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USA Today’s June Book Club pick is T.J. Newman’s Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421. The July Indie Next List is out; the top pick is The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel. Crime Writers’ Association appoints Vaseem Khan as its first non-white chair. The 2023 Premios Kelvin finalists are announced. Jasmine Sealy’s The Island of Forgetting wins the Amazon First Novel Award, honoring the best debut Canadian novel. The Royal Society of Literature has released a shortlist for the 2023 Encore Award, celebrating outstanding achievements in second novels. Plus new title best sellers.

June book club picks are out, including the top hold title of the week, The Celebrants by Steven Rowley (Read with Jenna), Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (GMA), and Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea (B&N). More summer booklists arrive, along with interviews with Megan Abbott, Amelia Possanza, Dr. Ian K. Smith, Emerson Whitney, Camille T. Dungy, James Comey, and Brandon Taylor.

Steven Rowley’s The Celebrants leads holds this week. Other titles in demand include new books by Martha Wells, Jo Nesbo, Megan Abbott, and T.J. Newman. The James Tait Black Prize shortlist is announced. ALA’s Freedom to Read Foundation joins publishers and bookstores in a lawsuit over Arkansas SB 81. Three LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. Summer reading previews arrive, including People’s must-read picks for summer. NYT explores the staying power of Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Plus, The Guardian has a guide for “where to start with Kazuo Ishiguro.”

The 2023 Ignyte Awards finalists are announced. Starting their runs at the top of best seller lists are Only the Dead by Jack Carr, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, King: A Life by Jonathan Eig, and The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings To Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck. There are author interviews with Gene Luen Yang, Luis Alberto Urrea, Laura Tillman, and Suzannah Lessard.

Georgi Gospodinov wins the International Booker Prize for Time Shelter. Haruki Murakami wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award. Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb” has been banned from a Florida K–8 school. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Identity by Nora Roberts. Knopf will publish Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel, Until August, in 2024. Plus, summer booklists arrive. 

Biographers International Organization receives $1 million gift from famed biographer Kitty Kelley. Ryan Manucha wins the 2022 Donner Prize for Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups. Mazin Lateef Ali Wins IPA’s Prix Voltaire. The TikTok Book Awards launch in the U.K. and Ireland. Mahmud El Sayed wins 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy. Andy Serkis narrates a new unabridged audiobook of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. A new Folio Society edition of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy arrives in time for Towel Day on Thursday. The Color Purple gets a trailer, and Japanese Breakfast posts a casting call. Plus, PW has full coverage from this week’s U.S. Book Show.

Identity by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. Also popular are The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine and Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum, which is also People’s book of the week. One LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. The Water Diviner by Zahran Alqasmi (Rashm) wins $50,000 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The Washington Post previews this season’s best baseball books. Plus, tributes pour in for British author Martin Amis who died at the age of 73.

There are announcements for the 2023 Mythopoeic Awards finalists and Eisner Awards nominees. Walter Isaacson’s forthcoming biography of Elon Musk will arrive September 12. Author interviews feature conversations with the likes of Nicole Cuffy, Emma Cline, Brittany Snow, R.F. Kuang, Jenny Fran Davis, Julia Quinn, and Samantha Irby. Benedict Cumberbatch will star in the adaptation of Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing With Feathers.

PEN America and Penguin Random House sue a Florida school district over book bans. Debuting at the top of the best-seller lists are The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks, Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn, written with Shonda Rhimes, The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up by Andy Cohen, and Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy. There are conversations with authors Alex Pappademas, Polly Stewart, Andrea Bartz, Matthew Dallek, Juliet and Kelly Starrett, Stephen Vladeck, and David Fleming. There is adaptation news for Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees.

Salman Rushdie warns that free speech is under threat in a new public speech. Journalist Masha Gessen resigns from the PEN America board. Storytel Group acquires rights to Finnish Koskinen crime series. A new survey finds that Tiktok users report reading 50% more because of Booktok. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren. Interviews arrive with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Irby, Dina Gachman, Laura Hankin, Emmanuel Iduma, R.F. Kuang, Max Porter, Kwame Alexander, Thom Shanker, and Andy Cohen. Elliot Page unboxes his forthcoming memoir, Pageboy. Plus, Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, and Jane Lynch will star in an adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s comic strip, Dykes To Watch Out For.

