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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. 

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.

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

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.

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Benjamin Myers wins the Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Cuddy. Mosab Abu Toha wins the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry for Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. Tania Branigan wins the Cundill History Prize for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution. The winners of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards are announced. The longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize for issue-driven fiction is also announced. Librarians are filing workplace discrimination claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to oppose book bans and their firings.

Maria Stepanova wins the Berman Literature Prize for her family saga In Memory of Memory; the award honors works “in the spirit of the Jewish tradition.” The shortlist is announced for the Nan Shepherd Prize for underrepresented voices in nature writing. Finalists are announced for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. Plus new title best sellers and interviews with Tananarive Due, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Margaret Renkl, and more.

Emily Henry, Debbie Macomber, and Amanda Quick are just some of the names topping the charts.