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Shortlists are announced for the 2022 Diverse Book Awards and Kindle Storyteller Award. Author interviews are plentiful this week, including conversations with Jarvis Jay Masters, Melissa Villaseñor, Kamila Shamsie, Ling Ma, Sonya Huber, Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemim, Chelsea Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Constance Wu, Calvin Kasulke, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman; also, rare and early interviews with Cormac McCarthy. There will be a new partnership in book adaptations between Titan Books and Alcon Publishing.

There are awards announcements for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Starting at the top of the best-sellers lists are Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks, The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman, Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, and Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Also, interviews with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jasmine Guillory, and Fresh Air revisits a 2012 interview with the late Hilary Mantel.

James Patterson donates $5.3M to Howard University, PEN America, and Scholastic Book Clubs. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Fredrik Backman’s buzzy novel The Winners. Tom Hanks previews his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, due out from Knopf in May 2023. Constance Wu’s memoir Making a Scene gets buzz, and Namwali Serpell’s novel The Furrows: An Elegy gets reviewed. Plus, BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light will continue in tribute to the late author. 

The 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist is revealed today. The 2022 Strand Critics and the 2022 Elgin Awards winners are announced. USA Today launches a monthly book club. The first selection is Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Storytel launches in France. A forthcoming unauthorized biography of Anthony Bourdain gathers buzz as does the late Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, both due out in October. Plus, LitHub shares bookies’ odds for the Nobel Prize.

The Winners by Fredrik Backman leads holds this week. Barnes & Noble announces the 2022 Discover Prize shortlist. One LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout. Plus, continued appreciation for Hilary Mantel’s literary legacy. 

Book prize announcements abound including the 2022 Cundill History Prize shortlist, CBC Nonfiction Prize, Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and the Financial Times Book of the Year shortlist. There is more coverage on book banning for Banned Books Week and of author Hilary Mantel’s passing. Author interviews showcase conversations with Tracey Lien, Yiyun Li, Cai Emmons, Robert Hardman, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. There is adaptation news for Anthony Horowitz’s book Magpie Murders.

There are announcements for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction longlist and the PEN Presents shortlist. Best sellers abound this week featuring top books such as The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart, Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills, Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Blowback by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe, Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman, Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté. Author interviews explore conversations with Nada Alic, Richard Osman, Orlando Figes, Edward Enninful, and Yiyun Li.

The 2022 American Poets Prizes are announced. The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction finalists and the German Book Prize shortlist are announced. The 7th edition of BookNet Canada’s State of Publishing report is released. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman. Recommendations for Hispanic Heritage Month arrive along with LitHub's “Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview.” Plus, inspirational fiction author Karen Kingsbury launches a production company to bring her bestselling books to the big screen.

Banned Books Week coverage continues. Rick Mercer wins the 2022 Stephen Leacock Medal. Jung Hae Chae wins Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for Pojangmacha People. The 2022 British Fantasy Awards and 2022 McIlvanney Prize winners are announced. S. A. Cosby previews his forthcoming thriller, All the Sinners Bleed, due out June, 2023. Plus, Spotify looks to compete with Audible with its new pay-per-book audiobooks hub.

Banned Books Week launches amid rising book challenges. The National Book Award longlists are announced along with the winners of the 2022 Ignyte Awards. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman tops holds this week. Six LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week. Plus, People's book of the week is Solito by Javier Zamora.

The 2022 National Book Awards for Nonfiction and Poetry longlists are out. The 2022 BBC National Short Story Award shortlist is also announced. LibraryReads has released the top ten books published in October. Conversations arrive with Javier Zamora, Mitch Albom, May-lee Chai, Elissa Bassist, Ling Ma, Jane Jensen (aka Eli Easton), Andrea Barrett, Buzz Bissinger, and Woo-kyoung Ahn. Adaptations are being made of Steven Rowley’s The Guncle and Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals.

The 2022 National Book Awards for Translated Literature longlist is out. More award news includes the Northern California Book winners and the Mo Siewcharran Prize shortlist. At the top of the best sellers lists this week are Fairy Tale by Stephen King, Desperation in Death by J. D. Robb, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, Solito by Javier Zamora, and Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong. Author interviews feature conversations with Gabriel Blackwell, Joe Pompeo, W. David Marx, Celeste Headlee, Lisa McNair, and Nina Totenberg. Plus, an adaptation for Geraldine Brooks’s Horse is in the works.

