The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards and the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction are announced. Fantasy novelist James A. Moore has died at age 58, and Kate Banks, a children’s author who wrote about grief, has died at 64.
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners are announced, including books by Ned Blackhawk, Teju Cole, and Monica Youn, plus a lifetime achievement award for Maxine Hong Kingston. Paul Yoon wins the Story Prize for The Hive and the Honey. Shortlists for the Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Prizes, Australian Book Industry Awards, and Dinesh Allirajah Prize are announced. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline. Cynthia Erivo will narrate the audiobook of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Anguish and Anarchy. Hoopla launches a new BingePass featuring TV content from UK gardening icon Monty Don.
The Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist and the SERAPH winners are announced. Jimmy Fallon announces the return of his book club, with bracket-style voting. Apple TV+’s The Last Thing He Told Me will get a second season, based on a forthcoming sequel novel by Laura Dave, due out in 2025. Cillian Murphy will star in a film adaptation of Mark A Bradley’s Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. And sci-fi author Vernor Vinge has died at the age of 79.
The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by Kristen Perrin, Jonathan Haid, Heather Gudenkauf, and Dervla McTiernan. Six LibraryReads and four Indie Next picks publish this week. Svetlana Sterlin wins the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award. At NYT, Margaret Atwood explains the enduring appeal of Stephen King’s Carrie as it turns 50. And Babar heir and author Laurent de Brunhoff has died at the age of 98.
The National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced. Daniel Finkelstein wins the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival. Chris Newens’s Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals wins the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink Writers. Dreamscape’s audiobook program expands its ambit. Plus, Page to Screen.
The Horror Writers Association announces its Summer Scares reading list, including Jackal by Erin E. Adams, Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison, and This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. Ebru Ojen’s Lojman wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize for independent-press books. Ajibola Tolase wins the Cave Canem Prize fellowship for Black poets. The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize are announced. Primatologist and best-selling author Frans de Waal has died at 75.
The National Book Foundation announces its 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees: Antonia Angress, Maya Binyam, Zain Khalid, Tyriek White, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Jonathan Eig wins the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for King: A Life. Tom Crewe, The New Life, wins the Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle. Mary L. Trump will publish Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir. Karin Slaughter will adapt and executive-produce The Good Daughter for a Peacock series starring Jessica Biel.
The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award winners are announced, with Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America winning the Mark Lynton History Prize and Dashka Slater’s Accountable winning the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the first young adult book to achieve the honor. Finalists for the ITW Thriller Awards, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the Publishing Triangle Awards are announced. ALA president Emily Drabinski will receive the Torchbearer Award. Interviews arrive with Percival Everett, Natasha S. Alford, Rahiel Tesfamariam, Zibby Owens, Holly Black, and Téa Obreht. LJ’s Galley Guide for PLA 2024 is available now.
People’s book of the week, Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle, leads holds this week. Also getting buzz are titles by James Patterson and Nancy Allen, Percival Everett, Chris Bohjalian, and Steve Cavanagh. The 2024 Future Worlds Prize shortlist is announced. The April LibraryReads list arrives, featuring top pick The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. People highlights Dua Lipa’s book club. Christine Blasey Ford discusses her new memoir, One Way Back. Plus, author Jo Nesbø will adapt his Harry Hole series for Netflix.
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