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Winners of the Oregon Book Award are revealed. Michelle Adams’s The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North receives the Hillman Prize for Journalism. The Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award finalists are announced, as is the shortlist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth. Casey McQuiston reveals a forthcoming Red, White & Royal Blue book project. Counterterrorism expert Erroll Southers‘s forthcoming book Inside the Castle Walls will be adapted for film, while T. L. Swan’s “Miles High Club” books are set for a TV adaptation.

Shortlists for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the inaugural Libraro Prize are revealed. Stolen letters written by John Keats are returned after decades. Publishers Weekly releases a 2026 summer reads preview. Meryl Streep rules out writing a memoir. The Princess Bride, based on the novel by William Goldman, wins LitHub’s bracket-style competition to determine the best literary film adaptation of the last 50 years. Practical Magic 2, based on characters by Alice Hoffman, releases a new trailer. Plus, ALA reveals the 11 most challenged books of 2025.

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Danielle Steel, Susan Patterson & James Patterson, Douglas Preston & Aletheia Preston, and Marcus Kliewer. The LA Times Book Prize winners are announced, including Adam Ross and Justin Haynes. Winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award are announced. BookCon 2026 wrapped up this weekend in NYC; it included an interview with Rachel Reid and big news from Veronica Roth. Plus, National Library Week is underway, with the theme “Find Your Joy.”

Shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and Society of Authors’ Encore Award for best second novel are announced. The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso wins the Baltimore Science Fiction Society’s Compton Crook Award for best debut. Kirkus launches a new indie award. Whoopi Goldberg is starting a publishing imprint at Blackstone. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, Rainbow Rowell, and Susan Page.

Winners are announced for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards; Nell Irvin Painter wins a lifetime achievement award. Recipients of the Whiting Award for Emerging Writers are announced. LA Times looks at the Gen Z and millennial readers reimagining book clubs. Plus, new title bestsellers and an LA Times profile of S. A. Cosby.

Time unveils the 2026 TIME100, which highlights authors Freida McFadden, Yiyun Li, Alan Cumming, Ethan Hawke, and more. U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed for a second term. The Guggenheim Literary Fellows are announced. NYT Book Review kicks of its 2026 Poetry Challenge next week. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Hope Rises by David Baldacci. Dustin Hoffman announces the forthcoming memoir, Look at Me. Plus, a new Pew survey reveals that American adults still prefer print books.

Oprah selects Go Gentle by Maria Semple for her book club. Winners of the Xingyun Awards for Chinese science fiction and shortlists for the Locus Awards, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the Jhalak Prize are announced. Rainbow Rowell discusses her new novel, Cherry Baby. Meryl Wilsner’s queer sports romance Cleat Cute will get a TV series adaptation. Plus, Penguin Random House urges lawmakers to reject book banning bill HR 7661.

Hope Rises by David Baldacci leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Maria Semple, Lena Dunham, Rainbow Rowell, and Jane Harper. People’s book of the week is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Tucker Carlson will launch a new imprint with Skyhorse Publishing. Interviews arrive with Lena Dunham, Nelio Biedermann, Rachel Khong, and Cheryl W. Thompson. Plus, the Canada Reads battle of the books kicks off today.

Shortlists for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Nota Bene Prize are revealed. Said Khatibi wins the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Recipients of the Writing Freedom Fellowship are named, and Jonathan Maberry and Lisa Morton will receive lifetime achievement awards from the Horror Writers Association. Paramount has formed a new publishing imprint, while Farrar, Straus & Giroux will close the MCD imprint. Ana Huang’s “Gods of the Game” sports romance series will get a three-film adaptation. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Mary Fariba Afsari and V. E. Schwab and Cat Clarke.

Winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes and the Indies Choice Book Awards are announced. The pseudonymous Freida McFadden reveals her identity. The Trump administration has withdrawn its appeal of the IMLS case. LA Times has a package on book clubs, while LJ offers its 2026 graphic novels preview. Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower will be adapted as a movie by Warner Bros. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Annabelle Gurwitch, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Tim Blake Nelson.

The National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honorees are Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Anika Jade Levy, Carrie R. Moore, Maggie Su, and Stephanie Wambugu. The Stella Prize shortlist is announced. Black British Book Festival founder Selina Brown receives the inaugural Queen’s Reading Room Medal. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Journalist Maggie Haberman will publish Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump on June 23. Interviews arrive with Rachel Khong, Emma Straub, Julian Barnes, and Patrick Radden Keefe. Plus, LJ’s graphic novel preview and sure bets.

Mahreen Sohail wins the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her story collection Small Scale Sinners. Virginia Evans wins the James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize for The Correspondent. T. J. Stiles is honored with the BIO Award for his career in biography writing, and the winners of the British Science Fiction Association Awards are revealed. The I Love My Librarian Award honorees for outstanding public service are announced. Plus, The Millions’ spring preview and a round-up of April book club picks.

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by John Sandford, Emma Straub, Evelyn Clarke, and Patrick Radden Keefe. Eight LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Mothers and Other Strangers by Corey Ann Haydu. M. R. Carey wins the Philip K. Dick Award for Outlaw Planet.

Finalists for the Christian Book Awards and the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year Awards are revealed. A Tennessee library director was fired for refusing to move LGBTQIA+ children’s books to the adult section. Publishers Weekly reports from the opening day of the PLA 2026 conference. Meryl Streep will star in Netflix’s adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Plus, Page to Screen and a profile of Ben Lerner, author of Transcription.

