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Simon & Schuster announces a new board of directors. More Best of the Year lists arrive, including crime novels and memoirs. The Penguin Random House Winter Book & Author Festival 2023 is today. A California book club finishes Finnegans Wake 28 years after it starts. Megan Follows directs an all-star Canadian cast in a new audio edition of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Influential writer, director, and producer Norman Lear dies at 101. Plus, new title bestsellers.

Tyriek White wins the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for We Are a Haunting. Patricia Engel wins the Dos Passos Prize. Ten writers receive Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants. Christianity Today announces its 2024 Book Awards. Reese Witherspoon selects Ella Berman’s Before We Were Innocent for her December book club. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney, which shot to #1 on Amazon yesterday, even selling out for a short time. Interviews arrive with Alexis Soloski, Gabrielle Korn, Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene, Margo Steines, Cynthia Manick, Debbie Urbanski, Tariq Trotter, Samantha Harvey, and Liz Cheney.

Best of the Year booklists and recommendations arrive from The Atlantic, Slate, The Millions, Vogue, LA Times, The New Yorker, and more. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon is December’s GMA Book Club pick. January's Indie Next Preview features #1 pick The Fury by Alex Michaelides. Plus, Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, publishes today.

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney leads holds this week. Thirteen LibraryReads and 12 Indie Next picks publish this week, including Hall of Fame pick and People book of the week The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. December’s Costco Connection features a new paperback edition of Never Lie by Freida McFadden. Audiofile announces the December 2023 Earphones Award Winners. Longlists for the Wingate Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize are announced. “Rizz” is named Oxford’s Word of the Year. Plus, more best of the year lists, including LJ’s Best Books of 2023.

Sandra Day O’Connor, author and the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, has died. Penguin Random House sues Iowa over book banning. David R. Samson wins the $60K Balsillie Prize for Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good. Amazon's editors recommend the best books of December. Andrew Miller is named president and publisher of Henry Holt. Plus, Page to Screen.

Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones Book of the Year 2023 for her “instant classic” Impossible Creatures. AudioFile showcases the Best Audiobooks of 2023. Best Books of the Year lists also arrive from Publishers Lunch, The New Yorker, and WSJ. New title best sellers include Nora Roberts, James Patterson, Danielle Steel and more. Liz Cheney's forthcoming book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, arrives next week. Plus, author and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100. 

Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom win Polari Prizes. Ransom’s book The Whale Tattoo will also be adapted for film. Apple reveals its top books of 2023. Omid Scobie’s Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival courts reviews and controversy. Two pop culture books arrive with buzzy details: Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage & Alan Sepinwall, and Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars. Savannah Guthrie announces her forthcoming faith-based book, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere, due out in February. And Paul Greengrass is set to direct a film adaptation of T.J. Newman's novel Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421.

NYT selects the 10 Best Books of 2023. Ed Yong wins the Royal Society Science Book Prize for An Immense World. Robbie Arnott wins the Voss Literary Prize for his novel Limberlost. NPR’s Morning Edition reports on how some groups are hoping to change how selection is handled in public libraries. Interviews arrive with Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, Nita Prose, Sam Wasson, Maru Ayase, Kenneth Womack, and more. Anon Pls. by Deuxmoi will be adapted for TV. Plus, Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”

Paul Lynch wins the Booker Prize for Prophet Song. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose leads holds this week. Jenna Bush Hager picks We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein (also People’s book of the week) for her book club. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. NPR releases Books We Love, NYPL publishes its Best Books of 2023, and NYT announces its 100 notable books of 2023. Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying turns 50. Plus, a new documentary, The ABCs Of Book Banning, explores the impact of book bans in Florida public schools.

John Vaillant wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World. Kim Stanley Robinson wins the Hans Carl von Carlowitz Sustainability Award for The Ministry for the Future. The winners of the National Outdoor Book Awards are announced. Waterstones shares its books of the year for Scotland and Wales; Blackwell’s also announces its books of the year. The shortlist for the CBC Poetry Prize is released. Washington Post and Book Riot name their best books of 2023.

The winners of the National Book Award are announced: Justin Torres’s Blackouts, Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [åmot], and Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain, tr. by Bruna Dantas Lobato. Halik Kochanski wins the Wolfson History Prize for Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939–1945. Kirkus lists its best fiction of 2023. Washington Post shares more picks for the best books of 2023. Plus new title best sellers.

