These contemporary romances by Emily Henry, Jenn McKinlay, and KJ Micciche all feature librarians falling in love.
Forthcoming DVDs and Blu-rays to watch include Nicole Kidman as a TV weather forecaster, a documentary about activist Nan Goldin, and a tribute to Ukrainian heroes.
Can’t-miss movies for your queue feature a biopic of Enzo Ferrari, anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, and an homage to classic picture houses.
This month’s must-see documentaries feature feline fathers, a not-so-prestigious automobile race, and a study of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers.
Captivate with these culinary-themed memoirs, featuring favorite famous chefs and humble home cooks.
The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
New books from bestsellering authors W. Bruce Cameron, Debbie Macomber, and Danielle Steel, along with a slew of fiction debuts.
Award-winning Alan Hollinghurst, Christian Kracht, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Susan Minot, and John Edgar Wideman have new offerings; two Japanese bestsellers are now available in English; and translators Mike Fu and Bruna Dantas Lobato debut with their own novels.
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners are announced, including books by Ned Blackhawk, Teju Cole, and Monica Youn, plus a lifetime achievement award for Maxine Hong Kingston. Paul Yoon wins the Story Prize for The Hive and the Honey. Shortlists for the Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Prizes, Australian Book Industry Awards, and Dinesh Allirajah Prize are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline. Cynthia Erivo will narrate the audiobook of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Anguish and Anarchy. Hoopla launches a new BingePass featuring TV content from UK gardening icon Monty Don.
The Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist and the SERAPH winners are announced. Jimmy Fallon announces the return of his book club, with bracket-style voting. Apple TV+’s The Last Thing He Told Me will get a second season, based on a forthcoming sequel novel by Laura Dave, due out in 2025. Cillian Murphy will star in a film adaptation of Mark A Bradley’s Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. And sci-fi author Vernor Vinge has died at the age of 79.
The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Kristen Perrin, Jonathan Haid, Heather Gudenkauf, and Dervla McTiernan. Six LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. Svetlana Sterlin wins the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award. At NYT, Margaret Atwood explains the enduring appeal of Stephen King’s Carrie as it turns 50. And Babar heir and author Laurent de Brunhoff has died at the age of 98.
The National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced. Daniel Finkelstein wins the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival. Chris Newens’s Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals wins the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink Writers. Dreamscape’s audiobook program expands its ambit. Plus, Page to Screen.
The Horror Writers Association announces its Summer Scares reading list, including Jackal by Erin E. Adams, Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison, and This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. Ebru Ojen’s Lojman wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize for independent-press books. Ajibola Tolase wins the Cave Canem Prize fellowship for Black poets. The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize are announced. Primatologist and best-selling author Frans de Waal has died at 75.
This user-friendly Gale database contains primary sources from the 19th to 21st centuries that are sure to appeal to people interested in modern counterculture and social histories, along with progressive political and societal movements.
This Gale database offers a distinctive look into the history of American environmental conservation.
Check out these starred fantasy debuts about a Trans-Siberian luxury train, an underwater humanity, a department store that sells dreams, and a hotheaded hero with nothing to lose.
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
Forensic photographer Rita Todacheene returns, Emma Knightly is on the case in a new Jane Austen-inspired mystery, and there's some hard-boiled Hanukkah noir; plus forthcoming series titles.
History highlights include books about the social and economic impacts of the Freedman’s Bank, the creation of Handel’s Messiah, an exploration of how Black Americans have sought to transform their lives, and a history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
New thrillers from Laura Dave, Paula Hawkins, and Jason Rekulak; spy fiction from Nick Harkaway and David McCloskey; and another puzzle from Danielle Trussoni.
The National Book Foundation announces its 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees: Antonia Angress, Maya Binyam, Zain Khalid, Tyriek White, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Jonathan Eig wins the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for King: A Life. Tom Crewe, The New Life, wins the Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle. Mary L. Trump will publish Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir. Karin Slaughter will adapt and executive-produce The Good Daughter for a Peacock series starring Jessica Biel.
Library Journal’s galley guide for the 2024 Public Library Association conference is now available. Get a jump on reader demand and get in the know; sign up to get a PDF download now.
The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award winners are announced, with Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America winning the Mark Lynton History Prize and Dashka Slater’s Accountable winning the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the first young adult book to achieve the honor. Finalists for the ITW Thriller Awards, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the Publishing Triangle Awards are announced. ALA president Emily Drabinski will receive the Torchbearer Award. Interviews arrive with Percival Everett, Natasha S. Alford, Rahiel Tesfamariam, Zibby Owens, Holly Black, and Téa Obreht. LJ’s Galley Guide for PLA 2024 is available now.