Winners of the PEN America Literary Awards are announced. André Alexis’s Other Worlds: Stories wins the Story Prize. The Guardian has writers and readers share the books they enjoyed in March. Globe Pequot acquires the crafts-focused Linden Publishing. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Álvaro Enrigue, Colm Tóibín, Jenny Lawson, and Gisèle Pelicot.

Upward Bound by Woody Brown is the April Read with Jenna book club pick; Mothers and Other Strangers by Corey Ann Haydu is B&N’s pick. Vice President J. D. Vance will publish the book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith on June 16. John Green’s first novel for adults, Hollywood, Ending, comes out September 22. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title The Keeper by Tana French. Sandie Jones’s novel The Other Woman will be adapted as a TV series. Plus, LJ has a new prepub alert, featuring titles publishing in August 2026.

Finalists for the International Booker Prize and the Aldiss Award longlist are announced. Vogue’s book club pick for April is Lauren Weisberger’s 2004 novel The Devil Wears Prada. The New York Times Book Review has cut ties with a freelance reviewer who used an AI tool to draft a review. Harlequin announces a partnership with Dashverse to co-produce 40 AI-animated microdramas. Jennifer Probst’s The Marriage Bargain will get a film adaptation. Interviews with Alex Aster, Louise Erdrich, and Caitríona Balfe arrive. Plus, the PLA Conference kicks off tomorrow in Minneapolis.

The Keeper by Tana French leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Navessa Allen, Ilona Andrews, Jenny Lawson, and Arthur C. Brooks. People’s book of the week is Python’s Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich. The Guardian interviews Woody Brown, a nonspeaking autistic man whose debut novel is Upward Bound.

Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced. Luminous by Silvia Park wins the Otherwise Award. The NYT Book Review Book Club will discuss Kenan Orhan’s The Renovation in April. A judge has denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against the Department of Defense Education Activity over book removals. The publisher Callaway Arts & Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy. Plus, Page to Screen and a Lord of the Rings adaptation from Stephen Colbert.

The six-book shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is announced. Ghost Driver by Nell Osborne and Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca Gransden win the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize. Partridge Boswell wins the UK’s National Poetry Competition. Gloria Steinem will publish a memoir, An Unexpected Life. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Arsenio Hall and Wil Wheaton.

Bob Woodward will publish Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir on September 29. In May, The Guardian’s Saturday magazine will publish a landmark list of the 100 best novels of all time. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez. Layne Fargo’s The Favorites will be adapted for film, and a stage version of Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, will premiere in London’s West End this summer. Interviews arrive with Andrew McCarthy, Siew Hii, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, and Bethany C. Morrow.

The Irish Book Awards releases a list featuring 60 of the best books from the past two decades in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Anna Dempsey wins the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction. Finalists for the BMO Winterset Award and the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award are announced. Scribner will re-release Don DeLillo‘s 1980 hockey novel Amazons this fall. Andrew McCarthy and Jordan Ritter Conn examine male loneliness in new books. Chris Colfer is writing his first adult novel, due out summer 2027. Warner Bros. has secured the rights to Richard Powers’s Playground. Carley Fortune’s This Summer Will Be Different will be adapted for TV; her Every Summer After adaptation premieres on June 10.

The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Marie Benedict, T. Kingfisher, Ariel Sullivan, and Louise Erdrich. People’s book of the week is The Golden Boy by Patricia Finn. Christopher Caldwell wins the Crawford Award for Call and Response. There are updates on Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Peter Cameron’s novel What Happens at Night. Film and television action star Chuck Norris, both author and subject of numerous titles, has died at the age of 86.

BIO reveals the longlist for the Plutarch Award for best biography. The shortlist for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize is announced. Hachette has cancelled Mia Ballard’s horror novel Shy Girl over the author’s suspected use of AI. The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is advancing the national book ban bill, HR 7661. Jane Fonda will star in a film adaptation of Virginia Evans’s The Correspondent. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Fab 5 Freddy and Christina Applegate.

Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards and the shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize are revealed. The current Middle East conflcit could cause ripple effects in the book supply chain. There are profiles of 2 Chainz and Anne Lamott and her husband Neal Allen and interviews with Francis Spufford, Jeff Boyd, Rebecca Lehmann, and George Saunders. Plus, new title bestsellers, a March/April 2026 romantasy report, and vampire novels to sink one’s teeth into.

Virginia Evans wins the PEN/Hemingway Award for her novel The Correspondent. Historian Lyndal Roper wins the Holberg Prize. The Climate Fiction Prize shortlistand Jhalak Prize longlists are announced. Baker & Taylor files for bankruptcy. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line by Elle Cosimano. Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is currently being adapted for TV. A new trailer arrives for Dune: Part Three.

The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award winners are announced, with Jeff Hobbs winning the Lukas Book Prize for Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America and William Dalrymple winning the Mark Lynton History Prize for The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The shortlist for the James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize is announced, along with the finalists for the Publishing Triangle Awards. April’s LibraryReads list features top pick Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes will be adapted as a graphic novel. British spy novelist Len Deighton has died at 97, and Margareta Magnusson, author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, has died at 92.

Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line by Elle Cosimano leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Sandra Brown, Benjamin Stevenson, Elle Kennedy, and Elizabeth Berg. The Nebula Awards final ballot and the Stella Prize longlist are revealed. The Bookseller reports on the “Booktok meltdown” following Sarah J. Maas’s announcement of two forthcoming ACOTAR books. The Atlantic writes about customers re-embracing Barnes & Noble. Idris Elba will coauthor a new thriller series. Plus, bookish films collect multiple Academy Awards.

