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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mia Bay and Mae Ngai win the Bancroft Prizes. Finalists for the 2022 LAMBDA Literary Awards and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism are announced. The 2022 Jhalak Prize longlist is announced. American Libraries has a “Reading Ukraine” booklist. Elena Ferrante's new book, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing, gets reviews. LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for Harlan Coben's buzzy book, The Match. Interviews arrive with Reyna Grande, Eloghosa Osunde, Véronique Hyland, Alex Segura, Melissa Febos, Melissa Fu, and Marie Yovanovitch. Plus DC Comics plans new Poison Ivy series for Pride Month. 

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced its 2022 awards in literature. PRH launches a Banned Books Resources Hub, featuring information for educators, librarians, parents, and authors. LJ writes about the escalating book challenges and offers a resource list. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) changes its name. NYPL opens its 9th annual #LiteraryMarchMadness 2022: Book-to-Film Adaptation Edition. Interviews arrive with Alex Segura, Tara Isabella Burton, Susan Straight, and Melissa Febos. Plus, The Man Who Fell to the Earth, based on the book by Walter Tevis, gets a trailer. 

The Match by Harlan Coben leads holds this week. Five LibraryReads selections and six Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is The Club by Ellery Lloyd. Zadie Smith will receive the PEN America literary service award. The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Jewish Fiction Award winners are announced. Adaptations win big at the BAFTA's, Critic’s Choice Awards, Director’s Guild Awards, and Golden Reel Awards. Melissa Febos gets buzz for her new book, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. Plus, a new story collection from George Saunders is on the way. 

The 2022 International Booker Prize longlist is announced. There is news about an Idaho bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians for certain books. Interviews with Geo Maher, Melissa Febos, Martha Beck, Qian Julie Wang, Malinda Lo, Julia May Jonas, and Karen Walrond. Adaptation news for James Swallow’s Marc Dane book series starting with Nomad.

Colson Whitehead will publish Crook Manifesto. Beto O’Rourke offers We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible. The 2021 André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards are announced. Topping the best sellers lists are Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey, One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle, The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk, and The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank Bruni. Interviews explore the insights of Zachary Levi, Elizabeth Williamson, Brian Klaas, and Thom Hartmann.

Cormac McCarthy will publish two interlinked novels this fall. Bob Dylan will publish The Philosophy of Modern Song in November. Poet Sonia Sanchez will be awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal. Finalists for the 2021 Nebula Awards, Baen Fantasy Adventure Award, and Plutarch Award are announced. Shelby Van Pelt’s forthcoming debut, Remarkably Bright Creatures, picks up early buzz. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi gets a 4-star review, interviews, and coverage. Ukraine booklists, resources, and perspective arrive, along with interviews from Chuck Klosterman, Dolly Parton, Amy Bloom, Jill Gutowitz, and Roger Lowenstein. 

The 2022 Women’s Prize longlist is announced. The 2022 Darrell Awards finalists are announced. NYT's book review editor Pamela Paul will join the newspaper’s Opinion section in April, leaving big shoes to fill. Interviews arrive with Dolly Parton and James Patterson, NoViolet Bulawayo, Xochitl Gonzalez, William P. Barr, Kim Wehle, and Deesha Philyaw. Plus, The Residence, based on the book by Kate Anderson Brower, comes to Netflix. 

Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson leads holds this week. The Audie Awards are announced, and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, read by Ray Porter, wins Audiobook of the Year. Audiofile announces the March Earphones Award winners. Three LibraryReads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo gets reviewed, and Amy Bloom’s In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss gets four stars from USA Today. Plus, The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley will be adapted for film.

The 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists are announced. Page to screen choices arrive. Interviews abound with the insights of Sasha LaPointe, Bethany C. Morrow, Margaret Atwood, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Sarah Manguso, Robby Doyle, coeditors Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and coauthors Dolly Parton and James Patterson.

Nominees for the 2022 European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) are announced. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley tops the best sellers lists. Interviews highlight conversations with NoViolet Bulawayo, Amy Bloom, Kathy Gilsinan, and Sheila Heti. A new chapter for the Dr. Seuss Enterprise will feature diverse writers and illustrators. Amazon is closing brick and mortar bookstores. 