People’s book of the week, Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle, leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by James Patterson and Nancy Allen, Percival Everett, Chris Bohjalian, and Steve Cavanagh. The 2024 Future Worlds Prize shortlist is announced. The April LibraryReads list arrives, featuring top pick The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. People highlights Dua Lipa’s book club. Christine Blasey Ford discusses her new memoir, One Way Back. Plus, author Jo Nesbø will adapt his Harry Hole series for Netflix.
Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, The Last House Guest, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Girl from Widow Hills, Such a Quiet Place, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. Her latest book is Daughter of Mine.
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is named the Nero Gold Prize Book of the Year. The shortlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the longlist for Jhalak Prize for British writers of color, and the longlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction are announced. PEN International is among signatories of a joint statement on freedom of expression and the freedoms to read and publish. Zando has launched a romance imprint called Slowburn. Dan Wakefield, “multifaceted writer on a spiritual journey,” has died at 91.
The winners of the Writers’ Prize are announced: Book of the Year The Home Child by Liz Berry, The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright, and Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming. Elizabeth McCracken wins the Wingate Literary Prize for The Hero of this Book. The finalists are announced for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for small-press books. Tanith Lee is the recipient of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association’s Infinity Award, a posthumous lifetime achievement award. The Atlantic launches “The Great American Novels” project. Book ban efforts continued to surge last year, reaching the highest levels ever recorded by the American Library Association.
These biographies of Candida Royalle and Anna May Wong explore 20th-century feminism, the film industry, sex, race, and gender.
These performing arts memoirs feature Judi Dench’s insights, personal experiences, and knowledge about Shakespeare’s plays and RuPaul baring his soul about his dysfunctional family and the battles he has fought.
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Free reference sources, vetted, smart, and endlessly useful, are a rich resource for scholars and students. Here are our five top picks for 2023.
Databases foster deep research, expansive reading, and a myriad of inquiry avenues. These 10 tools, covering food, Shakespeare, study skills, and much more, are our selections for the best databases of 2023.
Naomi Novik visits favorite and new settings in a collection of short stories, while Chloe Gong, TJ Klune, J.M. Miro, and Ehigbor Okosun have sequels; plus forthcoming series titles.
Multiple vampire tales, including ones from Johnny Compton, Rachel Harrison, and Kiersten White; a gothic horror from LJ Best Booker Olesya Salnikova Gilmore; and YA authors Lilliam Rivera and Vincent Tirado make their adult debut.
Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
Observations on wolves and grizzly bears, a guide to natural wonders, a look at the marvels of nature at night, and further considerations of life on this planet.
Memoirs from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, @NuevaYorka creator Jessica Hoppe, and actors Uzo Aduba, Kelly Bishop, and Eric Roberts, along with biographies about impressionist painter Monet and country singers George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
The Inaugural Libby Award winners are announced, as are the Edgar Award finalists. The 2024 Tournament of Books opening round is underway. The 2024 LA Times Festival of Books kicks off on April 20. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner. Tennis star Björn Borg will publish a memoir in 2025. Plus, interviews arrive with Debbie Urbanski, Zefyr Lisowski, Cameron Russell, Emmeline Clein, Mark Kurlansky, Roxane Gay, Tommy Orange, and Tamron Hall.
The literary NAACP Image Awards are announced, ahead of the televised awards show on March 16. The International Booker Prize 2024 longlist is announced. Kylie Needham wins the 2024 MUD Literary Prize. Al Pacino will release his memoir, Sonny Boy, in October. Zando launches the new romance imprint Slowburn. ALA Cancels LibLearnX 2026. Author and actor Malachy McCourt dies at 92.
Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are new titles by Lynn Painter, Scarlett St. Clair, Deanna Raybourn, and Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, wins the 2024 BIO Award. Oppenheimer and Poor Things, both based on books, win big at the Academy Awards. People’s book of the week is Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman. The April Indie Next List is out, featuring #1 pick James by Percival Everett.
Catherine Leroux’s The Future is selected as the 2024 Canada Reads book. Kathryn Scanlan wins the Gordon Burn Prize for Kick the Latch. Shortlists are announced for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the British Book Awards 2024 Book of the Year, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. The longlist is announced for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Akira Toriyama, creator of manga including the “Dragon Ball” series, dies at 68.