Finalists for the Thriller Awards, the Indies Choice Book Awards, and the Carnegie Medals are revealed. The big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him comes out today, and NYT explains why Hoover books are hot intellectual property in Hollywood. CrimeReads shares Indian mysteries and the best paperback releases of the month, while Reactor highlights March’s essential horror titles. Plus, Billie Eilish will star in a new adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada. The Bancroft Prize goes to Emilie Connolly’s Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States and Beth Lew-Williams’s John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law. Finalists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize are revealed. LitHub selects 13 essential books by trans and queer writers. Former first lady Jill Biden is publishing a memoir. Plus, new title bestsellers.

Scarpetta, the long-awaited adaptation of the novels by Patricia Cornwell, arrives on Amazon Prime Video today. Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will receive the Biblio Award from Biographers International Organization. The 15th Nantucket Book Festival announces its lineup, including Ann Patchett, Jenna Bush Hager, and Richard Russo. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Judge Stone by James Patterson & Viola Davis. BookRiot lists the best mysteries and thrillers of the century so far. Plus, interviews with T Kira Madden, Liza Minnelli, Rebecca Serle, Kathie Lee Gifford, Lauren Graham, and Tom Junod.

Maria Reva wins the Gordon Burn Prize for her novel Endling. The longlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is announced. Former Amazon executive Greg Greeley is named CEO of Simon & Schuster. Amy Griffin is being sued by a former classmate over details in her 2025 memoir The Tell. Formerly detained WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich announces a book, This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story. Katie Kitamura’s novel A Separation will be adapted for the big screen. Interviews arrive with Lucy Score, Liza Minnelli, Valerie Bertinelli, Robin Arzon, and Amy Jo Burns. Plus, highlights, protest, and analysis from the London Book Fair.

Judge Stone by James Patterson and Viola Davis leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Tiffany Crum, T Kira Madden, Liza Minnelli, and Rebecca Serle. Five LibraryReads and two Indie Next picks publish this week. People’s book of the week is Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser. Interviews arrive with Patterson and Davis, Julia May Jonas, Mark Oppenheimer, and Lloyd Blankfein. One Battle After Another (inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland) wins best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards.

Shortlists for the British Book Awards, British Science Fiction Association Awards, European Union Prize for Literature, and Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are announced. NYT previews 32 novels and 26 nonfiction books coming this spring. Sandra Cisneros, Marie Howe, Pico Iyer, Rick Moody, Carl Phillips, and Arthur Sze are inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Patrick Stewart will perform Shakespeare’s complete sonnets in a new audiobook. Novelist António Lobo Antunes has died at 83. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Lloyd Blankfein, Roger Bennett, and Adam Mars-Jones.

The 16-book longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction is announced. Claire Lynch’s A Family Matter wins the Nero Gold Prize, while Rufi Thorpe’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles receives Texas State University’s L. D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. Judi Dench has written a memoir. LitHub reports from an all-men book club and explains why so many women authors are writing about bears. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Lindy West and Annie Leibovitz.

Winners of the Libby Book Awards and Audie Awards are announced, as are finalists for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Marc DeBevoise is named president of OverDrive. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir by Christina Applegate. Reese Witherspoon picks Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser as her March book club read. Sarah J. Maas discusses ACOTAR 6 and more on the Call Her Daddy podcast. M. L. Rio’s 2017 novel If We Were Villains will be adapted as a TV series. Plus, starred reviews from LJ’s March issue.

Finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction are announced. The PROSE R. R. Hawkins Award goes to Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades by David Eltis. The Republic of Consciousness Prize shortlist is announced. Tananarive Due is named toastmaster for the 61st Annual Nebula Awards and will also be the guest of honor at the Locus Awards. March book club picks include Amy Jo Burns’s Wait for Me (Read with Jenna), Elizabeth Arnott’s The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives (GMA), Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Lake Effect (B&N), and Anna Quindlen’s More Than Enough (Katie Couric). Plus, interviews with Christina Applegate, Cristina Rivera Garza, Gina Gershon, Namwali Serpell, and Cazzie David.

You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir by Christina Applegate leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Susan Mallery, Danielle Steel, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, and Cara Bastone. People’s book of the week is Kin by Tayari Jones. Amazon editors select the best books of March. LJ’s Prepub Alert previews titles publishing in July. Award-winning science fiction and horror writer Dan Simmons has died at the age of 77.

The Read with Jenna book club selects Amy Jo Burns’s Wait for Me as its March read, while NYT’s Book Review Book Club picks Tayari Jones’s Kin. The Baltimore Science Fiction Society reveals the finalists for the Compton Crook Award. Congressional Republicans propose a nationwide book-banning bill targeting books on LGBTQIA+ topics. LitHub selects the best book covers of February. NYT and Kirkus recommend titles coming out in March. Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth: A Recent History is being adapted as a film. Plus, Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus will publish her second novel this fall.

Literary winners of the NAACP Image Awards are announced, including Nnedi Okorafor, Charles Fancher, Juanita Tolliver, Patricia Smith, and a graphic novel adaptation of an Octavia E. Butler title. Locus publishes its 2025 Recommended Reading list of genre titles. NYT writes about the deluge of publishing scams targeting both new and established authors. Spotify launches Audiobook Charts, a list of its most popular audiobook titles of the week. Publishing Perspectives examines how Ukraine is redefining war literature. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Melissa Auf der Maur, Brian Platzer, Tayari Jones, and B. K. Borison.

