RIPM Jazz Periodicals captures a rich and fascinating slice of history and music culture. An excellent resource to support research on 20th-century U.S. history, Black history, entertainment, and music education. This singular primary-source collection is not easily matched.

This constantly growing collection pushes past traditional boundaries to preserve critically important endangered materials centered on LGBTQIA+ communities and history. It is a heartening, essential resource for all libraries.

Ann Cleeves reveals that her next Vera Stanhope book will be the last. Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore, and Brianna Wolfe win the Donner Prize for Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19. Publishers Lunch’s Fall/Winter Fiction Buzz Panel is available to watch now. NYT catches up with “The Dresden Files” series author Jim Butcher after 25 years and 14 million books sold. Sourcebooks will publish new editions of Claire Legrand’s “Empirium” trilogy for adult readers. Plus, HBO Max’s It prequel, Welcome to Derry, gets a trailer today.

Nightshade by Michael Connelly leads holds this week. Also in demand are titles by Katherine Center, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, and Rachel Gillig. Haruki Murakami wins the Center for Fiction’s Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award. The Gotham Book Prize winners are announced, including Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough by Ian Frazier and Movement: New York’s Long War To Take Back Its Streets from the Car by Nicole Gelinas. Finalists for the Orwell Prizes are announced. People’s book of the week is Whistle by Linwood Barclay. Plus, June’s LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater.

Mrs. Claus made her debut on the written page in 1849. Over the past two centuries, as this literary and pictorial review discovered, the Christmas character was continually reimagined for juvenile and adult works of fiction, in poetry, lyrics and for musical, theatrical and film productions. This publication is the first to extensively chronicle Mrs. Claus, as presented and published through the years.

Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin wins the Dylan Thomas Prize. Carys Davies’s Clear wins the Ondaatje Prize. Paul Reitter wins the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his translation of Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1. The Atlantic publishes its 2025 summer reading guide. Film studio Somesuch launches its own book imprint. Netflix is adapting S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed as a series. Plus, Page to Screen and a Time magazine feature on Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Abi Daré’s And So I Roar wins the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are announced. Don Winslow comes out of retirement to publish a new collection of crime novellas, The Final Score. Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben team up to write a thriller. Joe Sacco suggests that The Once and Future Riot could be his last work of graphic nonfiction, a genre he pioneered. Iranian novelist Nahid Rachlin has died at age 85. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Prabal Gurung, Daniel Kehlmann, Wendy Corsi Staub, and Michelle Young.

Armstrong delivers a hit for fans of second-chance romance, a perfect summer beach read.

Not since Michael Crichton entertained and thrilled readers with science-driven novels like Sphere and Jurassic Park has there been anything this frightfully fun.