The 2022 PEN America Literary Awards winners are announced. The 2022 Stella Prize longlist is announced. Reese Witherspoon picks The Club by Ellery Lloyd for her March book club. Sarah Jessica Parker launches a new book imprint, SJP Lit, with Zando. Waterstones acquires Blackwell’s, the UK’s biggest independent bookseller. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book, Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey. Memoirs by Bob Odenkrik and Harvey Fierstein continue to buzz. Plus, new booklists arrive for Women's History Month.

B&N selects One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle for its March book club pick. Jenna Bush Hager selects Groundskeeping by Lee Cole and GMA picks The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh. The March Amazon Editors’ spotlight pick is The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith. Costco Connection features Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell, plus two cookbooks by J. Kenji López-Alt. The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards shortlist is announced. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses announces its 2022 longlist. Sheree Renée Thomas wins the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award. Jamie Lee Curtis debuts an eco-horror graphic novel, Mother Nature. Margaret Atwood joins Salman Rushdie and more than 1,000 other writers in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey leads holds this week. The Aspen Words Literary Prize announces its 2022 shortlist. The SAG Awards and The USC Scripter Awards are announced. Six LibraryReads and eleven Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski. William P. Barr's memoir is reviewed. Adaptation updates arrive along with author interviews. Plus, an Outlander prequel is coming to TV. 

The 2022 NAACP Literary Image Award winners are announced featuring Long Division by Kiese Laymon and and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones & New York Times Magazine. There is news about Leonard Cohen’s posthumous novel, A Ballet of Lepers, being released in the fall and a collaboration between The New Yorker and Celadon to publish a report of the events of January 6th. More interviews arrive and there is adaptation news for Danya Kukafka’s Notes on an Execution.

The Ray Bradbury Prize finalists and Lukas Prize shortlists are announced. Books at the top of the best seller lists include House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas, Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Sierra Six (Gray Man, Bk. 11) by Mark Greaney, and From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks. Author interviews highlight the craft of Julia May Jonas of Vladimir, Harvey Fierstein of I Was Better Last Night, Allison Pataki of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Erich Schwartzel of Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, and Dr. Carl Erik Fisher of The Urge: Our History of Addiction. 

Finalists announced for the 42nd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Jonathan Brown and Necole Ryse are awarded inaugural MWA Barbary McNeely Grants. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to be acquired by Veritas Capital. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for the buzzy book, The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. Plus, author interviews.

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley leads holds this week. Mary Robinette Kowal wins the Skylark Award. Three LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. The March 2022 issue of Entertainment Weekly arrives with a Q&A with Dolly Parton and James Patterson about their new collaborative novel, Run, Rose, Run. People's book of the week is Wildcat by Amelia Morris. Britney Spears signs a landmark memoir deal with S.& S. George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series will be released as a Marvel comic this summer. 

Nicole Krauss wins the 2022 Wingate Prize for her book of essays, To Be a Man. Interviews explore conversions with Philipp Dettmer, Eva Jurczyk, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Alaa Al Aswany, Jason Reynolds, and Julia May Jonas. There is adaptation news for Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny’s State of Terror and Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler's Wife.

The 2022 Yoto Carnegie and Greenaway Medal longlists are announced. Best selling books include Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb; City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman; Steal by James Patterson and Howard Roughan; Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love by Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis, and Robert Hariri; and The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman. Chats with authors feature Rabih Alameddine, JJ Bola, Johann Hari, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, and more. There is adaptation news for Iain Reid’s We Spread, Adrian McKinty’s The Island, and two webtoons from Wattpad Studios. Science fiction writer Melissa Mead has died at 54.

The March LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto. The UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize 2022 shortlist is announced. The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is awarded. Maria Shriver will publish the new Paulina Porizkova memoir. Reviews continue this week for Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James and Pure Colour by Sheila Heti. Interviews arrive with Marlon James, Allison Pataki, Lara Elena Donnelly, Chrishelle Stause, Edgar Gomez, Paul Tran, Arthur C. Brooks, Matthieu Aikins, and Tony Robbins. Plus, Berkeley Breathed's "Bloom County" comics are being adapted for television. 