Oprah picks Kin by Tayari Jones for her book club. The 13-book International Booker Prize longlist and the PROSE Award winners are announced. Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid delays the publication of her new “Game Changers” novel to 2027. Publishing Perspectives confirms that Hachette is now the third largest publisher in the U.S., after solid 2025 earnings. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title And Now, Back to You by B. K. Borison. Plus, what to know about the forthcoming movie adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s Nightingale.

Michelle Obama’s The Look and Will Packer’s Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big win NAACP Image Awards. The Aurealis Awards winners are revealed. The Horror Writers Association announces the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards. ABA’s Winter Institute 2026 is underway in Pittsburgh. Tyrant Books will relaunch following a period of inactivity after founder Giancarlo DiTrapano’s death in 2021. Ingram is launching Covered, a new catalog and galley-discovery service for publishers, booksellers, and librarians. Plus, V. Castro’s The Haunting of Alejandra will be adapted as a series at Hulu.

And Now, Back to You by B. K. Borison leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by C. J. Box, Tayari Jones, Anna Quindlen, and Michael Pollan. Six LibraryReads and seven Indie Next picks publish this week, including a book of stories by Lauren Groff. People’s book of the week is Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky. Shortlists for the Lukas Prizes are revealed. One Battle After Another, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, wins several BAFTAs, including best adapted screenplay. A biography of legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu will publish September 15. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Susan Sheehan has died at the age of 88.

Winners of the National Jewish Book Awards are announced, with Eli Sharabi’s Hostage winning Book of the Year. The finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Awards for best debut novel are revealed: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan, and Blob by Maggie Su. The Horror Writers Association announces its Summer Scares Reading list, including Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Maeve Fly by CJ Leede, and A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock. Plus, Page to Screen, a new novel from Barbara Kingsolver, and a Fresh Air interview with Michael Pollan.

Finalists for the LA Times Book Prizes and the shortlist for the Unwin Award for early-career nonfiction writers are revealed. Zando is launching a new horror imprint, Evil Twin. Book clubs are still swooning over Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and gothic romance is uniting pop and literary fandoms. Audible introduces a feature that pairs audiobook narration with synchronized, highlighted text. Plus, new title bestsellers, a profile of Tayari Jones, and Anne Fadiman’s “Annotated Nightstand.”

Ohio Humanities launches a yearlong celebration of Nobel Prize–winning Ohioan Toni Morrison. Andy Weir wins the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The Dublin Literary Award longlist and the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards shortlists are revealed. Audible names 15 new inductees to its Narrator Hall of Fame. Kentucky governor Andy Beshear announces his forthcoming memoir, Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country, due out September 22. Plus, LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title The Astral Library by Kate Quinn.

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Mark Greaney, Heather Fawcett, B. A. Paris, and Grant Ginder. People’s book of the week is This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman. Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir A Hymn to Life: Shame Has To Change Sides arrives with buzz. Wuthering Heights, based on the novel by Emily Brontë, tops opening weekend box office returns. Adaptations are in the works for Jonathan Rose’s true crime book Innocents: How Justice Failed Stefan Kiszko and Lesley Molseed and Giles Paley-Phillips’s bestselling novel One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days. Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and subject of the new book A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power by Abby Phillip, has died at the age of 84.

The film adaptation of Wuthering Heights premieres today, sparking lots of analysis. PEN America names new leadership. The Atlantic examines the near-monopoly that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has on American arts and letters. Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz is publishing his third novel this fall. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger, Emily Nemens, and Eleanor Shearer.

Harlequin will cease production of Harlequin Historicals after nearly 40 years. The American Girl doll Samantha is getting her first novel for adults. EarlyWord’s February GalleyChat is now available. The new Netflix adaptation of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence was the fruit of years of effort by the author. Plus, new title bestsellers, interviews with James Lee Burke and Allegra Goodman, and takeaways from ALA’s “Recharging in Challenging Times” virtual conference.

Longlists for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Climate Fiction Prize are revealed. Publishers Weekly rounds up February’s book club picks. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Cross & Sampson by James Patterson & Brian Sitts. Stephen King’s 1980 novella The Mist will get a new film adaptation. Amy Sherman-Palladino will write and direct a feature adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits. Prime Video announces a new TV adaptation of Chloe Walsh’s “Boys of Tommen” series. Plus, LJ’s “RA Crossroads” column provides whole-collection readers’ advisory for Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation.

The Oregon Book Awards finalists are revealed, along with the Otherwise Fellowship recipients. A 10-book longlist for the inaugural James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize is announced. The New Yorker laments the end of Washington Post’s books section and what it means for readers. Actress Emma Thompson will narrate the audio version of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir A Hymn to Life: Shame Has To Change Sides. Clare Mackintosh’s forthcoming novel It’s Not What You Think will be adapted for TV, and Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic is being adapted as a stage musical. Plus, interviews with Wil Haygood, Laura Mauldin, Alice Evelyn Yang, and Stephen Grosz.

Cross & Sampson by James Patterson & Brian Sitts leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Ali Hazelwood, Matt Dinniman, Brad Thor, and Sadeqa Johnson. People’s book of the week is This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page. The March Indie Next preview is out, featuring #1 pick And Now, Back to You by B. K. Borison. The longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is announced. Plus, romance reads for Valentine’s Day.

Winners of the Porchlight Business Book Awards are revealed. Spotify announces Page Match, a technology by which readers can switch between reading a physical copy of a book and listening to the audiobook version of it by scanning the page. NYT recommends the essential Toni Morrison and writes about the disappearance of the mass-market paperback. Plus, Page to Screen.

