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There is an annoucement for the Writers’ Trust of Canada new nonfiction prize: the Weston International Award. Books debuting on the best-seller lists this week are I Will Find You by Harlan Coben, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission To Make It Home by Benjamin Hall, Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton, and The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher, written with Mary Pilon. Audio interviews feature conversations with authors such as Ari Shapiro, Darren Walker, Madelaine Lucas, Kerry Howley, Natalie Koch, and John Parker.

Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan, Ann Patchett, Bryan Stevenson, and others receive National Humanities Medals. Linda Villarosa, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, and Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War, win 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. Questlove launches a new publishing imprint. There is adaptation news for Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo, Cesca Major’s Maybe Next Time, two titles by J. Newman, and Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These. Plus, James Patterson signs an exclusive deal with Skydance Television.

Will Sharpe will direct the movie adaptation of Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart. Today is World Poetry Day. Award winners and shortlists arrive from the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards, the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award, and the Yoto Carnegie Medals. Hachette v. Internet Archive has a key hearing. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey gets buzz. At LA Times Matthew Desmond discusses his new book Poverty, by America and “the ways we can move the needle on poverty.” 

Journalist and biographer Jonathan Eig works to get personal with his subjects to convey their humanity in a fresh perspective. He talks with LJ about being drawn into writing a biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his approach to the project, the relevance of King, his warnings, and his true legacy.

Mystery so fresh that not all have plot details available; two Christmas mysteries should bring good cheer. 

Hannah Durkin's study of five individiuals from the Clotilda, the last ship to arrive on U.S. shores bearing humans for the purpose of enslavement, plus our postgenerational society, integration in Shaker Heights, and deciding whether to parent. 

Memoir as history, plus reflections on life. 

The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear leads library holds this week. The April LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick, In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. Four Indie Next picks publish this week, including Flux by Jinwoo Chong, Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin, American Mermaid by Julia Langbein, and Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash. People’s book of the week is The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew by Maggie Bullock. Author profiles and interviews arrive with Catherine Lacey, Jeannette Walls, Mona Simpson, and Matthew Desmond. 

Ling Ma has won the Story Prize for Bliss Montage. Other awards announcements include the New York Public Library’s 36th annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the V S Pritchett Short Story Prize shortlist. Conversations delve into the experiences and processes of authors such as Richard Mirabella, Elizabeth McKenzie, Vibhuti Jain Jenny Jackson, Nazli Koca, Nita Prose, Gina Frangello, and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. There is adaptation news for Leigh Bardugo’s “Six of Crows” book series. 

There are announcements for the 35th Annual Lambda Awards finalists, the Jhalak Prize longlist, and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Featured on the best-sellers lists are the debuts of Worthy Opponents by Danielle Steel, Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner, and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell. Author interviews highlight the experiences of writers such as Sabrina Orah Mark, Richard Nuila, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Alissa Quart, Meredith Broussard, and Patti McCracken. There is adaptation news for Josie Silver’s One Day in December and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

This year’s Tournament of Books has begun, Oprah’s Book Club pick continues to buzz, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses announced its longlist. Author John Jakes has died at the age of 90. Leigh Bardugo inks a blockbuster deal with Macmillan, and Vulture profiles Kelly Link, whose new collection White Cat, Black Dog, publishes March 28. Oscar Isaac will play Kurt Vonnegut in a new crime series. 

From outer space to the ocean's depths, plus key healthcare questions. 

Armentrout, Armstrong, Percy, Vo, and more. 

Ellroy, Follett, Jiles, Millner, and debuter Rogerson. 

Oprah makes her 100th book club pick with Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful. The International Booker Prize longlist is announced. London Review Bookshop launches the Martha Mills prize. Becca Rothfeld is the new nonfiction book critic at The Washington Post. Interviews arrive with Benjamin Hall, Claire Jimenez, Margaret Atwood, Jenny Jackson, Ann Napolitano, Karen Fine, and Laurel Braitman. Booklists arrive for fans of HBO’s The Last of Us, which surpasses House of the Dragon in full-season viewers. Plus, NPR’s Short Wave celebrates National Pi Day with 𝝅 and pie. 

