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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.

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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.

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. 

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

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. 

Ruth Ozeki wins the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Book of Form and Emptiness. Topping the best sellers lists are Tom Clancy: Zero Hour by Don Bentley, Chainsaw Man, Vol. 11 by Tatsuki Fukimoto, Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, James Patterson by James Patterson by James Patterson, and Battling the Big Lie by Dan Pfeiffer. Interviews feature conversations with authors Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sloane Crosley, and LeVar Burton.

The James Beard Awards were announced this week including Media Award winners Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina Cho, Everyone's Table by Gregory Gourdet and JJ Goode, The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro, The Zuni Cafe Cookbook by Judy Rodgers, and more. The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan wins the 2022 European Bank Prize. Library Reads and LJ share read-alikes for Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket. Candice Fox’s thriller Gathering Dark and Andrew DeYoung's The Temps will get television treatment. Plus, LitHub releases its annual “Ultimate Summer 2022 Reading List.”

The 2022 Manitoba Book Awards are announced. Andrew Roberts wins the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch. Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh gets reviews and a book trailer. Interviews arrive with Jessica Nabongo, Ottessa Moshfegh, John Waters, Christine Kandic Torres, Liz Prato, Nina LaCour, Rachel Krantz, Katy Tur, Joseph Han, J. Kenji López-Alt, and Carla Hayden. Plus, author A.B. Yehoshua has died at the age of 85.

The surge of interest in fake news in the last decade has prompted an outpouring of research on how the American public interacts with misinformation. This list of suggested resources will appeal to academics, to high school and undergraduate students seeking better methods for engaging with the news, and to general readers. Together, they provide a well-rounded overview of the role of misinformation through history and what readers can do about it today.

The historical fiction novels most in-demand with readers are by Amor Towles, Isabel Allende, Nina de Gramont, Marie Benedict, and Bernard Cornwell.

Queen of the Beach Elin Hilderbrand’s The Hotel Nantucket leads holds this week. The Lambda Literary Award 2022 winners are announced. The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Longlist 2022 and the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards nominees are announced. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week, including Flying Solo by Linda Holmes and Horse by Geraldine Brooks. People’s book of the week is The Midcoast by Adam White. Plus, Tessa Bailey’s It Happened One Summer is getting a big screen adaptation. 

Award winners and finalists announced for the Lammy’s and Reading the West. There are many author interviews with Clyde W. Ford, Fariha Róisín, Anna Dorn, Vanessa Hua, Grant Ginder, Percival Everett, Nathan Chen, and Chris Blackwell. Also, adaptation news for Sekret Machines by Tom DeLonge and A. J. Hartley.

The 2022 Colorado Book Awards finalists and debut Utopia Awards nominees are announced. Topping the best seller lists are Sparring Partners by John Grisham, Meant to Be by Emily Giffin, Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris, and The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success by Ed Mylett. There are author interviews with Cara Black, Tara Moss, Colton Haynes, and Werner Herzog. A new podcast, Screen After Reading, starts with a conversation about Sarah Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal.

Oprah picks Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley for her book club. Reese Witherspoon selects Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen as her June read. The GMA pick is More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez. B&N releases its Best Books of 2022 (So Far) list. The work of Maxine Hong Kingston is revisited in a new Library of America edition. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia tops July's Loanstars list. Plus, read-alikes arrive for Sulari Gentill's buzzy book, The Woman in the Library.

Author Vanessa Riley’s new historical novel, Sister Mother Warrior, probes Haitian history and fictionalizes the lives of two women who figured prominently in the Haitian revolution: Abdaraya “Gran” Toya, a woman warrior who was part of the fight for freedom against the island’s French enslavers; and Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, a free woman of color who would become Empress of Haiti, ruling with Jean-Jacques Dessalines. LJ asked Riley about the inspiration for her newest novel.