Sarah Bernstein wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Study for Obedience. ALA unveils the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals finalists. Two sponsors have withdrawn ahead of tonight’s National Book Award ceremony, due to planned author statements over the Israel-Hamas war. Amazon selects its best books of 2023, including #1 pick The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Time reveals its 100 must-read books of 2023. Plus, Publishers Weekly reports on Hachette’s “major and largely unprecedented” restructuring.

James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is named the 2023 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. B&N’s Author of the Year is David Grann. The Edge by David Baldacci leads holds this week; titles by Martha Wells, Mitch Albom, Michael Cunningham, and Jonathan Karl are also in demand. Six LibraryReads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan. Plus, the singer Pink announces she will distribute banned books at her Florida concerts.

Benjamin Myers wins the Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Cuddy. Mosab Abu Toha wins the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry for Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. Tania Branigan wins the Cundill History Prize for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution. The winners of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards are announced. The longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize for issue-driven fiction is also announced. Librarians are filing workplace discrimination claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to oppose book bans and their firings.

The Pacific Northwest Book Awards shortlist is announced, along with shortlists for the Nature Writing Prize, the Foyles Books of the Year, and the DRF Writers Award. Luis Mateo Díez wins Cervantes Prize. Earlyword’s November GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, while Time explores how Rebecca Yarros’s novels became a “romantasy Booktok phenomenon.” Plus, Shakespeare’s Folio turns 400.

Jean-Baptiste Andrea wins France’s Prix Goncourt for his novel Watching Over Her. Finalists for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year are announced. The 2022 Endeavour Award shortlist is announced. Barbra Streisand’s memoir, My Name Is Barbra, gets reviews and buzz. Interviews arrive with Stephanie Land, Shannon Sanders, Philip Norman, and Sigrid Nunez. Entertainment Weekly shares an excerpt from Stephen King’s forthcoming story collection, You Like It Darker, due out in May. And Wall Street Journal stops publishing its best seller lists.

Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing sequel, Iron Flame, leads holds this week. NYT profiles Yarros and her best-selling series. Michael Connelly’s Resurrection Walk and Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited memoir, My Name Is Barbra, also buzz. Nine LibraryReads and nine Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Above the Salt by Katherine Vaz. Audiofile announces the November 2023 Earphones Award winners. Class by Stephanie Land is the November GMA book club pick.

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah wins the adult division of the Diverse Book Awards. Winners are announced for Bookshop.org UK’s inaugural Indie Champions Awards. Poets&Writers issues its “5 Over 50” list of the best debut poetry authors. Shortlists are announced for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Second Collections and the Waterstones Book of the Year Award.

Winners are announced for Taste Canada Awards for cookbooks and food writing. Finalists are announced for Canada’s National Business Book Awards. Southern Book Prize finalists are revealed, representing “bookseller favorites from 2023 that are Southern in nature—either about the South or by a Southern writer.” Plus new title best sellers.

Nandini Das wins British Academy Book Prize for Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire. The co-winners for this year’s Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award are announced. November book club picks arrive, including The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe (Read with Jenna), Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major (Reese Witherspoon), and  Absolution by Alice McDermott (B&N). People shares the latest known photo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, from Kenneth Womack’s new book, Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans. A You.gov online poll shows that nearly half of Americans have not tried ebooks.

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters wins Barnes and Noble’s 2023 Discover Prize. The World Fantasy Awards winners are announced. Spooky booklists arrive just in time for Halloween. Rebecca Yarros’s best-selling book Fourth Wing and its forthcoming sequel, due out next week, are headed to TV. Plus, KKR finalizes the deal to buy Simon & Schuster.

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich leads holds this week. Jenna Bush Hager’s November book club pick is The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe. People’s book of the week is Absolution by Alice McDermott. Publishers Weekly releases its list of the best books of 2023. Booklists help to support understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Plus, beloved actor Matthew Perry, who released his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing last year, has died at the age of 54.

Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality wins the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. The shortlist is announced for Scotland’s National Book Awards. Salman Rushdie says that if authors are only allowed to write characters similar to themselves and their own experiences, “the art of the novel ceases to exist.”

Maria Stepanova wins the Berman Literature Prize for her family saga In Memory of Memory; the award honors works “in the spirit of the Jewish tradition.” The shortlist is announced for the Nan Shepherd Prize for underrepresented voices in nature writing. Finalists are announced for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. Plus new title best sellers and interviews with Tananarive Due, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Margaret Renkl, and more.

