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Awards, News & Book Clubs

The Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist is announced. The Guardian has coverage. 

The Plutarch Award longlist is announced.

Category winners of AAP PROSE Awards are announced. Publishing Perspectives has details. 

The Audie Awards will be announced later today.  Watch the livestream here.

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (S. & S.) is the B&N book club pick for March. 

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava (Gallery: Scout) is the new GMA book club pick.

HarperCollins will publish posthumous stories and essays by Harper Lee in a forthcoming collection, The Land of Sweet Forever, due out October 21, NYT reports.

A rare hand-written copy of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 has been found after hundreds of years. BBC has the story.

Reviews

NYT reviews Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf): “You wake up fully to Dream Count when it looks at that America with a cocked eye: a place so anxious about toilet paper; a place where the police ‘shoot more than they run’; a place where maternal mortality statistics are organized jaggedly by race”; The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Pantheon): “Despite the influence of Kafka and Dick, the novel’s most obvious reference points are in the American present”; Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia by Charles Hecker (Hurst): “In Zero Sum, Hecker lays bare the callous thinking of foreigners who raked in their profits and turned a blind eye to Russia’s deteriorating political situation”; and The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by Martha S. Jones (Basic Books): “The Trouble of Color is a pointed rebuttal to those who still insist that enslaved peoples’ histories are unknowable, or that Black people cannot be trusted as narrators of their own past.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 25 new books for the week. 

Amazon editors select the best books of March. 

CBC previews 71 Canadian fiction books for spring. 

Autostraddle highlights the “Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2025.”

BookRiot has “11 Must-Read New Queer Books Out in March 2025” and previews new science fiction and fantasy out this month.

ElectricLit shares “9 Twisted Novels About Theatrical Performers.”

Reactor shares “Five SF Novels About Being the Last People on Earth.”

Ione Skye discusses her new memoir, Say Everything (Gallery), with LA Times.

People talks with producer Steve Jones about his new book, Hollywood Confidential: 12 Secrets to Becoming the Star of Your Own Life (Harper Celebrate).

Actor Bill Murray rejects Bob Woodward’s 1984 account of his friend John Belushi that was published in Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi (S. & S.).  Entertainment Weekly has the story. 

People shares details from presidents’ love lives, as revealed in a new book, Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush by Steven M. Gillon (Dutton). 

Time shares an excerpt from Amanda Nguyen’s new book, Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope (AUWA). 

People shares an excerpt from Saltwater by Katy Hays (Ballantine) and suggests it as a companion novel to The White Lotus.

Best selling cop-turned author Joseph Wambaugh passed away Friday at the age of 88. Washington Post has an obituary. NYT also has a remembrance.

National Book Award–winning novelist John Casey has died at the age of 86. NYT has an obituary.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp has died at age 73. NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Jordan Chiles, author of I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams (Harper Influence), reflects on her olympic experience on NPR’s Morning Edition. 

NPR’s Morning Edition interviews Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new book, Dream Count (Knopf). 

Hanif Kureishi talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about his memoir Shattered (Ecco), breaking his neck in an accident, and how writing about his condition gave him purpose. 

Linda Holmes joins NPR’s Bullseye to discuss her new book, Back After This (Ballantine), and her love of romantic comedies.

Hoopla Digital announced three new BingePasses with PBS Distribution. 

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