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Awards & News

Oprah selects Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These (Grove; LJ starred review) as her 109th book club pick and launches a new podcast in partnership with Starbucks. The first episode of The Oprah Podcast features a conversation with Keegan. People has coverage. 

Jenna Bush Hager selects Mary Oliver’s Devotions (Penguin Bks.) for her December book club.

Joya Chatterji wins the Wolfson History Prize for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Yale University). 

The Atlantic releases The Atlantic 10: the books that made us think the most in 2024. 

The Guardian shares the best books of the year.

Bill Gates shares his holiday reading list. 

LitHub shares 38 favorite books from 2024. 

NYT columnists share the best crime fiction and thrillers of the year. 

Elle editors name their favorite books of the year. 

T&C shares the best books of 2024, including the best new royal books of the year.

The Millions’ A Year in Reading 2024 series features recommendations from Carvell Wallace and Becca Rothfeld. 

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Voyage Home by Pat Barker (Doubleday): “This is a novel about how women respond to unendurable trauma—the destruction of their homes, the murder of all their loved ones, the prospect of endless sexual violence. But what makes this so fresh and engaging is Barker’s ability to translate these ancient people into vernacular voices that dissolve the millennia separating us.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), the top holds title of the week.

Reactor suggests Young Adult SFF/H for the end of 2024.

Bruce Bond, The Dove of the Morning News: Poems (Univ. of Nevada), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

Heather Gay discusses her new book, Good Time Girl (Gallery), with LA Times. 

Mindy Kaling, creator of the Mindy’s Book Studio imprint, takes Elle’s “Shelf Life” literary questionnaire. 

PopSugar talks with fans of Sarah J. Maas and how her world has expanded beyond BookTok.

People shares details from comedian Matt Rife's new book, Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me (Gallery).

Emily Mester talks with Bustle about her new book, American Bulk: Essays on Excess (Norton), just in time for the influx of holiday gift guides. 

People previews and shares an excerpt from Ashley Flowers’s forthcoming book, The Missing Half, written with Alex Kiester (Bantam) and due out May 6. 

Authors on Air

T&C has the best book-to-screen adaptations of the year. 

Vulture recaps all the book adaptations of 2024. 

Netflix nabs film rights to Callie Hart’s fantasy romance Quicksilver (Forever). Deadline has the story. 

Alan Moore’s The Great When (Bloomsbury), will be adapted for television. Deadline reports.

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