Scholastic reverses course on a controversial decision to separate books about race and gender at elementary book fairs. Tian Yi wins 4thWrite prize for her short story “The Good Son.” The Woman in Me by Britney Spears continues to buzz. Norton will distribute Yale University Press and Harvard University Press books starting in 2025. Interviews arrive with Tim O’Brien, John Stamos, Thurston Moore, Michael Harriot, and more. T&C gives a progress update on George R.R. Martin’s forthcoming book, The Winds of Winter. Plus, a third Paddington film, based on the character created by Michael Bond, is in the works.

Oprah picks Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend for her book club. Interviews arrive with John Stamos, Melissa Newman, McKay Coppins, and Tan Twan Eng. CrimeReads hosts a roundtable on indigenous horror, and Shondaland considers “The Long Legacy of Book Clubs.” Plus, Marisa Meltzer’s Glossy will be adapted for TV.

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.

The shortlist is announced for the An Post Irish Book Awards. No Country for Girls by Emma Styles wins the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik win the Toronto Book Award for Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO. U.S. authors and European publishing trade bodies call for action on generative AI. 

LeVar Burton to host National Book Awards. Winners are announced for the Forward Prizes for Poetry. LitHub reviews highs and lows from the New York Film Festival’s literary fare and hosts a conversation about Palestine between Masha Gessen and Nathan Thrall, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. There are interviews with Marie NDiaye, Lee and Andrew Child, N.K. Jemisin, and more. Plus new title best sellers. 

The longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence is announced. Revelations from Britney Spears’s forthcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, are buzzing. Scholastic courts controversy with its book fair policy. NYT writes about the reinvention of Barnes & Noble. Spooky bookslists arrive ahead of Halloween. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward gets reviewed. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for John Grisham’s The Exchange. Plus, there are interviews with Roxane Gay, Ziwe Fumudoh, Dolly Parton, Fran Lebowitz, Jada Pinkett Smith, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, and Minecraft author Max Brooks.

Finalists for the Cundill History Prize and the Cercador Prize are announced. NYT reports on Scholastic’s decision to separate titles that deal with race and gender in elementary book fairs. Interviews arrive with John Stamos, Sam Reece, Aida Rodriguez, Ziwe Fumudoh, Lawrence Wright, Emily Wilson, Rachel Maddow, and more. Michelle Williams will narrate the new Britney Spears audiobook memoir, The Woman in Me. American Fiction, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, has a new trailer. Plus, Colm Tóibín remembers Louise Glück for The Guardian.

John Grisham’s The Exchange, the highly anticipated sequel to his 1991 novel The Firm, leads holds this week. The Hamas-Israeli war leads to tensions, cancellations, and controversy at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Three LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel. Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry, based on the book by Bonnie Garmus, arrives. Plus, U.S. Poet Laureate and Nobel Prize–winning poet Louise Glück, who has died at the age of 80, is remembered.

Barnes & Noble issues its list of the best books of 2023. Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene win the Caine Prize for African Writing. Shortlists are announced for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Bookshop.org, Electric Literature, Paul English, and Joyce Linehan announce new initiative that allows any resident of Florida to order books that have been banned or challenged in that state, for free plus the cost of shipping.

James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and Héctor Tobar’s Our Migrant Souls win the Kirkus Prize. Geraldine Brooks’s Horse and Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa’s His Name Is George Floyd win the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Richard D. Kahlenberg’s Excluded wins the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Michael Rosen is awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. Spotify’s new audiobook streaming could have a devastating effect on audio sales. Plus coverage of the Barbara Bush Foundation’s 2023 National Celebration of Reading.

India issues criminal charges to Booker Prize–winning novelist Arundhati Roy over a 2010 speech. Kevin Lambert, Francine Cunningham & Sarah Ens win 2023 ReLit Awards. Earlyword’s October GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. Books by Jean Kwok, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bryan Washington, Terry Pratchett, and Justin Torres get buzz. Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse talks about advice at LitHub. Celebrity memoirs by Barbra Streisand and Julia Fox make the news.

In 2019, Kent District Library’s human resources department (HR) set out to strengthen its approach to staffing the organization. Our goals were to create greater equity in the selection process through reduction of implicit bias; improve the viability of candidates through competency testing; and ensure the quality of hires to help reduce first-year turnover, improve the diversity of the workforce, and ensure their competency on the job.