Best sellers in the subject of U.S. history, May 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

LJ’s first preview of historical fiction shows the genre is flourishing with a myriad of forthcoming titles. Surveying the next seven months, World War II stories still dominate the offerings. But more titles set during World War I are entering the fray, as are Cold War–set novels and stories starring librarians as spies. Beyond these time frames, titles set in ancient periods through the 1960s also appear, often containing strong elements of mystery or romance. Other findings to note: a wide range of viewpoints offer new takes on history; iconic literary characters and historical figures appear in many books; and the use of dual time lines connecting past and present is prevalent. 

Aisha Sabatini Sloan wins the 2022 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Borealis. Julia Parry wins the 2022 RSL Christopher Bland Prize. The 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist is announced. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley gets critical attention. The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gets a trailer, as does Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Plus, Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar is coming to Hulu. 

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill leads holds this week. Six LibraryReads and ten Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz. These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany is the new Read with Jenna pick. Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley gets reviews and buzz. James Patterson's memoir publishes today. Plus, interviews arrive with Katie Gutierrez, Nabil Ayers, Tom Perrotta, Sulari Gentill, Leila Mottley, David Sedaris, Colton Haynes, Michelle Zauner, and James Patterson. 

The 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize shortlist is announced. Arnolda Dufour Bowes wins the 25th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award. June’s Costco Connection is out featuring By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley and The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery. Page to Screen spotlights adaptations arriving this weekend. Interviews arrive with authors Patrice Nganang, Susan Hartman, Keith Gessen, Imogen Binnie, Dan Chaon, Kim Kelly, and Golden Voice Narrator Juliet Stevenson. Plus, booklists highlight Pride Month reading. 

Sabba Khan wins the Jhalak prize for best book by a writer of color for The Roles We Play. Dan Breznitz wins the 2021 Donner Prize. The 2022 Indie Reader Discovery Award winners are announced. At the top of the best selling book lists are Nightwork by Nora Roberts, Clive Cussler's Dark Vector by Graham Brown, and Here's the Deal by Kellyanne Conway. Library Reads and LJ share read-alikes for John Grisham's Sparring Partners. There are author interviews with Holly Black, Colton Haynes, Casey McQuiston and Jessamine Chan. Plus, Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day turns 50.

The top pre-release holds for July 2022 across nonfiction subjects.

These books were selected by LJ reviewers and editors as titles of particular note in the June 2022 issue of the magazine. Along with all the starred reviews in the June issue, these are essential titles to know, buy, suggest, and read.

Audiofile announces the recipients of the 2022 Golden Voices Audiobook Lifetime Achievement honors. Audiofile also announces the June 2022 Earphones Award winners. Sui Annuka wins the 2022 Discoveries Programme from the Women’s Prize. B&N selects Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith for its June Book Club, which also gets featured by Amazon. Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour is the Target book club selection. Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can’t Win gets reviewed. There are interviews with David Sedaris, Aaron Foley, Karen Jennings, and Noon Naga. Plus, booklists arrive for Pride month.  

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Sparring Partners by John Grisham leads holds this week. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree trans. by Daisy Rockwell wins the 2022 International Booker Prize for translated fiction. Stephan Malinowski wins the €25,000 German Nonfiction Prize. IPA Prix Voltaire announces its shortlist. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People shares the best books for summer. Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris gets reviewed. Plus, buzz builds for Akwaeke Emezi's You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty. 

Joanna Chiu wins the 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for China Unbound: A New World Disorder. At the top of the best selling lists are In the Blood by Jack Carr, This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, and Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck. Interviews feature authors Dov Forman, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Simon Parkin. Adaptation news for Oliver Sacks’s book Awakenings.

The British Book Awards are announced with Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin, and Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson winning top fiction honors. You Are a Champion by Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka wins best overall book of the year. The 2022 Xingyun Awards finalists are announced along with the 2022 Kurd Laßwitz Preis winners. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book Nightwork by Nora Roberts. Amanda Gorman writes a poem about the Texas school shooting. Plus, Margaret Atwood takes a flamethrower to an unburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale. 