Libby Book Awards finalists are revealed. Finalists are also announced for the Aurealis Awards, honoring the best Australian sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books. Washington Post is eliminating its books section amid company-wide layoffs. Norton is acquiring Thames & Hudson’s college list. LitHub examines the phenomenon of the world’s biggest Twitch streamer, Kai Cenat, reading books aloud on his live streams. Plus, new title bestsellers.

Reese Witherspoon’s book club picks In Her Defense by Philippa Malicka for February; B&N selects Good People by Patmeena Sabit. February’s Earphone Award winners are revealed. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Stolen in Death by J. D. Robb. Brandon Sanderson discusses adaptations of his “Cosmere” universe. There are new trailers for Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on the novel by Rufi Thorpe, and Imperfect Women, based on the novel by Araminta Hall. Plus, LJ’s 2026 Prepub Alert Preview arrives.

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction longlist and shortlists for the Aurealis Awards and the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize are announced. Ingram Library Services will add staff and expand operations to meet the need brought about by Baker & Taylor’s closing. Louise Penny announces her next Inspector Gamache novel, Miss Wolcott’s Ghost, will publish October 27. Helena Bonham Carter, Caitríona Balfe, Emma Laird, and Anthony Hopkins have signed on to star in the adaptation of Rose Tremain’s short story–turned–forthcoming novel The Housekeeper. Plus, booklists for Black History Month.

Stolen in Death by J. D. Robb leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Mary Kubica, Jonathan Kellerman, Jo Nesbø, and Demi Winters. People’s book of the week is If I Ruled the World by Amy DuBois Barnett. One & Only by Maurene Goo is the February Read with Jenna pick, and The Exes by Leodora Darlington is GMA’s pick. Novelist James Sallis has died at the age of 81. Plus, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama wins the Grammy for best audiobook.

Amir Tibon’s The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands wins the Wingate Literary Prize, for the book that best conveys “the idea of Jewishness to the general reader.” PEN America reveals the finalists for its Literary Awards. Publishers Weekly explores ALA’s inaugural comics awards. NYT’s Book Review Book Club picks Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as its February read. LA Times asks critics and authors to share the books they can’t wait to read in 2026. Plus, Page to Screen and Susan Choi’s favorite books.

The National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature honorees are revealed: Ancient Light: Poems by Kimberly Blaeser, Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, and Bog Queen by Anna North. Crime novelist Mark Billingham wins the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s Diamond Dagger. The Audie Award finalists and the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards are announced. Poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Cornelius Eady are elected to the board of chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Plus, new title bestsellers and “abolish ICE” reading lists with free ebooks.

The Andrew Carnegie Medal winners are revealed, with A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar winning the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li winning the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The RUSA Book and Media Award winners are announced, including the Notable Books List, Reading List, Listen List, Essential Cookbooks, Dartmouth Medal, and Outstanding References Sources List; Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein receives the Sophie Brody Medal. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden. Kirkus has a spring 2026 nonfiction preview.

The shortlist for the inaugural Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing is announced. Interviews arrive with Spencer Pratt, George Saunders, Jim Curtis, Imani Perry, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Heather Ann Thompson. NYPL will offer instant ebook access to Rachel Reid’s “Heated Rivalry” series until Valentine’s Day. Daniel Kraus is adapting his novel Angel Down for the big screen, while Amy DuBois Barnett’s If I Ruled the World will be adapted for television at Hulu. Plus, winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence will be announced today.

Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by George Saunders, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Nikesha Elise Williams, and Don Winslow. People’s book of the week is Crux by Gabriel Tallent. The Association of Jewish Libraries reveals the recipients of the Jewish Fiction Award, including winner Kaplan’s Plot by Jason Diamond and honor books Sisters of Fortune by Esther Chehebar, Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein, and The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez. The Dylan Thomas Prize longlist is announced. Plus, 2026 book previews.

Finalists are named for the Gotham Book Prize, and the longlist is revealed for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, U.S. and Canada. Academy Awards nominations are announced, including Best Picture nods for the literary adaptations Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, and Train Dreams. The political action committee EveryLibrary releases its 2025 impact report. We Need Diverse Books launches the Unbanned Book Network to help teachers counter book bans. Plus, Fresh Air interviews Quiara Alegria Hudes, author of The White Hot.

The longlist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel is announced. Abrams will launch its first commercial fiction imprint, akaStory, in Jan. 2027, with its first title being Her Life in Ruins by Cynthia W. Gentry. The Trump administration appeals the Rhode Island v. Trump permanent injunction that is preventing further harm to the IMLS. Amazon launches its Digital Arabic Library with 33,000 Arabic-language ebooks, 5,000 audiobooks, and 1,000 free titles. EarlyWord posts its January GalleyChat. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Jennette McCurdy, Martha Ackmann, and Jessica Lopez Lyman.

Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. Novelist Eugene Lim wins the John Dos Passos Prize. Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards and nominees for the Edgar Awards and the Splatterpunk Awards are announced. The Millions publishes its winter 2026 preview. Tor announces a new multigenre imprint, Wildthorn Books, whose first publication will be TJ Klune’s The Stars Look Like Home in Jan. 2027. ThriftBooks launches its 500 Billion Page Challenge to encourage Americans to read again. Plus, a TV series based on Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware detective novels is in the works.