I Will Find You by Harlan Coben leads holds this week. Three LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine. The Oscars were awarded last night, including honors for the adaptations All Quiet on the Western Front, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Women Talking, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Simon Parkin wins the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize for The Island of Extraordinary Captives. The 2022 Aurealis Awards shortlist is announced. Horror Spotlight announces its picks for Best Books of 2022. The California Book Awards finalists are announced. And Nobel Prize–winning Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe has died at the age of 88.

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction longlist, the Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners Prize shortlist, and the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award finalists are each announced. Illinois proposes anti–book ban legislation. Interviews feature conversations with Dina Nayeri, Michelle Dowd, Annalee Newitz, Roxanna Asgarian, Madelaine Lucas, Julia Bartz, and Thomas Mallon. Adaptations based on The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave and Denise Mina’s “Morrow” series are in the works.

Beverly Gage, Kelly Lytle Hernández, and John Wood Sweet win the 2023 Bancroft Prize. The 58th Nebula Award Finalists are also announced. Debuting on the best-seller lists are Storm Watch by C.J. Box, A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival by Ron DeSantis, and Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May. There are some author interviews with journalist Benjamin Hall, thriller writer Christopher Bollen, and Sally Adee. There will be an adaptation of Cin Fabré’s memoir, Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street.

Toni Morrison is honored on USPS’s newest Forever Stamp. NYT Magazine offers a guide to “The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know.” The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces its longlist. The 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize finalists are announced. Laurie Halse Anderson wins the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson. The March Loanstars list features I Will Find You by Harlan Coben, and April’s Indie Next List Preview features No. 1 pick, Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez. March’s EarlyWord GalleyChat spreadsheet arrives. The U.S. Book Show presented by Publisher’s Weekly opens registration in hybrid format. And Ian Falconer, author of the “Olivia” series, has died.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson is the new GMA Book Club pick. The Aspen Words Literary Prize shortlist is announced. S. & S. halts publication of The Book of Animal Secrets by David B. Agus, due to accusations of plagiarism. The Bookseller previews a new book by E L James, due out in June. Nora Ephron’s Heartburn turns 40. Michelle Obama’s The Light We Carry book tour is now available as an Audible podcast. Margaret Atwood, Eleanor Catton, Donal Ryan, Joanna Schwartz, Rafael Frumkin, and Dan Kois discuss their new books. Hulu kills its adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City. Thriller writer Christopher Fowler has died at the age of 69. 

Wide-ranging reading for history fans. 

It's never too soon to start planning for the holidays.

Author Wesley (“Tamara Hayle PI” series) is right on trend with a cozy mystery series featuring Odessa “Dessa” Jones, a real-estate agent/caterer with a cat, a love for tea, and—oh yes, paranormal skills.

Edge-of-seat reading from big-name authors.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson leads holds this week. Seven LibraryReads and ten Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton. Also getting buzz are What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez and In Memoriam by Alice Winn. USA Today shares details from Paris Hilton’s forthcoming memoir, due out next week. Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews win the USC Libraries’ Scripter and Writer’s Guild awards for their adaptation of Toews’s novel Women Talking.

The NYT Magazine writes about building a canon of Black literature. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist is announced. The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards and the German Audiobook Prize winners both arrive. Conversations with authors illuminate thoughts from Omise’eke Tinsley, Rebecca Makkai, Michael Schulman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Will Sommer, Andrea Dunlop, and Ann Beattie. There is adaptation news for Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero and Mona Awad’s Bunny.

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai debuts at No. 3 on the NYT best-seller list. Also new to the list are Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes, Burner by Mark Greaney, The Last Kingdom by Steve Berry, The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz, It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders, written with John Nichols, and All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore. Author interviews explore the thoughts and processes of Aleksandar Hemon, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Raghavan Iyer, Steven Kotler, Derek Leebaert, and Michael Schulman. There is adaptation news for Kelsi Sheren’s Brass & Unity: One Woman’s Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back.

Penguin Random House reorganizes. March booklists arrive, along with national book club picks Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown and The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar. Audiofile announces the March Earphones Award Winners. The March Costco Connection features The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher, and Baking School: Lessons and Recipes for Every Baker by King Arthur Baking Company. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Storm Watch by C.J. Box. Joanna Gaines previews her forthcoming book, Magnolia Table, Volume 3: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering, which arrives in May. John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is being developed into a new musical. 

The August 2023 Prepub Alert posts are also available as a downloadable spreadsheet of titles.

Historical depth, depth in writing.