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

Alice Zeniter and translator Frank Wynne win the 2022 Dublin Literary Award for The Art of Losing. The 2022 Mythopoeic Awards finalists are announced. The 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist is announced. The 2022 Roswell Award and Prix Imaginales winners are announced. Sales spike for banned or challenged books. Interviews arrive with John Waters, Elif Batuman, Courtney Maum, and Emma Straub. Plus, The U.S. Book Show kicks off its first full day of programming including the Libraries are Essential Track.

The Nebula Awards winners are announced. Mohammed Alnaas wins the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards shortlist is announced. Fijian writer Mary Rokonadravu wins the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category. Nightwork by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. One LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner. Plus, booklists start to arrive for summer reading. 

The 2022 Orwell Prizes finalists and Owned Voices Novel Award are announced. Page to Screen highlights adaptations arriving this weekend. Interviews abound with authors Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Christine Quinn, Naheed Phiroze Patel, Tom Daley, Cynthia Clampitt, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Mesha Maren, and Fernando Flores.

The 2022 Firecracker Awards finalists are announced. There is a new banned book subscription service called Getting the Banned Back Together. At the top of the best sellers lists are The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner, The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times by Mark T. Esper, and How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil. Author interviews feature Colton Haynes and Stephanie Foo. There is adaptation news for Margalit Fox’s The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History.

Wesley Morgan wins the 2022 William E. Colby Award for The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley. NPR Books Editor Petra Mayer is honored with posthumous Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. The 2022 Nommo Awards shortlist is announced. The 2022 Premios Kelvin finalists are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Christina Lauren's buzzy book, Something Wilder. Colin Kaepernick will publish a memoir. Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress adaptation casts leads. Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen gets a reboot and Spiderhead gets a trailer. 

The 2021 Bram Stoker Awards are announced, with My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones taking the top award. Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson wins the Plutarch Award for best biography of the year. The 2022 Ohioana Book Award finalists are announced along with shortlists for the 2022 Indie Book Awards and the 2022 Seiun Awards. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill tops the June Library Reads list. The Atlantic and Zando partner to launch the new imprint, Atlantic Editions. Plus, The Believer literary magazine returns to its original publisher, McSweeney’s. 

Christina Lauren’s Something Wilder leads holds this week. Three LibraryReads selections and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. Entertainment Weekly releases its 2022 Summer Preview. The Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022 are announced. The U.S. Book Show kicks off next week. The Atlantic expands its book section. Plus, Stephen King weighs in on the new Firestarter film.

Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Tähtivaeltaja Award for Klara and the Sun, and Patricia Lockwood wins the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize with No One Is Talking About This. Interviews with authors feature Kennedy Ryan, Bud Smith, Norman Reedus, Chloe Caldwell, Jokha Alharthi, Jill Gutowitz, Viola Davis, Matt Sienkiewicz, Nick Marx, Lan Samantha Chang, and Omarion. There is adaptation news for Colleen Hoover’s Maybe Someday.

Celeste Mohammed wins the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Pleasantview. The 2022 Triangle Award winners are announced. Topping the best sellers lists are Book Lovers by Emily Henry, 22 Seconds by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, Book of Night by Holly Black, Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, and This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. Author interviews include conversations with Selma Blair, Jim Shepard, and Steve Almond.

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

Bono’s long-awaited memoir, Surrender, will arrive in November from Knopf. The 2022 Locus Awards announces top ten finalists. The 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award shortlist is announced. The Women’s Prize Trust announces Discoveries longlist. The Canadian Leisure and Reading Study 2021 from Booknet Canada is released. Unite Against Book Bans, a coalition of librarians, teachers and publishers to fight book challenges across the U.S., gets coverage. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is being adapted for television. 

These four books were selected by LJ reviewers and editors as titles of particular note in the May 2022 issue of the magazine. Along with all the starred reviews of the May issue, these are essential titles to know, buy, suggest, and read.

