Reviews+

Books about flower-arranging, knitting, and essential sewing skills are topping the charts.

Arundhati Roy wins the PEN Pinter Prize amid prosecution threat over Kashmir comments. The longlist for the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime novel and the shortlist for the TLS Ackerley Prize for memoir and autobiography are announced. Authors Against Book Bans officially launches. Plus, new title bestsellers.

David Baldacci, James Patterson, and Lisa Scottoline are just some of the names topping the charts.

British graphic novelist Posy Simmonds wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize is announced. The longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers, aged 39 or under, is released. Plus, new title best sellers.

Katherine Hall Page and R.L. Stine are named 2024 Grand Masters by the Mystery Writers of America. Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola—The Untold Story by Benjamin Black wins the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. The audiobook of Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths wins the Listening Books Members’ Choice Award. New best sellers arrive. Sci-fi novelist Terry Bisson has died at age 81. 

Nora Roberts, Elin Hilderbrand, and Stephen King are just some of the names topping the charts.

The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction is announced. Tor.com releases its Reviewers’ Choice list of the best books of 2023. Vanity Fair shares its 20 favorite books of 2023. The Millions publishes more of its annual Year in Reading series. CrimeReads selects the best espionage novels of 2023. Poets&Writers publishes its “Nineteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets.” Plus new title best sellers.

The winners of the National Book Award are announced: Justin Torres’s Blackouts, Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [åmot], and Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain, tr. by Bruna Dantas Lobato. Halik Kochanski wins the Wolfson History Prize for Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939–1945. Kirkus lists its best fiction of 2023. Washington Post shares more picks for the best books of 2023. Plus new title best sellers.

Top reference books for building collections.