Collections from Kate Atkinson, Yiyun Li, and Vauhini Vara.

Meet the artists. 

The 2023 NAACP Literary Image Award winners are announced, including Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and Finding Me by Viola Davis. Shortlists for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards are announced. The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar is the March B&N book club pick. The Atlantic writes about why we need Judy Blume. Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold celebrate anniversaries this year. Guillermo Del Toro will direct an animated adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant for Netflix. Plus, rediscovered stories by Terry Pratchett will be published this fall in the UK.

Absorbing works from major award winners. 

The 2022 Stoker Awards Final Ballot is announced. Storm Watch by C.J. Box leads library holds this week. Five LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Victory City by Salman Rushdie. A sequel to Dr. Seuss’s 1957 book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! will publish Sept. 5. Rick Riordan previews his forthcoming book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods, due out in September. More “Lord of the Rings” adaptations are headed for the big screen. 

The 2023 Audie Awards finalists are out. The Parliamentary Book Awards winners are announced. There are many interviews with authors including: Maria José Ferrada, Allegra Hyde, Steve Berry, Chad Kultgen, and Lizzy Pace. There is adaptation news for Stephen King’s It getting a prequel.

There are awards announcements for the 43rd Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction longlist, and the Jan Grigson Trust Award shortlist. Beginning their debuts on the best-seller lists are The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg, and Walk the Blue Line by James Patterson, written with Matt Eversmann and Chris Mooney. Multiple on-air author interviews feature the voices of Nick Tabor, Kelly Weill, Malcolm Harris, Angie Cruz, Rebecca Makkai, and Michael Schulman.

Mysteries to remember. 

Social justice, vaccines, dreams. 

Blackstone inks a deal to publish Michael Crichton’s first series of novels, written under the pseudonym John Lange. Farzana Doctor wins the 2023 Freedom to Read Award. The Root launches the crowdsourced It’s Lit Awards. The 2022 Zsoldos Péter Award finalists are announced. Library Reads and LJ offer read-alikes for I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. Interviews arrive with Rebecca Makkai, Jac Jemc, Asale Angel-Ajani, Erica Berry, Farzon A Nahvi, Jean D’Amérique, Ross Gay, Louise Dennys, and Roger Cohen. Adrian McKinty’s The Island will be adapted as a TV series. Unionized HarperCollins employees return to work. Plus, PW reports on developments in the closely watched Internet Archive copyright case.

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai leads library holds this week. New editions of Roald Dahl’s children’s books stir controversy. Four LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. The Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the Best First Novel Award 2023, and the 2021 Endeavour Award finalists are announced. Martina Fačková receives the 2022 Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist. Gillian Flynn launches her new imprint with Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy. Plus, All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque, won 7 BAFTA awards, including best picture.

The 2023 PEN America Literary Award finalists are announced. There is news coverage of the HarperCollins Union new ratified contract; Kristina Pérez’s new company, Pérez Literary & Entertainment; and the new partnership between APA and Europa. Author interviews expound on the knowledge of the likes of Kevin Jared Hosein, Reuven Blau, Graham Rayman, Mai Nardone, Sheila Liming, Tina Brown, Anthony Walton, Louise Hare, Ben Ramalingam, Chetna Maroo, and Greta Thunberg.

The 2023 Wingate Prize shortlist is announced. Debuting at the top of the best-sellers lists are Encore in Death by J.D. Robb, Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes, Victory City by Salman Rushdie, Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman, People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account by Mark Pomerantz, and Bad Mormon by Heather Gay. There are author interviews with Davon Loeb, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Martin Wolf, Mark Jacobson, John Cribb, and Adam Brookes. There is adaptation news for N.K. Jemisin’s “Great Cities” series. 

Oprah picks Susan Cain’s Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole as her new book-club selection. The 2023 Southern Book Prize winners are announced, along with the finalists for the 2023 Compton Crook Award. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for 3 Days To Live by James Patterson. José Olivarez and his new poetry collection, Promises of Gold, get buzz. Paramount restarts sales process for S. & S., and Tor launches Bramble, a new romantic imprint. Catapult is shuttering its online magazine and writing classes. Rachel Koller Croft’s Stone Cold Fox will get a TV series adaptation. Plus, a new report finds Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned.

Featuring wildlife gardens, flowering houseplants, the basics of succulent care, and more, these are the 20 gardening titles that library patrons are seeking.