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded with The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen, winning the top prize for fiction. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Eliott, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert & Erin I. Kelly, and Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace are also winners. Shortlists arrive for the Canadian ReLit Awards, the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and the Trillium Book Awards. Plus, The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner and Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen are 4-star reads. 

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The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner leads holds this week. The 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award and the Christian Book Award winners are announced. U.S. Selfies announces shortlist. Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi is awarded the 2022 Enrique Anderson Imbert Award. Publishers Lunch and the American Booksellers Association are sponsoring a Fall/Winter Buzz Books Editors panel on May 18th. Three LibraryReads and four Indie Next selections publish this week. People's book of the week is Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass. Plus, Ncuti Gatwa becomes the first Black actor to play Doctor Who.

The 2022 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award finalists are announced. There are many author interviews sharing the perspectives of Angela Garbes, Steve Almond, Jennifer Egan, Julia Quinn, Jennifer Grey, and Courtney Maum. Plus, page-to-screen.

Lea Ypi wins the 2022 RSL Ondaajte Prize for Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History. Musician and author Dolly Parton has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The best seller lists are topped by City on Fire by Don Winslow, The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani, Shadow Fire by Christine Feehan, Finding Me by Viola Davis, and The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown. Interviews feature the thoughts of actor/writer Nyle DiMarco and Minnie Driver. There is adaptation news for The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.

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

Reese Witherspoon picks The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams for her May book club. Recently reviewed books on the topic of legal abortion are highlighted. The 2022 Omega Sci-Fi Awards finalists and 2022 Branford Boase Award shortlist are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Emily Henry’s buzzy Book Lovers. Chris Bohjalian’s forthcoming historical thriller, The Lioness, will be adapted for television. LJ's Spring Virtual Day of Dialog is set for tomorrow, May 5th. Plus, Disney+ teases a new Obi-wan Kenobi trailer for Star Wars Day. 

May book club picks are announced, including Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Read with Jenna), Elektra by Jennifer Saint (B&N), and The Change by Kirsten Miller (GMA). Audiofile announces the May 2022 Earphones Awards. The 2022 ReLit Awards shortlist is out. May book lists arrive. Plus, Lauren Groff publishes a new standalone story about literary privilege.

Book Lovers by Emily Henry leads holds this week. Four Library Reads and ten Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani. May’s Costco Connection is out, featuring two buyers’ picks: Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations by Lily Ebert and Dov Forman and The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell, which comes out tomorrow in paperback. Walter Isaacson discusses the challenges of writing about Elon Musk. Plus, interviews arrive with Myron L. Rolle, Isabel Cañas, Douglas Wolk, John Waters, Tyrus, and Jennifer Egan.

The Edgar Allan Poe Award winners are announced. A new book podcast, hosted by news anchor Charlie Gibson and his daughter, arrives. It starts with an Oprah Winfrey interview. There is adaptation news for Elizabeth McCracken’s The Giant’s House and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches.

Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear. At the top of the best sellers lists are Dream Town by David Baldacci, Beautiful by Danielle Steel, and Playing With Myself by Randy Rainbow. Interviews abound with authors Soon Wiley, Terry Crews, Jessi Klein, Rachel McAdams, Jon Krakauer, and Jeff VanderMeer.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces its shortlist. The 2022 Oregon Book Award winners are announced. The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announces the 2022 Dagger Award longlist. Sonia Sanchez receives the 2022 Jackson Poetry Prize. Audrey Molloy wins the 2021 Anne Elder Award. The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards. Nobel Literature Prize winning poet Louise Glück will publish her first prose narrative in October. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book City on Fire by Don Winslow.  

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

All the October 2022 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

Don Winslow announced his current book tour will be his last as he retires from writing in order to focus on political matters. The 76th Edgar Awards will be held Thursday. The winners of the 2022-2023 Rome Prize in literature are announced. Shortlists for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and The Atlantic Book Awards arrive. Tina Brown's new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil, continues to buzz. Plus, Dave Eggers’s The Every will be adapted for television at HBO. 

