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V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World wins the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Kevin Jared Hosein wins the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for Hungry Ghosts. Winners of the Reading the West Book Awards, the shortlist for the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel shortlist are announced. Plus Page to Screen.

The winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced. The African Speculative Fiction Society releases the shortlist for the Nommo Awards. Poets & Writers announces its picks for the best debut authors of the summer: ’Pemi Aguda, Jiaming Tang, Michael Deagler, Yasmin Zaher, and Gina María Balibrera. The Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks state effort to ban books from school libraries. The entire author events team at the Free Library of Philadelphia has been fired. A new study from The Economist says that the New York Times bestseller list is politically biased against conservative books.

Library Journal’s galley guide for the 2024 American Library Association conference is now available. Get a jump on reader demand and get in the know; sign up to get a PDF download now.

Thriving across formats and enthralling audiences, today’s historical fiction is vibrant, on point, and expansive in its scope.

Aspiring writers can find expert advice and guidance from bestselling author Roxane Gay, publishing pro Lisa Mangum, and New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme.

Bestselling Jillian Cantor and LibraryReads author Lauren E. Rico have new books on the way, Ava Robinson makes a big debut, and a list of forthcoming series titles.

On offer this month are a debut memoir from global activist Jaha Marie Dukureh, a biography about Edna Ferber, and two memoirs that reflect on learning the crafts of carpentry and woodworking.

Oprah selects Familiaris by David Wroblewski for her 106th book club pick. Ted Chiang wins the PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Christina Morina wins the German Nonfiction Prize. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for buzzy book Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood. V.E. Schwab signs a two-book deal with Tor. Sylvester Stallone’s forthcoming memoir The Steps will be published by Morrow in 2025. A Crazy Rich Asians TV series, based on the books by Kevin Kwan, is in the works, and Netflix is developing a three-part series adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery.

Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump’s nephew, will publish a memoir, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, on July 30. The Frank R. Paul Award Nominees are announced. Publishers Weekly rounds up book club picks for June. Earlyword’s June GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. Ursula K. Le Guin’s home will become a writers residency. Thomas Harris’s Hannibal turns 25. Plus, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in talks to star in a sequel to Practical Magic, based on the novel by Alice Hoffman.