The British Book Awards are announced; Menopausing by Davina McCall and Dr. Naomi Potter wins Overall Book of the Year, Bonnie Garmus is Author of the Year, and R.F. Kuang’s Babel wins Fiction Book of the Year. Salman Rushdie is also honored. WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists are announced. The June LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon. Michael Lewis’s new book, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, about about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried, arrives in October. Plus, the U.S. Book Show’s “Libraries Are Essential” virtual program is on May 22. 

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren leads library holds this week. The Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award winners are announced. The 2022 Nebula Awards Winners are announced, including R.F. Kuang for her novel Babel. Kuang’s new novel Yellowface arrives this week with reviews and lots of buzz. Charles E. Stanley Jr. wins the 2023 William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award for Lost Airmen. Entertainment Weekly releases its 2023 Summer Preview, including the 27 best books of the summer. People’s book of the week is The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks.

Arinze Ifeakandu wins the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize with God’s Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories. The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is announced. Chris Turner wins the 2023 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing with How To Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World. Other awards announcements include the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize longlist and the 2023 Orwell Prizes shortlists. Urban historian Fred Siegel is remembered upon his death at 78. Interviews feature Rachel Cargle, Tembe Denton-Hurst, Sunny Hostin, Carl Sferrazza Anthony, Lisa Brideau, Christina Sharpe, Judy Blume, Kerri Arsenault, Isabella Hammad, Stephen Marche, and Felix Salmon. Plus, adaptation news for Chelene Knight’s Junie and Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo.

The Christian Book Awards winners are announced. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro, The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself by Luke Russert, and Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life by Deborah Roberts are new to the bestseller lists. Interviews arrive with Mona Gables, Edan Lepucki, Julia Argy, James C. Jackson, Mariana Alessandri, Emma Nadler, Landon Jones, and Dave Eggers.

Finalists for the 2023 Anthony Awards, 2023 Indigenous Voices Award, and the 2023 Trillium Book Awards are announced. May’s EarlyWord GalleyChat spreadsheet is available. Speculation about 4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023 heats up. The Guest by Emma Cline gets reviews and buzz. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks. Penguin Random House Acquires Callisto Media. Plus, Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona is featured on a USPS Forever stamp. 

The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded with Trust by Hernan Diaz and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, sharing the top prize for fiction. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie, and Stay True by Hua Hsu also win prizes. The 2023–2024 Steinbeck Fellows are announced. Coverage continues for the ongoing WGA strike. Plus, the AAP discusses AI and the book business. 

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks, leads holds this week. One Indie Next pick publishes this week. People’s book of the week is Swamp Story by Dave Barry. Also getting buzz is Andrew McCarthy’s Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain. A number of awards shortlists are announced. Plus, the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced today.

Fatimah Asghar wins the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction with When We Were Sisters. News sources covers more on Writers Guild of America strike, an Illinois law on anti–book banning policy for libraries. Authors Wolfgang Schivelbusch and Peter Robinson are remembered. Conversations feature author interviews with the likes of Camille T. Dungy, Hannah Matthews, Sunny Hostin, Gretchen Rubin, Kobe Campbell, Christina Wong, Alexandra Auder, Dave Eggers, Hugh Howey, Paul Kix, Brendan Ballou, Jaime Green, and Priscilla Gilman.

The June 2023 Indie Next List Preview is out, featuring #1 pick Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2023 winners are announced. Multiple sources cover the targeting of journalists worldwide and the repercussions of Writers Guild of America’s strike. Starting their run as best sellers are Happy Place by Emily Henry, In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune, Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams, and Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. 

May Book Club picks arrive: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Oprah), Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith (Reese Witherspoon), Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Read with Jenna), The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters (GMA), and The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry (B&N). The Reading the West Book Awards announces its shortlist. The Tony Award nominees are announced. Variety reports on the WGA strike. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown). Plus, Taika Waititi is in talks to direct an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.

The 2023 RSL Ondaatje shortlist is announced. Madeleine Dale wins the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Booklists arrive for AANHPI Heritage Month. Eleanor Wachtel, longtime host of Canada’s Writers & Company, is moving on after 33 years, and Laurie Hertzel is retiring as books editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Plus, a new novel from Gabriel García Márquez will be published in 2024. 