City on Fire by Don Winslow lights up holds lists this week. Two Library Reads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at the LA Times Book Festival, including Paul Auster, Deborah Levy, Jackie Polzin, Adam Schiff, Megan Abbott, and more. Zen Cho wins the 2022 Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown gets buzzy. People's book of the week is Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Plus, The Library of Congress acquires Neil Simon’s papers.

Oprah picks Finding Me by Viola Davis for her book club. Dawnie Walton wins the Aspen Words Literary Prize for The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. Shortlists are out for the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize, Crime Writers of Canada Awards, and Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. New interviews with Janelle Monáe, Chloe Caldwell, and Gary Janetti arrive. Adaptations are in the works for George Saunders’s “Escape from Spiderhead” and Camila Russo’s Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto Hackers is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum.

The shortlists are announced for both the Ondaatje Prize and Wolfson History Prize. Topping the best sellers this week are The Investigator by John Sandford, Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose by Dav Pilkey, Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder, and Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon, written with Sean Wilsey. Adaptation news arrives for Mockingbird by Walter Tevis, Rektok Ross’s Ski Weekend, and Sheila Bridges’s memoir, The Bald Mermaid.

Lauren Groff wins the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. The LA Times Festival of Books kicks off this weekend. Hillary Clinton will appear as a speaker at the Hay Festival, as part of the literary festival’s Women & Power series. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for the buzzy book Dream Town by David Baldacci. Adaptation news arrives for Mr. Malcolm's List, based on the book by Suzanne Allain. Plus, Martha Stewart Living magazine bids adieu with its May issue.

Andrea Elliott wins the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. The winners of the 2021 British Science Fiction Association Awards have been announced, with Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky winning best novel and Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. by Francesca T. Barbini, winning best nonfiction. Finalists for the 2022 Ignyte Awards, Sir Julius Vogel Awards, and Australian Book Design Awards are announced. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe and City on Fire by Don Winslow get reviewed. Jennifer Grey’s forthcoming memoir, Out of the Corner, continues to get buzz. 

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Dream Town by David Baldacci leads holds this week. Dead Space by Kali Wallace wins the Philip K. Dick Award; The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar receives a special citation. Two LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Bad and Boujee by Jennifer Buck has been pulled by the publisher due to criticism. Janelle Monáe’s The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer gets coverage. HBO Max adds Neil Gaiman’s “Dead Boy Detectives” series to its lineup. Plus, Sherlock Holmes heads to Broadway.

The New York Public Library announces the 2022 Young Lions Fiction Award finalists. The CBC Short Story Prize longlist is out. The New York Public Library also announces a partnership with Hachette, Macmillan, and Scholastic to make some banned or challenged books available to everyone. Interviews arrive with Lucy Corin, Claire Messud, Kate Folk, Diane Keaton, Valerie Biden Owens, Chelsea Vowel, Rachel Rose, and Scott Sonenshein.

The National Book Foundation announces the 5 Under 35 honorees. Brandon Taylor wins the Story Prize for Filthy Animals. The Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards shortlist is announced. New best sellers include The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, Book 15) by Tui T. Sutherland, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, Chainsaw Man, Vol. 10 by Tatsuki Fujimoto, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain, and Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet. 

Best sellers in European history, April 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

The U.S. Book Show and LJ Day of Dialog open registrations and share speaker lineups. Carter Malkasian wins the 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize for The American War in Afghanistan. NYPL selects the Cullman Fellows, including fiction writers Claire Luchette, Daniel Saldaña París, Brandon Taylor, and C Pam Zhang. Emily Henry's Book Lovers tops the May Loan Stars list. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for the buzzy book, The Investigator by John Sandford. Viola Davis continues to get coverage for her forthcoming memoir, Finding Me. Hulu’s Conversations with Friends, based on the book by Sally Rooney, premieres on May 15. Plus, Blackstone Publishing ends its library embargo.