The 2022 Anthony Awards, Writers’ Award, and Washington State Book Award winners are announced. The 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize names finalists and the Ngaio Marsh Awards shortlists are revealed. Oprah picks That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters for her book club. The Guardian reviews Kate Atkinson's forthcoming book, Shrines of Gaiety. Jann S. Wenner's memoir, Like a Rolling Stone, continues to buzz. Plus, LitHub shares a Book-to-Screen Fall Preview.

Lambda Literary announces award-winning poet and writer Samiya Bashir as its new Executive Director. Dopesick, based on the book by Beth Macy, garners an Emmy win for Michael Keaton. Romance drives sales in this week's NPD Book Scan. Lessons by Ian McEwan gets buzz and a 4-star review from USA Today. Interviews arrive with Andrew Sean Greer, Ian McEwan, Rachel Aviv, Meghan Gilliss, and Kate Beaton. EW has a first look at Samantha Irby's forthcoming Quietly Hostile, due out in May 2023. Emma Straub pens a remembrance of her late father Peter Straub. Plus, a preview of Netflix’s forthcoming film, The School for Good and Evil, based on the book by Soman Chainani.

Art Spiegelman will receive the 2022 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Margaret Hickey wins the 2022 Danger Prize for Cutters End. Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People's fall book preview arrives along with interviews and profiles of Ian McEwan, Kate Beaton, Cynt Marshall, and Betty Gilpin. Plus, the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians trailer is out. 

Award news arrives for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, James Cropper Wainwright Prize, and CBC Nonfiction Prize. Angry Robot, a publisher known for science fiction titles, is launching a crime fiction imprint called Datura Books. Also, page to screen.

Tracie D. Hall, Executive Director of the American Library Association, receives the 2022 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community from the National Book Foundation. The 2022 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Books of the Year winners are out, as are the Dragon, Eugie, and Mike Resnick Memorial Awards. Rising to the top of the bestseller lists are Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, and Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen. Mercedes Lackey’s "Valdemar" book series will be adapted for television.

The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist are announced. The 2022 McIlvanney Prize finalists are announced, and the 2021 Sidewise Award winners are announced. On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton is the new Reese Witherspoon book club pick and The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh is the GMA pick. Fall booklists arrive and Esquire celebrates Stephen King Week. R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries is in development as a limited series. Plus, best-selling horror writer Peter Straub, who died at 79, is remembered.

The Hugo Awards and Nommo Awards are announced. Audiofile announces the September Earphones Award Winners. Fairy Tale by Stephen King leads holds this week. September Book Club picks arrive. Five LibraryReads and nine Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis. September’s Costco Connection is out featuring buyers' picks The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman and Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks.

There is more news coverage on local libraries and book banning and a save from Nora Roberts to a defunded Michigan library. Book recommendations arrive for Fall. Rising to the top of the best sellers list this week are Babel by R.F. Kuang, Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter, Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs, and Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner. 

A Virginia judge rejects obscenity lawsuit over book sales to minors. Rachel DeLoache Williams sues Netflix for defamation in Inventing Anna. Interviews are out with Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jamie Fiore Higgins, Laura Warrell, Courtney Denelle, Mia Mercado, and Lee Sansum. Plus, the Agatha Christie Estate sues over "Queen of Crime" designation. 

The 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award short list is announced, including works by Ash Davidson, Hermione Hoby, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Dawnie Walton. Claire Oshetsky and Wayétu Moore win the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize. The 2022 Seiun Awards winners are announced. The Washington Post’s standalone book section, Book World, returns September 25. Madison Lawson's forthcoming novel, The Registration, will be adapted for film. 

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid leads holds this week. It is also People's book of the week. Three LibraryReads selections and six Indie Next picks publish this week. Tess Gunty wins the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize for The Rabbit Hutch. The 2022 Davitt Award and Ned Kelly Award winners are announced. Plus, Meg Cabot announces a new "Princess Diaries" book, due out in March.