The 2023 Gotham Book Prize finalists are announced. England’s Young Writer of the Year Award, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlists are also announced. New booklists arrive for Valentine’s Day, along with a love letter to libraries from NYT. Plus, Daisy Alpert Florin, Patricia Field, and musician Mark O’Connor talk about their new books.

Finding ways to care.

New writers address key issues. 

Big-name, big-printing speculative fiction titles. 

3 Days To Live by James Patterson leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft. Bloomsbury is publishing new editions of Sarah Maas’s “Throne of Glass” series this week. EW previews Ali Hazelwood’s forthcoming Love, Theoretically. The New Yorker unearths a lost interview with Clarice Lispector. Plus, Percival Everett has sold a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, due out in March 2024. 

The Society of Authors Translation Prize winners are announced. Stephanie Meyer plans two more “Twilight” books. Interviews arrive with Davon Loeb, Joseph Kakwinokanasum, Gayle Brandeis, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, Malcolm Harris, Ibram X. Kendi, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Jack Parlett, Carmela Ciuraru, and Courtney Maum. 

Walter Mosley wins the 2023 Diamond Dagger Award. Also, the 2023 Association of American Publishers Prose Awards finalists and winners are announced. Beginning their debuts at the top of the best-seller lists are Maame by Jessica George, Exiles by Jane Harper, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano, Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson, and Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara. Author interviews include the voices of Chip Livingston, Kellye Garrett, Alex Segura, and Mark Whitaker. There is adaptation news for Tom Holt’s “The Portable Door” book series.

Simon Jimenez wins the Crawford Award for The Spear Cuts Through Water. The PEN Translates winners are announced, and the longlist is out for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Barbra Streisand has a new memoir, My Name Is Barbra, on the way. Author interviews abound, with Jessica George, Cherie Dimaline, Tiffany McDaniel, Marisa Crane, Matthew Salesses, Stephen Graham Jones, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Pamela Anderson, Delia Cai, Charmaine Craig, Farah Obaidullah, and Sonali Kolhatkar.

Revisiting thriller friends. 

Fresh thrills for August. 

 Illuminating lives. 

Probing thought. 

Salman Rushdie’s new book and interview make news. Audiofile announces the February Earphones Award winners. The Canopus Award winners are announced. The Tähtivaeltaja Award shortlist is announced. Booklists abound, and interviews arrive with Barbara Brandon-Croft, James Patterson, Patricia Field, and Heinz Insu Fenkl. 

The July 2023 Prepub Alert posts are also available as a downloadable spreadsheet of titles.

This season the LJ Reviews editors are looking forward to books that delve into history and current events. We are awaiting books that offer respite from hardship and those that provide a new lens to understand and reflect. In the mix too are horror, romances, historical fiction, SFF, and short stories.

Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes leads holds this week and is also People’s book of the week. Viola Davis achieves EGOT status after winning a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album with Finding Me. Five LibraryReads and eleven Indie Next picks publish this week. Plus, the March Indie Next list is out, featuring #1 pick I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai.  

The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, focused on nonfiction, releases its shortlist. Finalists are out for the Minnesota Book Awards. Book banning in Florida makes more news, and the backlash against Colleen Hoover gets another think piece. Plus, Page to Screen. 

Awards announcements include the Center for Black Literature Octavia E. Butler Awards and the Romantic Novel Awards shortlists. Also, the Romantic Novelists Association names A Christmas Celebration by Heidi Swain as the winner of the 2023 Popular Romantic Fiction Award. Starting at the top of the best-seller lists are Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love by Mike Pompeo and Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens by Richard Haass. There are interviews with authors Natasha Lester, Siddharth Kara, Hafizah Geter, Eleanor Shearer, and Annalee Newitz. Toni Collette stars in the new adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s The Power; meanwhile, the adaptation Kindred, based on the work of Octavia Butler, has been canceled after one season.

Plunging into lives that need to be better known. 

Literary surprises. 

Award-winning writers in short form. 

Travel the world, travel the past. 

Weaving the loom of time.

