leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Interviews arrive with James Patterson, Grace Ellis, and Amanda Jayatissa. Apple TV+ completes casting for the adaptation of by Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry. Plus, Vanity Fair explores the uneasy friendship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, through a "trove of never-published archival material."