Awards announcements abound with the 24th International Latino Book Awards, the 2022 Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists, the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize longlist, and the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. Author interviews are out with Mimi Zhu, Anna Dorn, Joshua Whitehead, Beth Macy, Jamila Rowser, Robyn Smith, Craig Morgan and Todd McFarlane. There is adaptation news for Elin Hilderbrand’s book The Perfect Couple and The Idea of You by Robinne Lee.

The James Tait Black Prizes and the Prix Utopiales finalists are announced. Leading the best sellers lists this week are All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers, The Challenge by Danielle Steel, Overkill by Sandra Brown, Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother by James Patterson and Chris Mooney, and What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill. Author interviews feature conversations with Anya Kamenetz, Michael Beckley, and Jared Kushner. There is adaptation news for The Nigerwife by Jessica Walter, Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellor, Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon, Pyrates by Chris Archer, and 99 Days by Katie Cotugno.

Walmart launches a bookclub, featuring Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood as its first selection. Afterlives by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah gets reviewed. Rasheed Newson's My Government Means To Kill Me gets buzz and Frances Mayes discusses her new book, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home. Plus, NYPL releases “Harry Styles's House of Books,” featuring titles recommended by the pop star over the years.

Buying and stocking policies at Amazon and B&N upset authors and publishers. The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist is announced. The 2022 Ditmar Awards Preliminary Ballot is announced. The Beijing International Book Fair is postponed until November. Time has an interview with Taylor Jenkins Reid about the price of ambition. Plus, Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket and Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika will be adapted as TV series. 

Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger leads holds this week. The Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist is out, and the Laurel Prize announces its longlist. The Library of Congress 2022 National Book Festival returns in person, with live coverage from C-SPAN. Bolu Babalola’s Honey and Spice is the new TikTok Book Club pick. Four LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale. Plus, House of the Dragon premieres. 

The 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award finalists list is announced. There is a report by PEN America about educational gag orders. Author interviews are out with Brenda Lozano, Barbara Bourland, Douglas Stuart, Katie Welch, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Anthony Marra. There will be an adaptation of Rozlan Mohd Noor’s 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders.

After the attack on Salman Rushdie, his book The Satanic Verses is back on the best sellers list. Topping the best sellers lists this week are Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner, The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell, I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss, and The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank. There is adaptation news for Young-Ha Kim’s Diary of a Murderer.

Wil Haygood will receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from The Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The International Booker Prize names its 2023 jury. PEN America, NYPL, and PRH partner to present Stand with Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write in NYC on August 19. LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for Overkill by Sandra Brown. Joanna Gaines announces her forthcoming memoir, The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters, due out November 8.

September's LibraryReads list is out, including top pick The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell. The Aurora Awards, Splatterpunk Awards, and Sir Julius Vogel Awards winners are announced. NEH announces new grants. Librarian Lynn Lobash is quoted in a NYT article ”Choose Your Own Literary Adventure.”  In adaptation news, Jenna Bush Hager and her company will adapt Jamie Ford's The Many Daughters of Afong Moy as a series and Constance Wu will produce a series adaptation of Ling Ling Huang’s forthcoming novel Natural Beauty, due out in April 2023. 

The attack on Salman Rushdie dominates book news. Overkill by Sandra Brown leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Interviews arrive with James Patterson, Grace Ellis, and Amanda Jayatissa. Apple TV+ completes casting for the adaptation of by Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry. Plus, Vanity Fair explores the uneasy friendship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, through a "trove of never-published archival material."

There is more news about book banning. Interviews abound with authors including conversations with Edgar Gomez, James Tynion IV, Jennette McCurdy, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Gabrielle Zevin, K-Ming Chang, Emma Hooper, Nona Willis Aronowitz, and Jesse Green. There will be an adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s book, Dope Thief.

The August EarlyWord GalleyChat is out. Book apps like ProWritingAid and Serial Reader are featured in the news this week. At the top of the best sellers lists are Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Shea Ernshaw, and Reckoning by Catherine Coulter. Author interviews highlight the work of Susanna Hoffs, Jennette McCurdy, Keith Corbin, Paul Holes, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Sabine Hossenfelder. There is adaptation news for Stephen King’s The Regulators, Michael Mann’s Heat 2, and The Awoken by Katelyn Monroe Howes.