On January 31, in a virtual event produced by Wildbound Live, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced 30 finalists in six categories—autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, general nonfiction, and poetry—for the best books of 2022. In addition, finalists were announced for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, nominated by the organization’s regular members, and winners were announced for several annual prizes.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists are announced. LJ’s Barbara Hoffert is named the inaugural NBCC Service Award winner. Joy Harjo and City Lights receive lifetime achievement awards. The Rathbones Folio Prize shortlists are announced. Coverage continues for Madeline McIntosh’s resignation from PRH. February’s Read with Jenna Pick is Maame by Jessica George. GMA picks River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer, and B&N selects The Snow Hare by Paula Lichtarowicz. Plus, Penguin Random House Audio acquires Playaway. 

ALA’s Youth Media Awards are announced. Longlists for the Dublin Literary Award, International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Plutarch Award are announced. The CEO of Penguin Random House U.S. will step down. HarperCollins will cut 5% of its North American workforce. Donald Trump sues Bob Woodward and Simon & Schuster over The Trump Tapes audiobook. Janice Hallett’s The Twyford Code will be adapted as a TV series. Kindred, based on the novel by Octavia Butler, has been canceled by FX.

The 2023 RUSA Book & Media Awards are announced, including the Notable Books List, Reading List, the Listen List, the Sophie Brody Medal, Essential Cookbooks, and the Outstanding References Sources list. Julie Otsuka and Ed Yong are named Andrew Carnegie Medal winners. Colleen Hoover’s Heart Bones tops holds lists. Two LibraryReads selections and two Indie Next picks publish this week. Plus, People’s book of the week is Twelve Months and a Day by Louisa Young.

Carolina De Robertis wins the  John Dos Passos Prize. The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize longlist is out. The Authors Guild is supporting an antitrust action against Google. Interviews feature Hua Hsu, Pamela Anderson, Davon Loeb, Eleanor Shearer, Rebecca Rukeyser, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Vauhini Vara, Angie Cruz, Aubrey Gordon, Margaret Heffernan, and Zachary Shore. There is adaptation news for Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us and Stephen King’s short story “Children of the Corn.”

There are awards announcements for the 2023 AJL Jewish Fiction Award, with Omer Friedlander winning for his book, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land; also honored are Rachel Barenbaum for Atomic Anna and GennaRose Nethercott for Thistlefoot. Beginning their debuts on the best-seller lists are The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, How To Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes by Stephen A. Smith, and Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo. There are author interviews with George McCalman, Frank Vogl, Jeff Guinn, Sam Lipsyte, and Kevin Maloney.

End-of-summer chillers. 

John Scalzi wins the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The Oregon Book Awards finalists are announced. The Bram Stoker Awards preliminary ballot is released. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s longlist is announced, featuring the highest number of women authors in the prize’s history. The Evergreen Award finalists are announced. Ian Williams is named chair of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Kate Clayborne’s Georgie, All Along. Interviews arrive with Ilyon Woo, Kathryn Ma, Rachel M. Harper, N.K. Jemisin, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Ruby Tandoh, and Saket Soni. Plus, more coverage and analysis of this year’s Oscar nominations. 

All the June 2023 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

The 2023 Oscar nominations are announced, including nods for literary adaptions All Quiet on the Western Front, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and Women Talking. The 2022 Sarton Awards and Gilda Prize shortlists are announced. This Other Eden by Paul Harding gets reviewed. Apple TV+’s Dear Edward, based on the novel by Ann Napolitano, gets a trailer. Plus, a new online exhibit offers a close-up look at L.M. Montgomery’s original Anne of Green Gables manuscript.

Register for your galley guide!

Hiking, biking, Disney World, and the urban wild—these are the 20 titles library patrons are seeking.

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn, leads holds this week. The 2023 PEN American Literary longlists are announced. Two LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey. New memoirs by Pamela Anderson, Lisa Guerrero, Anne Heche, Mike Pompeo, and Jinger Vuolo get buzz. Arnold Schwarzenegger will write a motivational book for Penguin Press. NYT explores the appeal of the Elin Hilderbrand Bucket List Weekend. Judy Blume Forever debuts at Sundance.  Stephen King’s The Boogeyman will get a theatrical release. Plus, on its 30th anniversary, NPR declares: “The Stinky Cheese Man is aging well.”

The NAACP Image Awards nominees are announced in the Outstanding Literary Works category. Nominees are also out for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. There are interviews with authors including Adriana Herrera, Liz Harmer, Jinger Dugger Vuolo, Kristin Chenoweth, Lauren Fleshman, Jessica Johns, Matthew Connelly, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Monica Heisey, and Matthew Salesses. There is adaptation news for Yomi Adegoke’s Slay In Your Lane and Henry James’s The Beast In The Jungle.