The 2023 £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction announces its shortlist. Blood Lines by Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Sophie Kinsella, Stuart Woods and Brett Battles, Chloe Liese, and Jean Kwok. Four LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Family Meal by Bryan Washington. Plus, James Patterson teams up with the late Michael Crichton on a novel publishing in June.

Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fiction finalists are announced for the Kirkus Prize. The shortlists for the Goldsmiths Book Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction are announced. PEN America is opening an office in Florida to combat the state’s book bans. Plus new title best sellers.

The National Book Award finalists are announced. Banned Books Week coverage continues. October book club picks arrive, including Safiya Sinclair’s memoir How To Say Babylon, The List by Yomi Adegoke, Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, and The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian. Paolo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist will be adapted for a feature film. Plus, Netflix’s All The Light We Cannot See, based on the novel by Anthony Doerr, gets a trailer.

Time names the 100 best mystery and thriller books of all time. The 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist is announced. Catharina Coenen wins the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. October booklists arrive. Rick Riordan teases potential future Percy Jackson books. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner turns 20. Plus, Netflix’s adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind gets a trailer.

Banned Books Week gets underway. Wildfire by Hannah Grace leads holds this week. Audiofile announces the October 2023 Earphones Award winners. Seven LibraryReads and eight Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar.

Safiya Sinclair’s How To Say Babylon: A Memoir is the latest Read with Jenna book club pick. Shortlists are announced for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Cundill History Prize. Plus, interviews with Mary Beard, Jill Duggar, and Melissa Lozada-Oliva.

Zain Khalid wins the Bard Fiction Prize for his debut novel, Brother Alive. Target picks The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray as the 2023 Book of the Year. Shortlists are announced for the Polari First Book Prize and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. Finalists are announced for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A California state law will fine schools for implementing book bans. Plus new title best sellers.

The FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power. Jorie Graham wins the Laurel Prize. Naomi Wood wins the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award. Finalists are named for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Hollywood Reporter goes behind the scenes during the final negotiations that ended the WGA strike. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith. Plus, CrimeReads celebrates 50 years of Spenser, Robert B. Parker’s iconic character

The Atlantic sifts through the dataset behind Books3, used to train generative AI without permission. Infodocket reports on AI book bans, ahead of Banned Books Week. The 2023 Elgin Awards winners are announced. Zadie Smith will headline the Vancouver Writers Fest, which takes place Oct. 16–22. Interviews arrive with C Pam Zhang, Zadie Smith, Kerry Washington, and more. Plus, Martha Stewart announces she is working on her 100th cookbook.

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Ken Follett, Mary Kay Andrews, James Patterson and Mike Lupica, and V.E. Schwab. Four LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Wellness by Nathan Hill. Memoirs in the news include Kerry Washington’s Thicker than Water and Cassidy Hutchinson’s Enough. Plus, Hollywood studios and WGA reach a tentative deal to end the 146-day strike.

Shortlists for the Booker Prize and the Financial Times/Schroders Business Book of the Year are announced. Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias by John Lorinc has won the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. A new PEN America report finds a 33% jump in school book bans. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Aparna Nancherla, Jo Nesbø, Michael Wolff, and more.

Eileen Rhodes was named one of Library Journal’s 2021 Movers & Shakers for her work bringing Open Educational Resources to Capital Community College in Connecticut, enabling students who struggled with the cost of textbooks to continue pursuing their degree. We recently reached out to Rhodes and learned she’s currently the interim library director for Connecticut State Community College, a role that’s shifted her priorities and sent her in new directions.

A new Simon & Schuster program highlights the merits of books that have been subject to censorship and will provide resources for fighting book bans. The Academy of American Poets announces the winners of its annual poetry prizes. LeVar Burton will serve as the honorary chair of this year’s Banned Books Week. Amazon will require publishers on Kindle to disclose when any of their content is generated by artificial intelligence.

ALA’s data on 2023 book challenges shows a surge this year. Shortlists for the German Book Prize and BBC Young Writers’ Award are announced. The Mellon Foundation appoints historian and scholar Kelly Lytle Hernández as its 2023 Fellow in Residence. Prominent novelists, including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult and Elin Hilderbrand, sue OpenAI. The September LoanStars list is out, featuring top pick The Armor of Light by Ken Follett. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Richard Osman’s The Last Devil To Die. The Hunger Games, based on the book by Suzanne Collins, returns to select theaters in October.  Plus, a verdict is delivered on the “Bad Art Friend” case.