My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Jennette McCurdy, Jim Butcher, Ashley Winstead, and Simone St. James. People’s book of the week is Scavengers by Kathleen Boland. LitHub selects the best book covers of the decade. Publishers Weekly reports on the groups fighting book bans across the U.S. Julian Barnes says that Departure(s) will be his last novel. Plus, interviews with Malcolm Kempt, Suzette Partido, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Finalists are announced for the Story Prize for best short fiction collection: Other Worlds by André Alexis, Atavists by Lydia Millet, and Long Distance by Ayşegül Savaş. The United States Artists writing fellows are revealed. After a year in limbo, the IMLS begins accepting grant applications for fiscal year 2026. Plus, new title bestsellers, newly discovered Harper Lee letters, and interviews with George Saunders, Julian Barnes, Vauhini Vara, and Karan Mahajan.

Category winners for the Nero Book Awards are announced, including Benjamin Wood’s Seascraper, Claire Lynch’s A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man. The Philip K. Dick Award nominees are announced and the Mystery Writers of America name Donna Andrews and Lee Child as its two newest Grand Masters. The Independent Publishers Caucus and ABA launch a new weekly bestseller list for titles from indie publishers. “Bridgerton” author Julia Quinn launches a new romance novel subscription service. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston. A TV series based on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been greenlit. Plus, LJ names its 2025 reviewers of the year.

Katie Couric launches her new book club, KCBC, and selects The Correspondent by Virginia Evans as the inaugural read. Nominees for the GLAAD Media Awards are announced. Rachel Reid will publish her seventh “Heated Rivalry” book, Unrivaled, on September 29. Colleen Hoover, who publishes Woman Down today, reveals her cancer diagnosis. NCAA announces it will donate books to libraries on behalf of the top 30 honorees for the Woman of the Year award. Justin Halpern’s I Suck at Girls will get a series adaptation at Netflix. The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia by Guy Lawson and William Oldham will be adapted for film. Plus, interviews with Madeline Cash, C. Thi Nguyen, Oprah Winfrey, Kathleen Boland, and Tracy K. Smith.

Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Colleen Hoover, Belle Burden, Madeline Cash, James Patterson & Adam Hamdy, and Danielle Steel. People’s book of the week is Why We Drink Too Much: The Impact of Alcohol on Our Bodies and Culture by Charles Knowles. Children’s book author Mac Barnett will publish his first book for adults, Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children (Little, Brown), on May 5. Golden Globe winners include adaptations One Battle After Another, inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, and Hamnet, adapted from the novel by Maggie O’Farrell.

Marilyn Booth wins the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her translation of Zahran Alqasmi’s novel Honey Hunger. CBC releases a longlist for Canada Reads 2026. Children’s publisher Marble Press acquires the catalog and IP of CamCat Books from Baker & Taylor. CrimeReads highlights the most anticipated crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers of 2026. Publishers Weekly notes “9 Books That Should Be on Your Radar in 2026.” Plus, Page to Screen and a reconsideration of The Joy Luck Club.

Winners of the Pacific Northwest Book Awards are announced. NPR reports on how Baker & Taylor’s closing will affect libraries. OverDrive challenges the Library E-book Pricing Fairness Amendment Act proposed by the city of Washington, DC. On behalf of the Kurt Vonnegut estate, authors, high schoolers, and the ACLU bring a lawsuit against a Utah law that has forced the removal of some books from schools. Prominent evangelical author Philip Yancey retires from writing after an extramarital affair. Vulture profiles a professor who uses unconventional methods to get his students to read novels. Plus, interviews with Amit Chaudhuri, Matthew Pearl, and Eric Lichtblau.

LJ kicks off a yearlong 150th anniversary celebration with sure bets, an interview with Nancy Pearl, and a reboot of “The Readers Shelf.” Winners of the Silvers-Dudley Prize and Prometheus Hall of Fame finalists are announced. Kirkus has purchased AudioFile and will begin coverage of audiobooks. Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado will publish The Freedom Manifesto on March 17. A sequel to the movie The Housemaid, based on the novel by Frieda McFadden, is in the works. Plus, 2026 previews.

LitHub releases its “Most Anticipated Books of 2026” list. January book club picks are revealed: Reese Witherspoon chooses The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave; Jenna Bush Hager selects Homeschooled: A Memoir by Stefan Merrill Block; and GMA picks Skylark by Paula McLain. School Library Journal launches its own weekly Book Pulse post and newsletter. Andrew Richard Albanese is named editor in chief of Publishing Perspectives. Harper Christian acquires DaySpring Publishing from Hallmark. A newly published Yougov poll finds that most Americans didn’t read many books in 2025. Plus, interviews with Harlan Coben, Jacob Soboroff, and Robert Jobson.

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Rachel Hawkins, James Patterson & Susan DiLallo, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Paula McLain. People’s book of the week is The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits. Kirkus Audiobook Reviews, formerly Audiofile, announces the January 2026 Earphones Award winners. Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple mystery novel, Murder at the Vicarage, and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying are among the books that enter the public domain in 2026. Plus, 2026 book previews.

NYT selects the best graphic novels and poetry of 2025, Vulture has the year’s best comedy books and Anthony Jeselnik’s selections for the best novels, CrimeReads picks 2025’s best espionage novels, and NPR highlights its 10 favorite cookbooks of the year. The Bookseller looks at over 1,000 titles on the media’s best-of-2025 lists and finds that David Szalay’s Flesh and Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny received the most mentions. The 2026 State of Reading Report from Everand and Fable found that respondents prefer book recommendations from people they know personally over recommendations from algorithms and social media. The longlist for the Porchlight Business Book Awards is released. Earlyword’s December GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. Plus, Page to Screen and Taylor Swift’s love of Daphne Du Maurier.