The 2022 Compton Crook Award finalists are announced. Megan Marshall wins the 2022 BIO Award. Jenna Bush Hager announces a book club adaptation production deal. Interviews arrive with Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Alejandro Zambra, Tiffanie Drayton, and Art Spiegelman. New books are on the way from Willow Smith, Richard Butner, Dr. Deborah Birx, and Simone St. James. Plus, Shakespeare's Macbeth returns to Broadway.

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas leads holds this week. One LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. The Southern Book Prize winners are announced. The PROSE Award winners are announced. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu wins the R.R. Hawkins Award. People's book of the week is The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang. Tom Lin's Carnegie Medal winning novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, will be adapted for television. The Agatha Christie adaptation, Death on the Nile, arrives in theaters this week. Plus, romance booklists arrive for Valentine's Day.

Several more Black History Month booklists publish. New interviews are out with Marlon James of Moon Witch, Spider King, Sharman Apt Russell of Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It, Destiny O. Birdsong of Nobody's Magic, Jennifer Haigh of Mercy Street, and Chuck Klosterman of The Nineties: A Book. Adaptation news for The Fireman by Joe Hill, Cynthia Pelayo’s Children of Chicago, and Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

CJ Sansom wins the 2022 Diamond Dagger Award from the British Crime Writer's Association for his debut book, Dissolution. The National Book Foundation Science + Literature program picks titles and the Premio Ernesto Vegetti shortlists are out. New best sellers include Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont, Chainsaw Man, Vol. 9 by Tatsuki Fujimoto, The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink, and Dilla Time by Dan Charnas. 

Oprah picks The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck for her book club. The March 2022 Loan Stars list is out, featuring top pick The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James. The Walter Scott Prize 2022 longlist and the 2022 Dell Award winners are announced. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for this week's buzzy book, Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb. Willow Smith announces a debut novel, Black Shield Maiden, due out on October 4th. Interviews arrive with Erich Schwartzel, Chuck Klosterman, Brendan Slocumb, David Guterson, and more. Anthony Horowitz discusses the Magpie Murders adaptation for PBS/BritBox. Plus, Charles Dickens’s secret code is finally cracked.

The Story Prize finalists are announced, including Lily King, J. Robert Lennon, and Brandon Taylor. The 94th annual Academy Award nominations are announced, featuring several adaptations. The 2021 Chesley Awards winners are announced. Plus, interviews arrive with Scott Meslow, Sara Gran, Chiquis Rivera, Phil Stamper, Phil Robertson, and Neda Toloui-Semnani.

Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb leads holds this week. One LibraryReads selection and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Free Love by Tessa Hadley. Interviews arrive with Karen Joy Fowler, Heather Havrilesky, and Adrian Nathan West. Casting for The Color Purple remake gets coverage, and there is a first look at Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. 

The 2022 Audie finalists and the longlist for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award are announced. More news on book banning and burning. Interviews highlight conversations with Emily Maloney of Cost of Living, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado of In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage, Gerrick Kennedy of Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston, Tessa Miller of What Doesn't Kill You, Laura Coates of Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness, Bernardine Evaristo of Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, Chrishelle Stause of Under Construction, Debbie Millman of Why Design Matters, and Isaac Butler of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned To Act. Sarah Vaughan’s book Reputation heads to the screen.

Longlists announced for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2022 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize. Topping the best seller lists are Savage Road by Christine Feehan, Devil House by John Darnielle, Violeta by Isabel Allende, Red-Handed by Peter Schweizer, How To Be Perfect by Michael Schur, and South to America by Imani Perry. Interviews feature the thoughts and words of Charmaine Wilkerson of Black Cake, Paul Vidich of The Matchmaker, Chrishelle Stause of Under Construction, Jay Glazer of Unbreakable, and Imani Perry of South to America. There is adaptation news for Raymond E. Feist’s “Riftway Cycle” book series and Roxane Gay’s The Banks.