LJ’s annual look into the art, ideas, and subjects of the graphic novel format spotlights several trends to note: web comics are bringing new readers and new voices into the field; nonfiction dominates and will continue to do so; and, within fiction genres, horror is predominant, and nostalgia for classic characters and concepts is on the rise.

The 2022 Aurora Awards ballot is announced. The Walter Scott Prize shortlist for historical fiction is announced. The 2022 Deutsche Science Fiction Preis finalists are also announced. Oprah Winfrey will interview Viola Davis about her forthcoming memoir, Finding Me on Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event. New buzzy memoirs by Delia Ephron, Robin Roberts, and Molly Shannon get widespread coverage. Interviews arrive with Susan Cain, Melissa Rivers, Melissa Chadburn, Reyna Grande, Andrey Kurkov, and Michael Meyer. The Velveteen Rabbit turns 100. Plus, BookRiot extols the virtues of taking an anti-burnout, reading vacation.

The Investigator by John Sandford leads holds this week. Three LibraryReads and seven Indie Next selections publish this week. People’s book of the week is Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron. The May Indie Next picks are out, featuring #1 selection Book Lovers by Emily Henry, which arrives May 3rd. The 2022 Tolkien Society Award winners are announced. Interviews arrive with Delia Ephron, Jonathan Van Ness, Douglas Stuart, Devon Price, and Dan Chaon. And, Jack Higgins, author of The Eagle Has Landed, dies at 92.

Awards news abounds for the 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist, Whiting Award, Anisfield-Wolf Award, and Hugo Awards finalists. Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves end up on best sellers lists together with two books. Interviews explore the thoughts of Jennifer Egan, Chelsea Bieker, Aamina Ahmed, Catherine Price, Chloé Cooper Jones, and Emmanuel Acho. There is adaptation news for Outside by Ragnar Jónasson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson, and Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys.

Awards news announced for The Royal Society of Literature’s 2022 Ondaatje Prize longlist, the 2021 Aurealis Awards shortlist, and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing finalists. This week’s best sellers include What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline, The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn, Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals: A Cookbook by Tieghan Gerard, The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families by Shannon Bream, and Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby. 

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

Rabih Alameddine wins PEN/Faulkner fiction award for The Wrong End of the Telescope. Audiofile announces the April 2022 Earphones Award winners. Waterstones launches £5,000 debut fiction prize. Reese Witherspoon picks True Biz by Sara Novic for her April book club. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, and Molly Shannon's forthcoming memoir, Hello, Molly! get coverage. Plus, physician and author Thomas Fisher discusses The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER. 

This edition of LJ’s thrice-yearly list of top debut novels covers the spring/summer season, including some key April titles but focusing on especially promising works published from May through August and stretching to include two exciting September titles. Together, they reflect the strengths of publishing today and serve as a good starting point for collection development.

The 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners are announced, including Percival Everett, Donika Kelly, George Makari, Tiya Miles, and Ishmael Reed. B&N selects Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel for its April Book Club. April's Read with Jenna pick is Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow and the GMA pick is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. 

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel leads holds this week and garners an adaptation at HBO Max. Carry On: Reflections For A New Generation by John Lewis with Kabir Sehgal, read by Don Cheadle, won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. The 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction winners are announced. An anthology of the winners, The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners ed. by Valeria Luiselli, will publish September 13th. Six Library Reads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline. April's Costco Connection features Girls of Flight City by Lorraine Heath, The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly, a Wheel of Time boxed set by Robert Jordan, and The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight.

A Book of Rhymes, a lost collection of poems by Charlotte Brontë, has been uncovered and will sell for $1.25 million. Biographer Nancy Milford has died at the age of 83. Interviews investigate the insights of Marie Yovanovitch, Mindy Kaling, Jennifer Egan, Maud Newton, Talitha Getty, and Susan Cain. Plus, page-to-screen.