Oprah picks Wellness by Nathan Hill for her book club. Wayne Johnston wins the 2023 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for his memoir, Jennie’s Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics. The 2023 British Fantasy Awards winners are announced. Nihar Malaviya is officially named CEO of Penguin Random House. Russell Brand’s publisher has paused all new projects, including a self-help book that was slated to publish this December. NYT explores “How TikTok Is Reshaping the American Cookbook.”  Plus, Kate DiCamillo reflects on the 20th anniversary of her award-winning children’s book The Tale of Despereaux, at Washington Post.

The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman leads holds this week. The National Book Awards announces its longlist for fiction. The 2023 winners of the McIlvanney Prize and the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize are announced. Rolling Stone cofounder Jann S. Wenner was removed from the Rock Hall of Fame board after an inflammatory interview with NYT while promoting his new book. People’s book of the week is Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. Anderson Cooper discusses his new book, Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, with CBS Sunday Morning. And American Fiction, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, wins the Toronto Film Festival’s top prize.

The National Book Awards announces its longlists for nonfiction and poetry. The Flow: Rivers, Waters and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer and The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole win the Wainwright Prize for nature writing. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Leila Aboulela, John Manuel Arias, Kate Atkinson, and more.

The National Book Awards longlist for translated literature is announced; the longlists for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be announced later today and tomorrow. Finalists are announced for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQIA+ emerging writers and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Plus new title best sellers and interviews with David Diop, Franklin Foer, Zakiya Dalila Harris, London Hughes, Daphne Kalotay, Angie Kim, Marisa Meltzer, Maggie O’Farrell, and Sarah Ogilvie.

The National Book Foundation rescinds Drew Barrymore’s invitation to host the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony host after her talk show resumes during the WGA strike. Sandra Cisneros wins the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. Kirsty Whatley wins the 2023 Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers. Earlyword’s September GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now, featuring early buzz for Alex Michaelides’s forthcoming novel, The Fury. The Pulitzer Prizes officially expand eligibility to noncitizens. Michael Chabon joins other writers to sue Meta AI platform for copyright infringement. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Code Red by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills.

The 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding announces a shortlist. The 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes are announced. PW rounds up September’s book club picks. Books by Lauren Groff, Walter Isaacson, Oprah Winfrey, and Arthur C. Brooks continue to buzz. Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing sequel, Iron Flame, will arrive November 7.  Water for Elephants musical, based on the novel by Sara Gruen, will open on Broadway this spring. Plus, a new Agatha Christie memorial statue is unveiled on a bench in Wallingford.

Code Red by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills leads holds this week. Titles by James Patterson, Jill Duggar, Lauren Groff, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Mick Herron also get attention. Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk arrives with buzz. The National Book Foundation will honor Rita Dove with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and LitHub announces the shortlist for 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award. People’s book of the week is Chenneville by Paulette Jiles. Oprah Winfrey and Arthur C. Brooks discuss their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. Plus, Stephen King’s novel Christine and its film adaptation turn 40.

The Ned Kelly Award winners, celebrating the best in Australian crime writing, have been named. The winners of the Davitt Awards, recognizing the best crime and mystery books by Australian women, are announced. The same effort that promotes book bans is spurring some libraries to leave the ALA over its defense of books. Edith Grossman, eminent translator of Spanish literature by Cervantes and Gabriel García Márquez, dies at 87. Journalist and author Peter C. Newman, who chronicled Canada’s power brokers, has died at 94.

Reese Witherspoon chooses Nina Simon’s Mother-Daughter Murder Night as her latest book club pick. The winners of this year’s Anthony Awards, for outstanding mystery books, are announced. Winners are also out for the 2023 Dragon Awards, for SFF novels. The longlist has been announced for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize, honoring the best Canadian novel, graphic novel, or short story collection. SFF novelist Rich Larson wins the 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction.

The Baillie Gifford Prize longlist is announced. The 2023 National Translation Awards longlist arrives, along with the 2023 Washington State Book Award nominees. Jenna Bush Hager picks Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood for her September book club. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Stephen King’s Holly. Author Carl Hiaasen pays tribute to Jimmy Buffet. Plus, WSJ reports that the FTC will file an antitrust suit against Amazon later this month.