Hannah Lowe wins the Costa Book of the Year Award for The Kids. AudioFile announces the February 2022 Earphones Award winners and the 2022 Romantic Novel Awards announces its shortlists. B&N selects The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang for its February book club. Reese Witherspoon picks The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont and GMA selects The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Charles Todd’s A Game of Fear, the buzziest book of the week. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Autumn M. Womack talk about Toni Morrison, and The Well-Read Black Girl podcast debuts. Plus, James Joyce’s Ulysses turns 100, and the appetite for diet books shrinks. 

Jenna Bush Hagar picks Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson for her February book club. The Dublin Literary Award announces its longlist and the shortlists for the Wingate Prize and UK’s Parliamentary Book Awards are announced. Amazon editors' picks feature The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley and What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. This month's Costco Connection spotlights The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan and The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart. The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk and Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh earn rave reviews. Authors Eliza Jane Brazier, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, and Erin Cech talk about their new books. Plus, booklists arrive to start the shortest month.  

A Game Of Fear by Charles Todd leads holds this week. Six LibraryReads and ten Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Vladimir by Julia May Jonas. USA Today rounds up February rom-com reviews. Maus by Art Spiegelman tops the Amazon bestseller list. Q&A’s arrive with Lan Samantha Chang, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Michelle Zauner. Plus, Chita Rivera has a new memoir due out in 2023.

The 2022 Gotham Book Prize finalists are announced. Many books are being challenged and banned by schools across the southern United States. Interviews abound with insights about Natasha Brown of Assembly, Grace Cho of Tastes Like War: A Memoir, Bryan Washington of Memorial, Kim Fu of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Imani Perry of South to America, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka of The Roughest Draft, Morgan Thomas of Manywhere, Tamsyn Muir of Nona the Ninth, Jenny Pentland of This Will Be Funny Later, Jessamine Chan of The School for Good Mothers, Jennifer Haigh of Mercy Street, John Darnielle of Devil House, Deesha Philyaw of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Rachel Krantz of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy--A Polyamory Memoir, and Marcial Gala of Call Me Cassandra. Fran Dorricott’s The Lighthouse will be adapted for television.

The 2022 PEN American Literary Award finalists are announced. The best seller lists feature Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover, One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner, Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli, and The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan. Interviews explore conversations from Daphne Palasi Andreades of Brown Girls, Imani Perry of South to America, David Sanchez of All Day Is a Long Time, and Dolly Parton co-author of Run, Rose, Run. Adaptation news abounds for Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, Moses McKenzie’s An Olive Grove in Ends, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian, and a graphic novel of The Man Who Fell to Earth.

The official biography of Terry Pratchett, A Life in Footnotes, is due to publish in September. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announces the 2022 PROSE Award finalists and category winners. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book of the week, The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis. Violeta by Isabel Allende and Devil House by John Darnielle continue to buzz. Interviews arrive with Isabel Allende, Ben Raines, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Imani Perry, Rachel Lindsay, and Lan Samantha Chang. Disney+ picks up the 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' series. Marisa Meyer's 'Lunar Chronicles' series and Joan Bauer's Hope Was Here get film adaptations. Plus, popular authors share book recommendations. 

The 2022 ALA Youth Media Awards were announced Monday, including the Newbery and Caldecott winners. UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names its 2021 shortlist. Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob gets reviewed. Wajahat Ali's memoir Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American and John Darnielle's Devil House garner reviews and coverage. More buzz for Andrew Carnegie Medal winners Hanif Abdurraqib and Tom Lin. Colleen Hoover trends on TikTok. Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin gets adapted at Hulu. Plus, EW has a sneak peek at Stephen King’s forthcoming supernatural thriller, Fairy Tale.

