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Book Clubs, Awards & News

Oprah picks Kin by Tayari Jones (Knopf; LJ starred review) for her book club; LA Times has coverage. Jones talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about her novel and answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. NYT reviews the novel: “When reading Kin, I wanted nothing more than to keep reading it. That’s the circle Jones creates, the one that connects her voice, her characters and her readers.”

The 13-book International Booker Prize longlist is announced. The Guardian and NYT have coverage.

The PROSE Award winners are announced. Category winners are listed here. 

The 2026 Locus Awards will have Nnedi Okorafor as Guest of Honor. 

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid delays the publication of her new “Game Changers” novel to 2027 due to health concerns, CBC reports. NYT and USA Today also have coverage. 

Publishing Perspectives confirms that Hachette is now the third largest publisher in the U.S., after solid 2025 earnings. 

Reviews

NYT reviews I Give You My Silence by Mario Vargas Llosa, tr. by Adrian Nathan West (Farrar): “A fitting farewell from a gifted novelist whose best work was fueled by his own warring emotions and ideas.”

The Atlantic reviews A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): “His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.”

The Guardian reviews Homeschooled: A Memoir by Stefan Merrill Block (Hanover Square): “Homeschooled, then, isn’t just the story of an unorthodox education—although Block is suitably withering about a state system that allowed him to go off-radar for five years without once checking in. It is a compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for And Now, Back to You by B. K. Borison (Berkley; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week. 

BookRiot shares “11 Criminally Good Adaptations To Travel the World With” and highlights new historical fiction by Black authors. 

Irish authors and stars share their favorite books with Irish Times.

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan will make his literary debut with How To Not Die in Prison (S&S), due out June 23, Kirkus reports.

People previews new memoirs by Christina Applegate, Kyle McLaughlin, Tony Shaloub, and Liza Minelli. 

Star Tribune reveals six things about Olympic hockey star Quinn Hughes’s reading list with the Vancouver Public Library. 

LA Times has an interview with Michael Pollan about his new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review). 

ElectricLit talks with Asa Drake about her debut poetry collection, Maybe the Body: Poems (Tin House).  

Authors on Air

The NYT Book Review podcast talks with director Clint Bentley about adapting Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams.  

People shares first-look photos from Remarkably Bright Creatures, adapted from the novel by Shelby Van Pelt, due out on Netflix May 8. 

Mark Rylance and Shira Haas join the cast of the adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale. Deadline rounds up everything to know about the upcoming film. 

Aimee Lou Wood will star in a forthcoming series adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Variety reports. 

HBO Max has acquired the live-action series Song of the Samurai, drawn from the manga Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem by Umemura Shinya. It will premiere May 9. Variety has the news. 

Michael Lynton and Joshua L. Steiner, authors of From Mistakes to Meaning: Owning Your Past So It Doesn’t Own You (Avid Reader), visit GMA today, while Bunnie Xo,  Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic (Dey Street), appears on Kelly Clarkson.  

Lisa Rinna, You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It (Dey Street), drops by The View tomorrow. 

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