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam tops the September Loanstars list. The 2022 Varuna & Scribe Fellowship recipients are announced. Heat 2 continues to sizzle. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-likes for The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell. The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings gets reviewed. Interviews arrive with Belinda Huijuan Tang, Iman Hariri-Kia, Nona Willis Aronowitz, Dana Milbank, Jennette McCurdy, Tess Gunty, and Mohsin Hamid. Plus, Monte Burke's 2012 sports biography, 4th and Goal: One Man's Quest to Recapture His Dream, will get a feature adaptation. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough has died at 89. Rick Lai wins the 2022 Munsey Award. The 2022 WSFA Small Press Award finalists are announced. Tom Doherty Associates will be rebranded as Tor Publishing Group. Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner gets hot. Plus, Outlander actor Sam Heughan has a memoir coming out this fall. 

The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews. iCarly star Jennette McCurdy's new memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died gets buzz. The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas gets a film adaptation. 

The 2022 PEN Translates winners are announced. John Williams is the new book editor for The Washington Post. More news arrives about recent book banning affecting library funding, the Penguin Random House’s diversity report, and the PRH/S. & S. publishing merger. Author interviews abound including Sarah Thankam Mathews, Elaine Castillo. Katelyn Monroe Howes, and Edgar Gomez. There is adaptation news for Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl, Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, and Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" series.

The finalists for the 2022 New American Voices award and the Gordon Burn Prize shortlist are announced. There is more coverage of the continuing lawsuit trial of the U.S. Department of Justice versus Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. On the best sellers lists this week are The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda and The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 by Jonathan Lemire. An audiobook of Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts will be narrated by Lucy Liu and there is adaptation news for Duff Wilson’s Fateful Harvest and The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez by Aaron Bobrow-Strain.

August book club picks are in. Jenna Bush Hager selects The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford, Reese Witherspoon picks Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, B&N selects Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra, and GMA picks Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean. Plus, there are more book club picks from around the web. The August 2022 Earphone Awards are posted at Audiofile. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Black Dog by Stuart Woods. Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins gets buzz and a four-star review. 

Stephen King will testify today for the U.S. government in the antitrust trial to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster. The Mythopoeic Awards winners are announced. Books getting buzz include Jared Kushner's White House memoir, Breaking History, Gabino Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home, Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light, Julia Shaw's Bi, Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon, Steven W. Thrasher The Viral Underclass, and Lori Garver's Escaping Gravity.

Black Dog by Stuart Woods leads holds this week. Four LibraryReads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green. The buyers picks in the August issue of Costco Connection are Jamie Ford's The Many Daughters of Afong Moy and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice. The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson is in development for the small screen. Plus, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up again for the adaptation of David Grann's forthcoming The Wager.

The Center for Fiction announces its longlist for the 2022 First Novel Prize. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction and the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlists are announced. The Diverse Book Awards longlist is announced. Gilbert Cruz is named NYT's new Books Editor. The forthcoming Marilyn Monroe film, Blonde, based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates, gets buzz and a trailer. Christopher Paolini's Eragon is being adapted as a series. New literary podcasts arrive. Plus, page to screen. 

Prolific patron-favorite author Stuart Woods has died at the age of 84. Monica Byrne wins the 2022 Wellman Award for The Actual Star. Yale announces the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize finalists, including Tiya Miles,  Jennifer L. Morgan, and Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh. Shortlists for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award and the James Cropper Wainwright Prize are announced. Library Reads and LJ offer read-alikes for this week's top title hold, The Last To Vanish by Megan Miranda. Plus, Margaret Atwood will publish a new story collection next year. 

The 2022 Booker Prize longlist is announced. Susanna Clarke wins the 2022 Tähtifantasia Award for Piranesi. The 2022 British Fantasy Awards shortlist is announced. The 2022 Scribe Award winners are announced. Barack Obama releases his annual summer music and reading lists, including titles by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, S. A. Cosby, Emily St. John Mandel, Hanif Abdurraqib, Antoine Wilson, and more. Former Vice President Mike Pence will release his memoir, So Help Me God, on November 15. Stevie Nicks stars in a new comic. David Giffels's All the Way Home gets an adaptation. Plus, tickets are still available to take the Gone Girl cruise down the Danube.