LitHub selects the year’s best book covers. NYT Book Review staffers recommend their favorite “hidden gem” books of 2025. NYT’s mystery columnist Sarah Weinman picks the year’s best mysteries. People gathers 2025’s best celebrity photobooks. Comedian Anthony Jeselnik will launch a book club in 2026. The social reading app Fable and digital subscription service Everand issue their second annual State of Reading Report. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Michael J. Fox, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Phil Jackson.

Darrell Kinsey wins the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for Natch. Aaron Williams wins the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era. Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan share their picks for the best books of 2025. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for this week’s top holds title, Spasm by Robin Cook. New books are coming from Ryan Lochte, RaeAnne Thayne, Dana Perino, and Ibram X. Kendi. Confessions of a Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella has died at the age of 55.

The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal of a Texas library book ban, meaning that the library’s removal of books about LGBTQIA+ and race subjects will stand. The Westminster Book Awards shortlist is announced. BookRiot launches its 2026 Read Harder Challenge. Brandon Sanderson will crowdfund a new “Cosmere” series novel in 2026. Actor Eric Dane’s Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments will publish in 2026. A new thriller about the Louvre heist from Alex von Tunzelmann is also forthcoming. Emily Giffin’s novel All We Ever Wanted will get a series adaptation at Netflix. The Golden Globe nominations are announced, featuring several adaptations. Plus, more best of 2025.

Spasm by Robin Cook leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Brandon Sanderson, Arnaldur Indridason, Jacquelyn Mitchard and L. M. Chilton. People’s book of the week is Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards. A number of best-of-2025 lists arrive. Sarah Stewart Taylor wins the Nero Award for Agony Hill. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award longlists are announced. The long-running comic strip Cathy marks 50 years with an anniversary collection. Jan Karon’s 1996 series starter At Home in Mitford, along with her latest Mitford novel, My Beloved, occupy the top two spots on Amazon’s Movers & Shakers list. Plus, NYT publishes an obituary for the thriller and romance writer Fern Michaels, who has died at the age of 92.

The Atlantic releases “The Atlantic 10,” a list of the most thought-provoking books of the year. The Guardian names 2025’s best memoirs and biographies, poetry books, and science-fiction novels. LA Times picks the best books and other media of the year. Winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards are announced. The longlist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career fiction writers is announced. Explore LJ's best books of the year. A court order has restored federal funding for the IMLS, which will recommence giving grants. Plus, Page to Screen and an interview with interior designer Vern Yip.

Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip wins the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. The Guardian picks the five best romance novels and young adult books of 2025. Reese Witherspoon’s media and lifestyle company Hello Sunshine is creating a Gen Z–focused book club called Sunnie Reads. Plus, new title bestsellers, NPR staffers’ favorite books of the year, and interviews with Sven Beckert and Mel Robbins.

Hannah Durkin wins the Wolfson History Prize for her book The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade. PEN America will honor Ann Patchett with its PEN/Audible Literary Service Award. Spotify’s annual “Wrapped” year-end review arrives, featuring audiobook data for the first time. Reese Witherspoon’s December book club pick is The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage. Actress and author Lauren Graham is writing a Gilmore Girls book, due out in 2027. Plus, Netflix releases a new trailer for People We Meet on Vacation, based on the novel by Emily Henry.

NYT names the 10 best books of 2025. Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know is Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Tom Paulin wins the PEN Heaney Prize for Namanlagh. FutureBook Awards winners are announced. Rosanna Pike won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction, and Marina Lewycka wins the Vintage Bollinger Prize. Best-of-the-year lists arrive from The Guardian, LitHub, and King County Public Library. Poet Amanda Gorman is named UNICEF’s new ambassador. Louise Penny will team up with Melissa Fung for the novel The Last Mandarin, due out in May 2026.

The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds is named Waterstones Book of the Year. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy is Foyles Book of the Year. NYT names 100 Notable Books of 2025 and NPR releases its 2025 list of Books We Love. Audiofile announces the the best audiobooks of 2025. Crowntide by Alex Aster leads holds lists this week. People’s book of the week is Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day by Tamar Adler. January’s Indie Next list features #1 pick The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave. Read with Jenna picks Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for its December book club, while GMA picks Marisa Kashino’s Best Offer Wins. NYT’s Book Review Book Club will read Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know. Gregory Maguire will release Galinda: A Charmed Childhood in September 2026. Remembrances arrive for playwright Tom Stoppard, novelist Daniel Woodrell, and poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.

Washington Post selects the 10 best books—fiction and nonfiction—of 2025, plus 50 notable fiction titles and 10 top audiobooks from the year. NYPL reveals its picks for the best books of 2025. Shortlists for the UK’s Nero Book Awards are announced. Missouri courts have overturned a state law criminalizing teachers and school librarians for providing books deemed to be sexually explicit. Plus, Page to Screen and a feature on Ann Packer, author of the new Oprah’s Book Club pick Some Bright Nowhere.

Winners of the National Book Awards are announced, including Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) for fiction and Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This for nonfiction. Winners of the Saltires, Scotland’s national book awards, are revealed, including a lifetime achievement award for novelist Kate Atkinson. Washington Post picks 2025’s 50 best works of nonfiction and 10 best science fiction and fantasy books. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Jacob Silverman, Suleika Jaouad, and David Lebovitz.

Shortlists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction are announced. Audible names Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere the best audiobook of the year. Amazon UK selects Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall as the best book of the year. Earlyword’s November GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts. Project Hail Mary, based on the book by Andy Weir, and The Chronology of Water, based on the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, release new trailers. Plus, the 76th annual National Book Awards ceremony will be held tonight at 8 PM EST.