This spring, audiobooks delight those who read with their ears through works that enchant, disrupt, and inspire. Let skilled voice artists pull you into worlds that span history and continents, with spotlights in this edition on Indigenous writers and poetry.
The March 2024 Audio in Depth issue features several standout listens, from fiction titles across genres to multiple memoirs, poetry, and more.
Memoirist and poet Michelle Porter offers a groundbreaking debut novel that's an unforgettable, enchanting listen, while an anthology of Indigenous horror stories offers something for every listener, from quietly unsettling tales to gruesome body horror.
A brief, quietly gorgeous audiobook of Yalie Saweda Kamara's poetry reveals new meaning with every listen, and a groundbreaking and deeply passionate poetry collection from Mikeas Sánchez celebrates language and feminine power.
In the excellent follow-up to Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Emily’s new research project/adventure is more dangerous and action-packed than her last.
An incredibly written and performed historical horror novel and a spellbinding debut that follows the crew of a paranormal investigations TV show are must-listens.
Reese’s Book Club picks Xochitl Gonzalez’s Anita de Monte Laughs Last as its next read. The winners of the Bancroft Prize for history books are announced: Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion and Carolyn Woods Eisenberg’s Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia. Julian Jackson wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Baen Books has announced the finalists for the 2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award.
Nonstop sparkling banter and absolutely delicious chemistry make this one of Bellefleur’s best and steamiest rom-coms yet. Truly, deeply fun from page one to the touching happily-ever-after.
In 1987, Women’s History Month was formally recognized by presidential proclamation as a monthlong celebration to honor women’s contributions, accomplishments, and voices throughout United States history. The following books spotlight extraordinary women from the distant and not-so-distant past—women both imagined and real, famous and little-known, and from varied cultures, countries, and continents.
This humorous mystery with a touch of romance was auctioned to Fox TV for development as a series, with Mack writing the pilot. For fans of the movie Knives Out or E.J. Copperman’s “Jersey Girl Legal Mysteries.”
The key trends in crime fiction this year are the desire for immersive escape, a focus on genre blends, and new takes on traditional tropes.
Alyssa Cole writes in multiple genres, including the Edgar Award–winning thriller When No One Is Watching and the Reading List Award–winning historical romance An Extraordinary Union. Her newest, One of Us Knows (Morrow), features a protagonist with dissociative identity disorder (DID) whose system of personalities work together to solve a locked-room case on a mysterious island. Cole talks with LJ about writing, research, and books she enjoys.
A thoughtful and compelling story about one robot’s journey through their own version of Dante’s circles of hell, complete with all the other hells they’d rather never have imagined.
A new series from K. Bromberg, romantic suspense from Ally Carter, the sophomore novel from LJ Best Booker Dominic Lim, and more; plus forthcoming series titles.
Big releases from bestselling Louise Erdrich and Sally Rooney along with a new book from Nobel prize-winning Olga Tokarczuk.
The Hunter by Tana French is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
Melissa de la Cruz, Sangu Mandanna, Harper L. Woods, Abigail Owen, and several YA authors turning to romantasy offer titles of dragons, magic, fairy tales, and love.
Nicholas Sparks, Matt Haig, Marissa Stapley, and Jami Attenberg all return with deeply readable novels.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist is announced. Tom Doherty, founder of Tor Books, wins the Robert A. Heinlein Award. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera is the new GMA book club pick. Liza Mundy’s The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA will get a series adaptation. A Gentleman in Moscow, based on the novel by Amor Towles, gets a trailer. Plus, Haruki Murakami’s first book in six years, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, will arrive in November.
The Audie Award winners are announced, with Surrender, written and narrated by Bono, winning Audiobook of the Year. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses announces its 2024 shortlist. RuPaul starts a new online book marketplace and book club and sends the Rainbow Book Bus to deliver banned books. A new publisher, Authors Equity, backed by former Penguin Random House U.S. CEO Madeline McIntosh and others, launches with a profit-sharing financial model. Plus, Chicago Tribune calls Percival Everett’s new book, James, “a masterpiece.”
The Hunter by Tana French leads holds this week. Also getting attention are titles by Lisa Unger, Elle Cosimano, Danielle Steel, and Holly Black. Jenna Bush Hager picks two books for her March book club: The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The Stella Prize longlist is announced. Nine LibraryReads and 11 Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris is being adapted for film.
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