The 2022 Plutarch Award finalists are announced. The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize and the Stella Prize shortlist authors are also announced. At the top of the best sellers lists are: The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich, French Braid by Anne Tyler, A Safe House by Stuart Woods, Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw, and Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway. Interviews explore the thoughts of Mariko Tamaki, A.J. Baime, and Kate Folk. Adaptations are ahead for Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire and Robert R. McCammon’s Stinger.

The 2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes are announced. Oprah Winfrey to receive honorary PEN/Faulkner award. Philip Pullman steps down as Society of Authors (SoA) president. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline. Interviews arrive with Ocean Vuong, Nick Ripatrazone, Ira Rutkow, and more. Marie Kondo and Dani Shapiro announce new books for fall. An adaptation of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter is headed to Apple TV+. 

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

These titles focus on voting rights and elections in the United States. They introduce readers to voting and basic civics, and cover major historical events and issues in the struggle for voting rights. 

Canada Reads returns for its 21st season. Elaine Midcoh wins the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. The 2022 IAFA Awards winners are announced. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan gets reviewed. Roxane Gay Books announces first three titles, due out in 2023. Interviews arrive with Kate Folk, John Elizabeth Stintzi, Carley Moore, Judd Apatow, Grant Ginder, and Scott Carney. Plus, Julia premieres on HBO Max. 

What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline tops holds lists. Several adaptations win Oscars. The 2022 British Book Awards, the Republic of Consciousness Award, and Best First Novel Award shortlists are announced. Three LibraryReads selections publish this week. People's book of the week is Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse. NYT has a spring book preview. Plus, Bridgerton returns to Netflix along with character guides, interviews, and read-alikes.

Shortlists and finalists are announced for the 2022 CrimeFest Awards and the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, respectively. Interviews abound with Eloghosa Osunde, George Saunders, Anne Tyler, Lucy Foley, Carell Augustus, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Susan Cain. There is buzz around the adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

News about books discussed during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination hearing and a book banning bill in Oklahoma. The best sellers lists feature The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Match by Harlan Coben, and Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch. New books coming out from John le Carré with A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré, Kate Atkinson with Shrines of Gaiety, and Ralph Macchio with Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. Thomas Fisher is interviewed about his book and experiences captured in The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER.

Colm Tóibín wins the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for The Magician. Roxanna Asgarian, May Jeong, Andrea Elliott, and Jane Rogoyska win Lukas Prize Project Awards. The 2022 Dublin Literary Award shortlist is announced. The Dutch publisher recalls The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich. Plus, Where The Crawdads Sing gets a trailer, featuring new music by Taylor Swift.

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

The 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards finalists are announced. The 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist is out. The Guardian asks "What’s behind the rise in censorship?" Dolly Parton is set to star in an adaptation of her bestselling book, Run, Rose, Run. Plus, Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir, Wild, turns 10. 

The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich leads holds this week. One LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. The April issue of Entertainment Weekly is out with a feature on Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility. People's book of the week is Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway. Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor gets a 4 star review. Plus, interviews arrive with Susan Rigetti, Terry Chester Shulman, Sammy Nickalls, Melissa Febos, Warsan Shire, and pianist Jeremy Denk.

Winners are announced for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards and the Jane Grigson Trust Award to Riaz Phillips for West Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica. Interviews occur with authors Elaine Hsieh Chou, Melissa Febos, Kyleigh Leddy, Sonya Curry, and William Gibson. Much adaptation news is released for Blitz Bazawule’s The Scent of Burnt Flowers, Walker Percy’s The Second Coming and Kevin J. Anderson and Steven L. Sears’ Stalag-X.

The 2022 Yoto Carnegie and Greenaway Medal shortlists are out. The best sellers lists include Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson, Shadows Reel by C. J. Box, High Stakes by Danielle Steel, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General by William P. Barr, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal, and In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom. Interviews arrive with Marie Yovanovitch, David Godine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Dr. Jonathan Reisman, and Lili Anolik. There is adaptation news for Anne Rice’s The Lives of the Mayfair Witches and Jen Beagin’s Big Swiss.