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins the Giller Prize for her novel Pick a Color. Christina MacSweeney wins the Cercador Prize for her translation of Jazmina Barrera’s The Queen of Swords. New Zealand’s Ockham Book Awards has disqualified two authors because their publisher used AI in the creation of their cover designs. December’s LibraryReads features top pick The Gallagher Place by Julie Doar. PRH Christian Publishing Group will launch the reader-facing content hub Grace Corner. Plus, interviews with Cynthia Erivo, Samin Nosrat, Nate Berkus, Alison Roman, and Dick Van Dyke.

The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Callie Hart, James Patterson, Danielle Steel, and Rhys Bowen. November’s top LibraryReads pick, I, Medusa by Ayana Gray, is also People’s book of the week. N. K. Jemisin is named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. Longlists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Wingate Prize are announced. Financial Times names its best books of the year. Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl and Dopesick, announces she will run for Congress. When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén will be adapted for film. Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong has died at the age of 51.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kirkus reveal their picks for the best books of 2025. Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye is the No. 1 book on Amazon’s list, while Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser and Good Things: Recipes and Rituals To Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat are Barnes & Noble’s Books of the Year. Libro.fm releases its list of the top-selling audiobooks of the year. Winners of the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards and finalists for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction are announced. Plus, Page to Screen and interviews with David Szalay, Lily King, Annie Leibovitz, and Michelle Obama.

Palestinian novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah wins the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The shortlist is revealed for Canada’s Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Winners of the Taste Canada Awards for cookbooks and food writing are announced. Waterstones names the Irish, Scottish, and Welsh books of the year, all debuts. After a year of political imprisonment in Algeria, award-winning Algerian French novelist Boualem Sansal has been released. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with George Packer and Jim Clyburn.

David Szalay’s rags-to-riches novel Flesh wins the Booker Prize. Time releases its list of the 100 must-read books of 2025. Oprah’s book club selects Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer, and Publishers Weekly rounds up the rest of November’s book club picks. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title The King’s Ransom by Janet Evanovich. David Morse will narrate the audio version of Allen Levi’s breakout debut Theo of Golden. USA Today looks into a new special edition of Jennifer L. Armentrout’s The Primal of Blood and Bone that smells like garlic. Plus, June 2026 will see the publication of Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto, his first novel for adults in five years.

The King’s Ransom by Janet Evanovich leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by David Baldacci, Lee Child and Andrew Child, Travis Baldree, and James Islington. People’s book of the week is Innocence Road by Laura Griffin. Sue Prideaux wins the American Library in Paris Book Award for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. NYT distills the essential Kate Atkinson. Interviews with Olivia Laing, Padma Lakshmi, and Maggie Nelson arrive. Plus, the Booker Prize winner will be announced today at 4:30 p.m. EST at a ceremony in London.

Winners of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2025 are announced. Thriller writer David Baldacci is funding an initiative to address toxic political discourse. The Maryland Board of Education has reversed a decision by Harford County schools to ban Mike Curato’s illustrated novel Flamer from its libraries. Amazon launches an AI translation service for self-publishing authors. Plus, Page to Screen and morning-show appearances by Andrew Zimmern and Rainn Wilson.

We Live Here Now by C. D. Rose wins the Goldsmiths Prize for “fiction that breaks the mold.” OCLC’s lawsuit against Baker & Taylor over its creation of BTCat moves ahead in court. NYT asks readers to share their thoughts on which nominee should win Monday’s Booker Prize. Vulture updates its list of the best books of 2025 so far. Plus, interviews with Michael W. Twitty, Ben Schott, Padma Lakshmi, and Baillie Gifford Prize winner Helen Garner.

Helen Garner’s How To End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998 wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, marking the first time a collection of diaries has won the award. Alan Hollinghurst wins the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and Sara Pascoe wins the inaugural Jilly Cooper Award for her novel Weirdo. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Otherwise Engaged by Susan Mallery. Plus, a new film based on the life of Ernest Hemingway is in the works.

The November pick for the Read with Jenna book club is Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Cursed Daughters. B&N’s November pick is Erin O. White’s Like Family. Laurent Mauvignier wins France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt literary award. The British Fantasy Awards winners are announced. Blackwell’s Book of the Year shortlist is revealed. The Bookseller reports on the continuing success of horror book sales. PopSugar delves into romantasy’s shadow daddy archetype and shares reading prompts for 2026. Frederick Forsyth’s The Odessa File will be getting a new screen adaptation. Former vice president and author of several political memoirs Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.

Otherwise Engaged by Susan Mallery leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by John Irving, Charles Finch, Anthony Hopkins, and Margaret Atwood. People’s book of the week is Coldwire by Chloe Gong. Lyndal Roper wins the Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War. Audiofile announces November’s Earphones Award winners. Ann Patchett will publish a new novel, Whistler, in June. Martha Stewart releases a facsimilie edition of her 1982 book Entertaining. Macmillan acquires the backlist and frontlist titles of mind/body/spirit publisher Sounds True. Plus, best books for November.

NYT’s Book Review Book Club selects Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet as its next read. Esquire picks the best books of 2025 thus far. The shortlist for the UK’s William Hill Sports Book of the Year is announced. Libraries are scrambling for new books after Baker & Taylor ended operations. Florida-based indie publisher Mango is shutting down. Fantagraphics is creating an imprint dedicated to East Asian comics and graphic novels. Plus, plenty of recommended reading for Halloween.