The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro leads holds this week. Audiofile announces the May Earphones Award winners. Jenna Bush Hager picks Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for her May book club. B&N selects The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry. Seven LibraryReads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is You Are Here by Karin Lin-Greenberg. The May Costco Connection features new books by Danielle Steel, Emily Henry, and Tom Hanks. Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian will be adapted for film. USA Today looks at new Vietnamese voices in literature. 

The Edgar Award winners are announced; Best Novel goes to Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka, while Eli Cranor wins Best First Novel for Don’t Know Tough. Ebony highlights “5 Black Male Poets Whose Words Enthrall Us.” The NYT romance column is out. There are new efforts to pass the Right To Read Act. Nora Robert faces censorship in Florida. Killers of the Flower Moon makes news. Plus, Page to Screen.

The James Beard 2023 Media Award nominees are announced. Sarah Holland-Batt wins the 2023 Stella Prize for The Jaguar. The 77th Edgar Awards ceremony will be held tonight. The 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards shortlist is announced. The 2023 Seiun Awards nominees are announced. The Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2023 shortlists are announced. The 2023 Roswell finalists are announced. Simply Lies by David Baldacci and The Wager by David Grann land atop the NYT bestsellers lists. Interviews arrive with Lucinda Williams, Sarah Cypher, Sara Petersen, Claire Dederer, Terese Svoboda, Judy Blume, Gretchen Morgenson, Matika Wilbur, Neil Gaiman, and David Grann. Plus, Grady Hendrix’s How To Sell a Haunted House will be adapted for film. 

The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces its shortlist. Kaliane Bradley wins the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Shortlists for the League of Canadian Poets, the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, and the Atlantic Book Awards are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Happy Place by Emily Henry. Interviews arrive with Dennis Lehane, Abraham Verghese, and more. Stephen L. Carter’s The Emperor of Ocean Park will get a series adaptation. 

U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón has been appointed to a historic second two-year term. The 2023 Gotham Book Prize is shared by two winners: Sidik Fofana for Stories from the Tenants Downstairs and John Wood Sweet for The Sewing Girl’s Tale. The 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction winners are announced. The winners of the 2023–2024 Rome Prize in literature are announced, including Elif Batuman, Erica Hunt, Katie Kitamura, and Shruti Swamy. Coverage continues for ALA’s report on the rise in book bans. Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma garners buzz. Apple TV+ releases a first-look trailer for Lessons in Chemistry, based on the novel by Bonnie Garmus. And Mo Willems’s “The Pigeon” makes his operatic debut at Washington’s Kennedy Center.

Happy Place by Emily Henry leads holds this week. It is also People’s book of the week and Indie Next’s #1 pick. Other titles getting buzz include Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane and The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths. The LA Times Book Prize winners are announced, as is the IPA Prix Voltaire shortlist. Five LibraryReads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. The Guardian has an excerpt from an unpublished Hillary Mantell work. A new report from PEN American details the rise of censorship. Plus, the Library of Congress celebrates a birthday.

Jamil Jan Kochai wins the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize for The Haunting of Hajji Hotak And Other Stories. More award news arrives from the Writers’ Trust Rising Stars and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize shortlist. Several interviews feature the voices of authors such as Melissa Coss Aquino, Genevieve Wheeler, Tove Danovich and Neil King. There is adaptation news for Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

Announcements include 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award finalists, Nancy Drew action figures, and a new digital publishing imprint, Orbit Works. Beginning their debuts on the best-seller lists are Dark Angel by John Sandford, The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda, Lassiter by J.R. Ward, You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith, I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan by Katie Porter, and It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly. Author conversations include the thoughts of Alison L. Strayer, Elizabeth Graver, J.C. Hallman, Jonathan Rosen, Lauren Oyler, Minka Kelly, Julia Lee, Tanis Rideout, and Daniel F. Runde.

All the Light We Cannot See, based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book by Anthony Doerr, will premiere November 2 on Netflix. Will Richter wins the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize. Margaret Busby is named the new president of PEN. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Simply Lies by David Baldacci. Interviews arrive with Orlando Ortega-Medina, Molly Ringwald, Ling Ling Huang, Katy Simpson Smith, and David Grann. Jeff VanderMeer considers wheather climate fiction can promote useful change at Esquire. There is memoir news for Serena Williams and Liz Cheney. Plus, Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards will be adapted as an HBO series. 