Holly by Stephen King leads holds this week. The shortlist for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award is announced. Audiofile announces the September 2023 Earphones Award winners. People releases its fall must-read preview. September’s Costco Connection is out, featuring an interview with Swedish author Karin Smirnoff, who continues Lisbeth Salander’s story in The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons. ShelfAwareness reports on strike news from Powell’s Books. Plus, Ernest Hemingway’s letter detailing a plane crash that he survived has sold for $237,055 at auction.

The finalists for the 2023 Kirkus Prizes are announced. The finalists for the 2022 Sidewise Award for alternate history are announced. NYT reports on YA novelist John Green’s involvement in ensuring access to books in Indiana libraries. 

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim is the new GMA Book Club pick for September. The 2023 Dream Foundry Contest winners are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner. Esquire has a feature profile of author Chuck Palahniuk. LitHub pairs “10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras.” Ibram X. Kendi celebrates a cancer-free milestone. Plus, Crime 101, based on a novella by Don Winslow, sparks a bidding war between Netflix and Amazon.

Fall booklists and previews arrive. The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2023 shortlist is announced. Ingram adds print-on-demand capability to its Chambersburg, PA, location. Interviews feature Zadie Smith, Bryan Washington, Safiya Sinclair, David Kennerley, Myriam Gurba, and Harold Rogers. The release date of Dune: Part Two has been moved to 2024, due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Plus, A Haunting in Venice, based on Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party, arrives in select theaters early.

The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner leads holds this week. Three LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Happiness Falls by Angie Kim. Washington Post reports that the Pulitzer Prizes will consider opening books and arts prizes to noncitizens. The Polari Prize’s 2023 longlists are announced. A new trailer arrives for Cat Person, based on viral New Yorker story by Kristen Roupenian, which premieres in theaters October 6. And Bob Barker, legendary game show host, animal activist, and author, has died at the age of 99.

Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam. The UK’s Ackerley Prize for Autobiography names its 2023 shortlist. SFF and horror novelist (and music composer and conductor) S.P. Somtow is honored by the Thai National Committee for Culture. 

A new PEN America report documents a surge in “educational intimidation” bills. Salon speaks with former NFLer Michael Oher about The Blind Side controversy and his new book, When Your Back’s Against the Wall: Fame, Football, and Lessons Learned Through a Lifetime of Adversity. Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children by Emily Midkiff wins the 2023 Science Fiction Research Association book award; the SFRA’s other awards are announced as well.

The 2023 American Book Award winners are announced, including Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Edgar Gomez, Jamil Jan Kochai, Bojan Louis, Leila Mottley, and more; Maxine Hong Kingston will receive a lifetime achievement prize, and the late bell hooks will be awarded the Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism. The 2023 PEN Translates winners are announced. Fall book previews start to arrive, along with author interviews. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for After That Night by Karin Slaughter.

The longlist for the 2023 German Book Prize is announced. The 2023 Prix Rosny Aîné winners are announced. The Atlantic reports on the authors and books that are powering generative AI. Washington Post features the work of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb. Interviews arrive with Lauren Beukes, Karin Slaughter, Amber Caron, Josh Cook, Prachi Gupta, and Kate Zernike. Valorie Lee Schaefer reflects on the 25th anniversary of her book The Care and Keeping of You, at Elle. Plus, the 12th season of American Horror Story, based on the novel Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine, gets a new trailer.

After That Night by Karin Slaughter leads holds this week. Bolu Babalola wins the 2023 TikTok Book of the Year award for Honey and Spice. Alice Oseman and Holly Parker also garner awards. People’s book of the week is A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power. September’s LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick The September House by Carissa Orlando. Amy Winehouse: In Her Words publishes next week. Plus, Disney+’s Percy Jackson And The Olympians gets a trailer.

Author Michael Lewis, whose book inspired The Blind Side film, speaks out on the root cause of the family’s rift. Meanwhile, NYT examines Michael Oher’s version of the story, via his two memoirs. Plus book reviews, book news, and Page to Screen, which includes an animated version of a 16th-century Chinese novel, a spin-off of Frankenstein, and a true-crime thriller about an Irish Republican Army unit undercover in London.