The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda leads holds this week. Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters wins the 2022 Eisner for Best New Graphic Novel. Three LibraryReads and three Indie Next picks publish this week. Longlists for the Polari Book Prizes are announced. People’s book of the week is Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton. Plus, new trailers were released at this weekend's Comic Con, including Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. 

Mick Herron's Slough House wins the Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year award. The Lambda Fellows & Scholarship Recipients of the 2022 Emerging Writer’s Retreat for LGBTQ Voices are announced. Booklists arrive for Disability Pride Month, along with reviews for cold war books and interviews with Jamil Jan Kochai, Sir Mark Lowcock, and Margo Jefferson.

Michelle Obama will publish a new book this fall. The World Fantasy Awards finalists are announced. The Waterstones Debut Fiction prize shortlist is announced, as is the Furphy Literary Award shortlist. Arriving on the bestsellers lists this week are: The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci, The It Girl by Ruth Ware, Upgrade by Blake Crouch, The Best Is Yet to Come by Debbie Macomber, Tanqueray by Brandon Stanton and Stephanie Johnson, Thank You for Your Servitude by Mark Leibovich, and They Want to Kill All Americans by Malcolm Nance.

Jennifer Down wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Bodies of Light. Amazon names its Literary Partnership grant recipients. The Premios Kelvin winners are announced along with the Sidewise Awards nominees. Simon & Schuster publisher Dana Canedy steps down after two years. LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for this week's top holds title, Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva. Plus, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will get a new film adaptation. 

The August LibraryReads list is out, including top pick, Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood. Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo wins the AKO Caine Prize. The PANZ Book Design Awards  finalists are announced. Two lucrative literary awards are in danger of being discontinued. TikTok launches a virtual book club, starting with Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Bolu Babalola is working on a sequel to her buzzy book, Honey and Spice. BookRiot explores thrillers and mysteries this week, and offers a sci-fi genre primer. Plus, The Guardian writes about how literature is taking gaming more seriously.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva leads holds this week. Frances Stonor Saunders wins the PEN Ackerley Prize for The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border. The 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival announces its speaker lineup, including Janelle Monáe, Nick Offerman, Nyle DiMarco, Geraldine Brooks, and more. Five LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. Why Didn't You Tell Me? by Carmen Rita Wong is People’s book of the week. Plus, the Where the Crawdads Sing film adaptation gets reviews, buzz, and controversy. 

The winners of the 2022 Orwell Prize and the Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize are announced. Also, the Mo Siewcharran Prize longlist is out. Authors Joan Lingard, Susie Steiner, and Ivana Trump have died. Interviews abound in conversation with authors K-Ming Chang, Lara Einzig, Liz Michalski, CJ Hauser, Kamau Bell, Kate Schatz, Ronny Jackson, Tom Perrotta, Ken Auletta, Ada Calhoun, and Chrysta Bilton. There is adaptation news regarding Alexis Hall’s Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake and Huma Adedin’s Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds.

Multiple news outlets cover the sale of DAW books to Astra Publishing House. News on a murder inquiry for Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing. The July EarlyWord GalleyChat is out. Arriving on the bestsellers lists this week are: Rising Tiger by Brad Thor, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger, and Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD by Jason Kander. 

Emmy nominations are out, with nods for several adaptations including Dopesick, The Flight Attendant, Under the Banner of Heaven, Inventing Anna, and more. The Royal Society of Literature announces the 2022 fellows and the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards are announced. T&C has a guide to U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's poetry. Memoirs getting buzz include: Rafael Agustin's Illegally Yours, Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family, Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds, Carmen Rita Wong's Why Didn't You Tell Me?, and Lauren Boebert's My American Life. Plus, Mattel releases a new Barbie based on author and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall.  