Time released its 2023 TIME100 list, including Judy Blume, Suzan Lori-Parks, Neil Gaiman, Colleen Hoover, Salman Rushdie, and librarian Tracy D. Hall. The 2022 Sarton and Gilda Women's Book Award winners are announced. The International Booker Shortlist is announced along with finalists for the 2023 Plutarch Award, and the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. The May LibraryReads list is out, featuring #1 pick The Ferryman by Justin Cronin. Malala Yousafzai and Hanif Kureishi will publish new memoirs. Don Winslow discusses retiring as a novelist. Olivia Wilde will direct TV adaptations of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House. Plus, GMA speaks with Rob Schwartz, who edited his father’s writing into a new book, The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully.

Simply Lies by David Baldacci leads holds this week. The Wager by David Grann gathers buzz, along with Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal and City of Dreams by Don Winslow. Four LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel. The Age Book of the Year 2023 announces its shortlists. April’s EarlyWord GalleyChat spreadsheet is available now. Plus, Questlove and S.A. Cosby have a new children’s book out tomorrow. 

Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists are announced. Scotland’s Highland Book Prize shortlist and Canada’s Donner Prize shortlist are out. Author interviews include Rachel Heng, Maggie Smith, and Ella Berman. New books are on the way from Salman Rushdie and Beth O’Leary.

The 2023 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize longlist is announced. Starting at the top of the best sellers list are Homecoming by Kate Morton, Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson, Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden with Bonnie D. Ford, and Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own by Mike Greenberg with Paul Hembekides. There are conversations with authors such as David Grann, Gina Chung, Anjan Sundaram, William Brewer, and Dr. Sandeep Jauhar. Regarding adaptations, there is an announcement that Billy Porter will portray James Baldwin in a biopic, plus news about The Warlock Effect by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman and a Game of Thrones prequel series.

The Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2023 shortlist is out. WNBA star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir about her Russian captivity, due out from Knopf in spring 2024. Hachette Book Group releases fourth annual DEI report.  LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Dark Angel by John Sandford. Booklists abound. The Last Thing He Told Me, based on the book by Laura Dave, premieres this Friday on Apple TV+. 

Kimberly Unger wins the Philip K. Dick Award for The Extractionist. The British Science Fiction Association Awards have also been announced. The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new featured poems daily. Interviews arrive with Jeannette Walls, Anissa Gray, Anthony Chin-Quee, Maggie Smith, Alejandro Varela, and Charles Frazier. Gillian Flynn discusses her new imprint and new book on Today. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto will be adapted for TV. Plus, Esquire investigates how Barack Obama picks his reading lists.

Dark Angel by John Sandford leads library holds this week. Other titles getting buzz include Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez and The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda. Two LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Society of Shame by Jane Roper. The May 2023 Indie Next List Preview is out now, featuring #1 pick Happy Place by Emily Henry. Earlyword’s May GalleyChat will be held on Tuesday, May 2, to avoid conflict with LJ’s Day of Dialog. Tiny Beautiful Things, based on the book by Cheryl Strayed, is streaming now. Three new Star Wars films are in the works, and Hulu’s Saint X, based on the book by Alexis Schaitkin, gets a trailer. 

There are awards announcements for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize shortlist and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees. Featured author conversations include interviews with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Susanna Hoffs, Nicole Chung, Fred Van Lente, Ilyon Woo, and Dina Nayeri. There are adaptation announcements for Lore by Alexandra Bracken and Hugh Howey’s book series.

There are announcements for awards such as the 35th Annual Triangle Awards, Prometheus Award, and the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. Abrams will be separating its division ComicArts. Debuting at the top of the best-seller lists are Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls, Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, written with Bill Gifford, and Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell. There are interviews with authors such as Szilvia Molnar, Jacqueline Winspear, Disha Bose, Rory Carroll, J Wortham, Clancy Martin, Aaron Sachs, and Admiral William H. McRaven. There is adaptation news for Beach Read by Emily Henry and Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place.