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman wins the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The longlist is released for the Laurel Prize, honoring the best collection of environmental or nature poetry. Authors call on Justice Dept. and FTC to investigate Amazon’s alleged monopoly in the bookselling industry. NYT profiles Skyhorse Publishing. Washington Post runs an obituary for the late scholar Nechama Tec, a Holocaust survivor who authored Defiance.

Penguin Random House launches a new banned-books resource. An Iowa school district uses AI to remove titles from library collections. Booklists highlight Women in Translation Month. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell tops the August LoanStars list. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Lion & Lamb by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski. Interviews arrive with Alice Hoffman, Pidgeon Pagonis, Kai Cheng Tho, Jenn Shapland, Karan Feder, Drew Gilpin Faust, Laura Meckler, and more. LA Times and Datebook take a critical look at The Blind Side.

Music labels sue the Internet Archive over copyright infringement. Former NFL tackle Michael Oher, whose story was the inspiration for Michael Lewis’s book The Blind Side and its film adaptation, sues to end conservatorship. Katy Turner wins the Romance Novelists Association’s Joan Hessayon Award. The 2023 Splatterpunk Awards winners are announced. NYT highlights the popularity of Brooklyn Public Library’s limited-edition cards featuring Jay-Z.

Lion & Lamb by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski leads holds this week. Other buzzy books include titles by Alice Hoffman, James Rollins, T. Kingfisher, and Paul Murray. Five LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week; People’s book of the week is The English Experience by Julie Schumacher. Tess Gunty discusses her National Book Award–winning novel, The Rabbit Hutch, with CBS Sunday Morning. Award-winning poet Keith Waldrop has died at age 90.

The Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing has released its 2023 shortlist, and the Laurel Prize for best ecopoetry announces its 2023 longlist. Plus book reviews, book news, and Page to Screen, which includes a film about Stephen King, one spinning off of Dracula, and Red, White & Royal Blue, based on the novel by Casey McQuiston.

The longlist is announced for the Petrona Award for best Scandinavian crime novel. Finalists are announced for the Dragon Awards. Author Dmitry Glukovsky has been sentenced to prison in Russia for speaking out on Ukraine. Amazon removes books allegedly generated by AI that author Jane Friedman says were falsely attributed to her. The author of The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World sues filmmakers for copying his book for the 2023 Apple+ Tetris biopic. Alice K. Ladas, author of landmark book on female sexuality, dies at 102. Guitarist-songwriter-singer-memoirist Robbie Robertson, leader of ’60s and ’70s rock group the Band, has died at age 80.

Hallie Rich is named editor in chief of Library Journal. The 2023 Ned Kelly Awards announces its shortlist. CBC Books announces its Writers to Watch list. Earlyword’s August GalleyChatters rave about Jean Kwok’s forthcoming novel, The Leftover Woman, due out in October. LA Times explains what Simon & Schuster’s sale means for “authors, the industry—and you.” LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell. Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver leads a literary tour through Appalachia for NYT. Plus, Apple TV+ releases a new trailer for The Changeling, based on the best-selling book by Victor LaValle.

Simon and Schuster is sold for $1.62 billion to the private equity firm KKR, which also owns Overdrive. Masha Gessen wins Germany’s Hannah Arendt Prize. The 2023 Cundill History Prize longlist is announced. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex acquire rights to Carley Fortune’s Meet Me at the Lake. Brooke Shields announces a new book, to be published by Flatiron. Slate interviews James McBride about The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Librarians suggest strategies for adults just getting into books for the first time, at Vox.

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell leads holds this week. People’s book of the week is The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, which garners rave reviews as a “great American novel.” Paramount is close to an announcement on Simon & Schuster deal. The September 2023 Indie Next List Preview is out, featuring Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds. The 2023 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists are announced. Lin-Manuel Miranda will adapt Sol Yurick’s cult novel The Warriors into a stage musical. Bloomsbury USA president Adrienne Vaughan died in a boating accident on Friday.

The longlist for the Diverse Book Awards, the longlist for the Toronto Book Awards, and the winners of the 2023 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award are announced. Otto Penzler announces a new true-crime imprint, Crime Ink. Seiichi Morimura, who exposed Japanese wartime atrocities in a widely read book in Japan, has died at age 90. Composer Carl Davis, best known for his scores for literary adaptations like the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice, has died at age 86. Cookbook writer Marlena Spieler has died at the age of 74.

