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Awards & News

The Libby Award winners are announced, People reports. The Women by Kristin Hannah wins fiction book of the year, and The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson wins nonfiction book of the year.

The Audie Award winners are announced, with My Name Is Barbra, written and narrated by Barbra Streisand (Books on Tape; LJ starred review), winning Audiobook of the Year. 

Anthony Hopkins will release the memoir We Did OK, Kid (S. & S.: Summit) on November 4. People has the story.

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (S. & S.) is Reese Witherspoon’s March book club pick.

Publishing Perspectives recaps AAP’s December StatShot.

Reviews

NYT reviews I Leave It Up to You by Jinwoo Chong (Ballantine): “The book is a welcome twist on the quickly established (and frequently disappointing) “pandemic novel” subgenre”; No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays by A. Kendra Greene (Tin House): “No Less Strange or Wonderful is a collection marked by this insistence on the genre’s ability to reveal, in both metaphor and fact, what those of us who are not Greene are presumably blowing past as we hurtle through our days”; and The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, tr. by Sarah Moses (Scribner; LJ starred review): “The Unworthy is a novel filled with secrets, and part of the thrill is cracking open one forbidden door at a time. Given that it’s populated almost entirely by women, it’s striking that patriarchal violence is at the center of the Sacred Sisterhood’s rotten core.”

Washington Post reviews Say Everything by Ione Skye (Gallery): “Initially pitched as a sexy Hollywood tell-all, Say Everything is kinder, warmer and more discreet than some readers may itch for”; Woodworking by Emily St. James (Crooked Media Reads: Zando): “Writing a funny novel in which complex, imperfect characters make a compelling case for one of our culture’s most maligned groups—that takes smarts and heart. Fortunately for her readers, St. James is in full possession of both”; and The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Pantheon): “The novel’s startling plot twists don’t merely deliver satisfying literary dopamine hits but function as revelations that confirm our sense of how things work, even in a dystopia.”

LA Times reviews The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf; LJ starred review): “Russell could have written a smaller, less ambitious, book centered only around the Antidote and her immediate clients. However, drawing from her skills as a short story writer, she effortlessly weaves in other characters whose unique gifts shed light on the lacunae of history.” The Guardian also weighs in: “The Antidote is clearly the work of a writer with prodigious gifts…but one who has bitten off more than she can chew.”

LJ highlights March’s starred reviews. 

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Blood Moon by Sandra Brown (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ shares the complete list of July 2025 Prepub Alert titles. 

Seattle Times previews March paperbacks.

CrimeReads shares “7 Essential Domestic Psychological Thrillers.”

BookRiot highlights 10 new nonfiction books out this month.

Electric Lit previews and shares the cover of Yiming Ma’s forthcoming debut novel, These Memories Do Not Belong to Us (Mariner), due out August 12.

Amanda Nguyen talks with Elle about her new book, Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope (AUWA).

People has an interview with Laila Lalami about her novel The Dream Hotel (Pantheon). 

Authors on Air

BBC reflects on how Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel The Leopard remains relevant in 2025. Netflix’s miniseries adaptation of The Leopard releases today. 

Director Jon M. Chu previews a forthcoming Crazy Rich Asians TV series, based on the books by Kevin Kwan, in Entertainment Weekly.

Hollywood Reporter highlights upcoming book adaptations in 2025.

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