Yiyun Li wins the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Book of Goose. The 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are announced. Honorees include Geraldine Brooks, Lan Samantha Chang, Matthew F. Delmont, Saeed Jones, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize winners are announced, including Percival Everett, Ling Ma, Susan Williams, Darran Anderson, Dominique Morisseau, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and dg nanouk okpik. The National Book Foundation names its 2023 5 Under 35 Honorees: Mateo Askaripour, Chelsea T. Hicks, Morgan Talty, Jenny Xie, and Ada Zhang. April’s book club picks include Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Reese Witherspoon), Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose (GMA), Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls (B&N), and Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling (Read with Jenna). Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao will direct an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. 

Reports signal a new Game of Thrones prequel and a new live-action Harry Potter series on HBO Max. Adaptations for Heat 2, B as in Beauty, and Tom Jones are also on the way. James Patterson questions the NYT best-sellers list. The Tolkien Society Awards are announced. Shortlists for the Walter Scott Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are also announced. Spring booklists arrive, along with interviews with Joan Biskupic, Peggy Nolan, Bart D. Ehrman. Plus, Time suggests “The Best Judy Blume Books to Read at Every Age.” 

Homecoming by Kate Morton leads library holds this week. Six LibraryReads and nine Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin (Holt). Audiofile announces the April Earphones Award Winners. April’s Costco Connection is out, featuring Jeannette Walls’s Hang the Moon and Kate Morton’s Homecoming; the book club pick is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. Plus, Judy Blume speaks out about censorship. 

There is awards news for the Booker, Dinesh Allirajah, and Bridport Prizes. Conversations with authors feature the words and thoughts of Rachel Heng, Gina Chung, Allegra Hyde, Judy Blume, and Clancy Martin. Film adaptations are forthcoming for Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer and Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

The 2023 Audie Awards Winners, Republic of Consciousness Prize, and Whiting Award winners are announced. The best-sellers lists this week feature Countdown by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois, The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear, Smolder by Laurell K. Hamilton, Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro, and Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. Conversations feature interviews with authors such as Meleana Estes, Abraham Riesman, Gabrielle Zevin, Rhys Bowen, and Idra Novey. There is adaptation news for Lone Women by Victor LaValle and Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain.

The 2023 Dublin Literary Award shortlist is announced, featuring Anthony Doerr, Percival Everett, Kim Thúy, and more. Salman Rushdie, Alice Oseman, Mererid Hopwood, and Serhiy Zhadan will receive Hay Festival Medals in May. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline. Interviews arrive with Clint Smith, Branson Sanderson, Dr. Arline T. Geronimus, and Colleen Oakley. Chris Chalk will play James Baldwin in Feud: Capote's Women on FX. Plus, Diane Marie Brown’s Black Candle Women will be adapted as a series.

Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize “Book of the Year” for her memoir Constructing a Nervous System. Scary Monsters by Michelle De Kretser wins for fiction, and Quiet: Poems by Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins for poetry. Kitty Kelley wins the 2023 BIO Award. The Imadjinn Awards finalists and British Book Awards shortlists are announced. Jhumpa Lahiri will publish a new story collection in October. Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the book by David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI), gets an October release date. Plus, ALA condemns ongoing threats against libraries. 

A U.S. Court rules against the Internet Archive in a closely watched copyright case. Dav Pilkey’s 11th Dog Man book, Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea, leads holds this week. Five LibraryReads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. Canada Reads returns for its 22nd season, featuring Ducks by Kate Beaton, Greenwood by Michael Christie, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown’s forthcoming debut novel, Nineteen Steps, will arrive in September. Plus, Publishers Weekly releases its 2023 Summer Reads preview. 

Beverly Gage wins the New-York Historical Society award for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Other awards announcements include the International Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist, National Book Critics Circle winners, and Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Multiple news outlets cover the book ban report recently released by ALA. There are many conversations with authors including Geetanjali Shree, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Robert Lopez, Jinwoo Chong, Victor LaValle, and Julia Samuel.

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.” 

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. 

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. 

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Awards are announced. More leaked details from Prince Harry’s memoir are out. Apple Books is launching a line of audiobooks narrated by AI. Romance writer Susan Meachen returns from the dead. Plus, author interviews abound and feature conversations with Nicole Morse, Amanda Oliver, Laura Zigman, Kashana Cauley, and David Sedaris.