Finalists have been named for the Leacock Medal for humor writing and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award for books about thoroughbred horse racing. “A.I.’s Inroads in Publishing Touch Off Fear, and Creativity,” reports NYT. Bidding for Simon & Schuster draws to a close. A new novel by Emily Henry is coming in the spring. Faith-based groups and individuals are heading to libraries this Saturday to take part in a nationwide book reading event. There are obituaries for Lois Libien, Alan Roland, and Martin Walser.

Reese Witherspoon picks Tom Lake by Ann Patchett for her August book club. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for the novel, which is the top holds title of the week. Audiofile announces the August 2023 Earphones Award Winners. Fantasy Magazine will shutter after its October 2023 issue. The late Paul Reubens leaves behind an unfinished memoir. Billy Dee Williams’s forthcoming memoir, What Have We Here?, will publish in February. Interviews arrive with Tahir Hamut Izgil, Jamel Brinkley, Jake Tapper, Danielle Valentine, Richard E. Grant, and Ann Patchett. Imagine Entertainment acquires film rights to Daniel Kraus’s new novel, Whalefall. Barbara Hoffert will retire from Library Journal in September, after an esteemed career.

The Booker Prize longlist is announced, featuring new voices, including four debut authors. August book club picks arrive including Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake, Judy Blume’s The Summer Sisters, Elizabeth Acevedo’s Family Lore, and more. The Washington Post explores the exploding popularity of online book clubs and shares how to find the right one. August’s Costco Connection is out, with an author spotlight on Ann Patchett. Plus, plenty of summer booklists help to beat the heat.

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett leads holds this week. Other titles in demand include books by Sandra Brown, Kathy Reichs, Gillian McAllister, and Elizabeth Acevedo. Three LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Time’s Mouth by Edan Lepucki. A federal judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas state law banning librarians from giving minors materials deemed “harmful” to them.

The shortlists for the Alice Awards for illustrated books and the seventh annual Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award have been announced. There are remembrances of the late singer Sinead O’Connor and her memoir, Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life.

The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize longlist is announced. The Digital Public Library of America’s app, The Banned Book Club, allows access to books banned by location. Singer Sinead O’Connor, author of the memoir Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life, has died at age 56. Vulture’s new beach-read book club will start with Emma Cline’s The Guest. 

The Academy of American Poets announces its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows. Caryl Lewis wins Wales Book of the Year award for Drift. The British Fantasy Awards shortlists and World Fantasy Awards finalists are announced. Drew Barrymore will host the National Book Awards on November 15, with special guest Oprah Winfrey. Booksellers sue Texas over “Sexual Rating” law. Adaptations of Evelyn Waugh’s and Langston Hughes’s works are on the way. Season 2 of Netflix’s Heartstopper, based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman, has a new trailer. 

Shankari Chandran wins the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Eisner Comic Industry Awards are announced. George R.R. Martin updates fans on Winds of Winter, amid HBO deal suspension. Lee Rowland is named executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship. Trevor Noah previews his forthcoming graphic novel, Into the Uncut Grass, due in October. 

Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena leads holds this week. Four LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Somebody’s Fool by Richard Russo. A new translation of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov arrives. The 2023 Polari Prize longlists are announced. Tina Shaw wins the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize. The Washington Post looks into the Smithsonian’s abrupt cancellation of the Asian American literary festival. Plus, EW recaps news from San Diego Comic-Con 2023.

Former president Barack Obama shares the books he’s reading this summer. The Roald Dahl Museum calls the author’s racism “undeniable and indelible.” Ta-Nehisi Coates attends a South Carolina school board meeting to support a teacher banned from using his book Between the World and Me in class. Javier Zamora, author of the memoir Solito, tells LA Times, “It’s time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens.” Toya Wolfe’s Last Summer on State Street wins the 2023 Pattis Award, The Botanist by M.W. Craven wins the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and the Australian National Biography Award shortlist is announced.

The inaugural TikTok Book Awards shortlist, the winners of the LeBlanc Award for Brazilian literature, and the second annual Trigon Award winners are announced. Novelist Elizabeth Crook wins the 2023 Texas Writer Award. The Guardian asks, “Does it really matter who wrote it?” about the rise of ghostwritten celebrity fiction. Snoop Dogg will team up with rapper E-40 for a forthcoming cookbook. James Reston Jr., a historian and novelist who had a hand in Richard Nixon’s apology, has died at age 82. Stephen M. Silverman, reporter and historian of popular culture, has died at age 71.