Ada Limón is named new U.S. poet laureate. The 2022 Imadjinn Awards winners are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read alikes for Ruth Ware's The It Girl. Kwame Alexander will host and executive produce a new reality show, America’s Next Great Author. Tanqueray by Brandon Stanton and Stephanie Johnson gets reviewed. Interviews arrive with Stephanie Johnson, Akhil Sharma, Ken Auletta, Caroline Elkins, Teddy Wayne, and Tomi Obaro. Plus, The Washington Post suggests “14 ways to get out of a reading slump.”

The It Girl by Ruth Ware leads holds this week. The July 2022 Earphones Award Winners are posted at Audiofile. July book club picks arrive. The new Costco Connection features Ruth Ware's The It Girl, Brad Thor's Rising Tiger, and Shari Lapena’s Not a Happy Family. Seven LibraryReads and six Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark. Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence by Ken Auletta gets attention. Plus, Anthony Ryan’s ‘A Raven’s Shadow’ series will be adapted for TV.

Dawnie Walton wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. The 2022 CWA Dagger Awards and the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Awards are announced. There are insightful author interviews with Paul Tremblay, Michael Bourne, Cheryl Head, Alice Elliott, Lidia Yuknavitch, Samantha Allen, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Meghan O'Rourke, Rumi Hara, Rina Ayunyang, Jason Starr, and Janelle Monáe.

 Jesmyn Ward receives the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The winners of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards are announced. The top best sellers are The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, Escape by James Patterson and David Ellis, Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. There are author conversations with Tim Miller, Matthew Hild, Mat Johnson, Jamie Bartlett, Jenny Kleeman, and Austin Kleon. Plus, adaptations on the way for Paul Williams’s Only Apparently Real and Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne.

Lisa Bird-Wilson wins the 2022 Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award for Probably Ruby. This year’s Gordon Burn Prize longlist is announced, which includes authors Margo Jefferson, Ali Smith, Lea Ypi and Tice Cin. LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for Suspects by Danielle Steel. Interviews feature conversations with Zachary Levi, Elisa Albert, Keri Blakinger, Carlos PenaVega and Alexa PenaVega,  John Vercher, and Meron Hadero. Plus, B&N and TikTok team up for the #BookTokChallenge.

The 2022 Colorado Book Awards, Indie Book Awards, and Rhysling Award winners are announced. Ukranian writer Serhiy Zhadan wins the German Peace Prize. Macmillan remains closed today to address a cybersecurity incident. Interviews arrive with Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Joseph Han, Ada Calhoun, and Nishant Batsha, along with booklists for a post-Roe landscape. Plus, a look at the criminal world of tree theft in Lyndsie Bourgon's Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods.

Suspects by Danielle Steel leads holds this week. The Firecracker Award and Analog AnLab Award winners are announced. Three LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Authors protest over Amazon’s read and return e-book policy. Plus, screenwriter Abi Morgan will adapt, direct, and executive produce a TV adaptation of her book, This Is Not a Pity Memoir.

More summer reading picks arrive. There are author interviews with Chelsea T. Hicks, Jenny Mollen, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michelle Huneven. Adaptation news is out for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Númenor and the Archie comic Jake Chang. Plus, page to screen.

George Chauncey wins the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. Clare Jackson wins the 2022 Wolfson History Prize for Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688. The 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist and the 2022 Ignotus Awards finalists are announced. At the top of the best sellers lists are The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand, Horse by Geraldine Brooks, Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin, and I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura. 

Ann Shin wins the Trillium Book Award. The fifth annual Indigenous Voices Award winners are announced. So are the 2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlists. Audible, Inc. announces a first-look production deal with the Obama's media company, Higher Ground. Library Reads and LJ offer read-likes for Riley Sager's buzzy book, The House Across the Lake. The ALA Annual Conference returns in-person tomorrow. Also, Emma Straub will adapt her novel This Time Tomorrow for the big screen. 

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager leads holds this week. The Yoto Carnegie Greenaway 2022 Awards winners are announced. Malorie Blackman becomes the first children's and YA author to win PEN Pinter prize. James Robertson wins the 2022 Walter Scott Prize and Kalani Pickhart wins the New York Public Library’s 2022 Young Lions Fiction Award. Mystery Writers of America announces a new Lilian Jackson Braun Award. Three LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. People's book of the week is Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard. Also, The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas will be adapted into a movie. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.