There is news about upcoming book bans in North Dakota, the launch of Parapraxis, a new magazine on the subject of psychoanalysis, and on the proceedings of the HarperCollins Union. Starting at the top of the best-seller lists are Hell Bent, by Leigh Bardugo, The House of Wolves, by James Patterson and Mike Lupica, Spare, by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot To Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, by Brad Meltzer. There are interviews with authors such as Amina Cain, Heather Radke, and Bruce Wagner. There is adaptation news for Hunter’s Run by George R. R. Martin, Daniel Abraham, and Gardner Dozois.

Library of Congress names Cuban American writer Meg Medina as the new National Ambassador For Young People’s Literature. Ten librarians receive the 2023 I Love My Librarian Award. Mariana Enríquez, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Tiffany Tsao are named judges for the 2023 Desperate Literature Prize. The January and February Loanstars list is out, featuring top pick Spare by Prince Harry. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Canada Reads winner Michelle Good will publish a new essay collection in May. Interviews arrive with John Hendrickson, Stephen A. Smith, Matthew Salesses, Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, Kai Thomas, and Ilyon Woo. BookRiot reflects on the future of libraries. Plus, a new PBS American Experience documentary, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, gets buzz.

Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo is an International Latino Book Award–winning and three-time Bram Stoker Awards–nominated poet and author. She talks with LJ about her writing process, writing history, and the horror genre.

From the 1600s to Hollywood.

Friends, sibling, and mothers and daughters. 

More summer chills, with titles that  blend genre tropes. 

The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child leads library holds this week. Anthony Joseph wins the T.S. Eliot Prize for his poetry collection Sonnets for Albert. The February LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz. Three LibraryReads and eight Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter by John Hendrickson. Also getting attention is Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo. Plus, Boris Johnson will write a memoir about his time as British prime minister.

Life+Style titles are great reads that earn their shelf space. Here are nationwide checkouts for some top subjects. 

LJ talks with author and ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph about intentionality, plants, and reading.

Karen Fine talks about pets, the life of a vet, and good books to read.

As the publishing industry makes greater concerted efforts to represent the rich diversity of the world in which we live, small presses and imprints under larger houses are taking the lead.

Caroline Frost, Shadows of Pecan Hollow, wins the Crook’s Corner Book Prize. The Mystery Writers of America announces the Grand Master, Raven, and Ellery Queen Award winners for 2023. Topping the best-seller lists are The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes, Without a Trace by Danielle Steel, Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor, The Villa by Rachel Hawkins, and Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. There are interviews with authors such as Deena Mohamed, Kelcey Ervick, Iris Yamashita, and Kashana Cauley.

The 2023 Walter Awards winners & honorees are announced. Colin Channer, Reyna Grande, and Celeste Ng will receive the 2023 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers. The Golden Globes winners include several book-related films and series. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, as it becomes the “UK’s fastest-selling nonfiction book.” Stephen Markley, Captain Sandy Yawn, V. Ganeshananthan, Jessica Johns, and Lauren Fleshman discuss their new books. Plus, John Maxim’s “Bannerman” spy novels will be adapted for television.

Wide-ranging literary voices for July. 

Another chance to visit 1970s Harlem with Colson Whitehead.

Smart thrills for summer reading. 

The Story Prize announces finalists Andrea Barrett, Ling Ma, and Morgan Talty. Book previews for 2023 abound, including The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great 2023A Book Preview.” The National Endowment for the Humanities announces grants. Prince Harry’s memoir Spare officially releases today. Interviews arrive with Pico Iyer, Deepti Kapoor, Li Zi Shu, Jim Popkin, and Jonathan Escoffery. And Pulitzer-winning former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic has died at the age of 84.

Prince Harry’s memoir Spare leads library holds lists this week and dominates book news. New books by James Patterson and Mike Lupica, Stacy Willingham, Leigh Bardugo, and Mary Kubica also get attention. Six LibraryReads picks and 15 Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Allegra Goodman’s Sam. February’s Indie Next preview is out, featuring as #1 pick Grady Hendrix’s How To Sell a Haunted House. Remembrances pour in for novelist Russell Banks, who has died at the age of 82.