Tom Lin and Hanif Abdurraqib are named Andrew Carnegie Medal winners. The 2022 RUSA Book & Media Awards are announced including the Notable Books List, Reading List, The Listen List, The Sophie Brody Medal, Essential Cookbooks: The CODES List, and the Outstanding References Sources List. The 2021 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards are also announced and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award names four 2022 category longlists. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis leads holds this week. Six LibraryReads selections and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski. Plus, the February issue of Entertainment Weekly arrives with a Winter Thriller Guide and more.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists are announced. Colm Tóibín is named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. Celeste Ng is coming out with a new novel, Our Missing Hearts, in October. Interviews abound with Chloe Gong of Foul Lady Fortune, Jessi Klein of I’ll Show Myself Out, William Barr of One Damn Thing After Another, Ella Baxter of New Animal, Bernardine Evaristo of Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, Silvia Moreno-Garcia of Velvet Was the Night, Lindsey Vonn of Rise, Michael Schur of How To Be Perfect, and Carl Erik Fisher of The Urge: Our History of Addiction. There is adaptation news for Stan Parish’s Love and Theft and Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties.

The 2022 Edgar Award nominations are announced by the Mystery Writers of America. There is news about the Huntington Library’s exhibit on literary maps, Gabriel García Márquez’s secret daughter, and a cease-and-desist letter from Britney Spears to her sister Jamie Lynn Spears on the promotion of her new book, Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out. Topping the best sellers lists are: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, Something To Hide by Elizabeth George, The Horsewoman by James Patterson and Mike Lupica, The Great Reset by Glenn Beck with Justin Haskins, and How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter. Interviews feature Eve Rodsky of Find Your Unicorn Space and Stephanie Land of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. There is adaptation news for Edward Ashton’s Mickey7.

Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan’s Lessons will publish in September. NYT explores the skeptical scholarly response to the headline-grabbing new book The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, by Rosemary Sullivan. Key findings of the NPD Book Scan’s Annual Recap are released. The Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein gets reviews and buzz. Interviews arrive with Jonathan M. Katz, Valerie Bertinelli, Weike Wang, Jessamine Chan, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Alma Katsu, Dave Ramsey, Gwen E. Kirby, and Jung Yun. David Sedaris’s forthcoming essay collection Happy-Go-Lucky gets a first look, and Brian Cox’s new memoir continues to buzz. Plus, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner stage adaptation will debut on Broadway in July.  

One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next selections publish this week. The February LibraryReads list is out including top pick, The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. People's book of the week is Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang. The Great First-Half 2022 Book Preview from The Millions is out now. Memoirs by Brian Cox, Valerie Bertinelli, Larry Miller, and Jamie Lynn Spears are buzzing. Interviews arrive with Valerie Bertinelli, David Sanchez, Brian Cox, Larry Miller, and T.S. Elliot award winner Joelle Taylor. Marvel’s Moon Knight gets a trailer. Plus, Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way turns 30. 

The Mystery Writers of America announce the 2022 Grand Master, Raven, and Ellery Queen Award recipients. Laurie R. King wins the Grand Master Award. The Raven Award goes to librarian and LJ mystery columnist Lesa Holstine. Juliet Grames wins the Ellery Queen Award. Eric Nguyen wins the 9th Annual Crook's Corner Book Prize for Things We Lost to the Water. Topping the best sellers list are Invisible by Danielle Steel, The Maid by Nita Prose, and Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin. Interviews feature authors Nikki May of Wahala, Rachel Roasek of Love Somebody, Jamie Lynn Spears of Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out, and Lindsey Vonn of Rise. There is adaptation news for Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.

The 2022 Philip K. Dick Award finalists are announced. Sarah Enany wins the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for her translation to English of The Girl with Braided Hair by Rasha Adly. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for the buzzy book, The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain. Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds gets buzz, being dubbed, "an essential read for all ages." Books from Hanya Yanagihara, Antoine Wilson, Taylor Harris, Lindsey Vonn, Alafair Burke, Maggy Krell, and James Goodwin all make news. Plus, EarlyWord releases its GalleyChat roundup for January 2022.

Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter. Joelle Taylor wins the TS Eliot poetry prize. The National Endowment for the Humanities announces new grants. Neil MacGregor is named jury chair for the Booker Prize 2022. Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise and T. Jefferson Parker's A Thousand Steps get four star reviews from USA Today. You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston is featured in the NYT. Interviews arrive with Daphne Palasi Andreades, Kathryn Schulz, Ginger Zee, and Lindsey Vonn. Wes Anderson is adapting Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More for Netflix. Plus, the Crafting with Ursula podcast debuts with first guest Becky Chambers. 

People's book of the week, The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain leads holds this week. Three LibraryReads and thirteen Indie Next picks arrive this week. The Guardian calls To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara a masterpiece. Toni Morrison’s Recitatif: A Story publishes in February. Valerie Bertinelli and Lindsey Vonn get coverage for their memoirs. Plus, interviews arrive with Hanya Yanagihara, Noah Hawley, Sarah Manguso, Emily St. John Mandel, Carl Bernstein, and the late Desmond Tutu.

More 2022 reading lists arrive. The best reviewed books of the week and award news. Cookbook author Alison Roman gets a show on CNN Plus. Interviews abound with the viewpoints of Judith Gurewich about the Eduardo Arroyo illustrated Ulysses, Maggie Shipstead of Great Circle, Brené Brown of Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, Lindsey Vonn of Rise, Dave Housley of The Other Ones, Masha Rumer of Parenting With an Accent, Matt Gabriele of The Bright Ages, Xochitl Gonzalez of Olga Dies Dreaming, and Sharon Gless of Apparently There Were Complaints.

The 2021 Silvers-Dudley Prize winners are announced. Topping the best sellers lists are Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night by Tui T. Sutherland, Annihilation Road by Christine Feehan, Criminal Mischief by Stuart Woods, The Comfortable Kitchen by Alex Snodgrass. Interviews reveal the thoughts of Thrity Umrigar of Honor, Jessamine Chan of The School for Good Mothers, Valerie Bertinelli of Enough Already, Erika T. Wurth of You Who Enter Here, Margaret Verble of When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, Amartya Sen of Home in the World, and Christopher Mims of Arriving Today. Adaptation news for James Swanson’s Manhunt.

The Costa Award Category Winners are announced. Kathryn Heffner is awarded The Peter Nicholls Essay Prize by The Science Fiction Foundation. Honor by Thrity Umrigar is the new Reese Witherspoon book club pick. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for the buzzy book, Invisible by Danielle Steel. Skyhorse will publish a new Norman Mailer collection after Random House reportedly passes. Chicago Review Press acquires Interlude Press. Interviews arrive with Xochitl Gonzalez, Pauline Boss, Michelle Zauner, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Jonathan Karl. Plus, Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers and Erik Larson’s No One Goes Alone will be adapted.  

B&N's January book club pick, Anthem by Noah Hawley (Grand Central), gathers reviews and buzz. Good Morning America selects #1 LibraryReads pick, The Maid by Nita Prose, for its book club. The Read with Jenna pick is The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez gets a rave review in The Washington Post. 2022 preview lists arrive, along with interviews from Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, Jean Chen Ho, Daphne Palasi Andreades, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Sean Thor Conroe, Jonathan Greenblatt, and bell hooks. Plus, Colson Whitehead confirms his Harlem Shuffle character, Ray Carney, will return in 2023.

Invisible by Danielle Steel leads holds this week. Four LibraryReads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week, including top LR pick, The Maid by Nita Prose. The current issue of People features beloved icon and author Betty White and the book of the week, The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan. AudioFile announces the January 2022 Earphones Award Winners. January’s Costco Connection features Something To Hide by Elizabeth George and The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality by Mike Sielski. Plus, works by Hemingway, Hughes, Milne, and more enter the public domain.

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith partner with Oprah Winfrey to launch new book club, “to curate conversations centered on the themes in Smith’s autobiography,” Will. More Best of the Year book lists arrive, along with interviews from Rax King, Faith Jones, Lily King, and Sabina Murray. NPR’s Short Wave offers a beginner’s guide to reading Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare:The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat, by Giles Milton, will be adapted as a TV series. Plus, NYPL offers reading suggestions for tackling Book Riot’s 2022 Challenge.