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Awards & News

The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction is announced, including titles by Aria Aber, Miranda July, Sanam Mahloudji, Elizabeth Strout, Yael van der Wouden, and Nussaibah Younis. The Guardian has coverage, as does The Bookseller.

Irish publisher Bullaun Press wins the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses with There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, tr. by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, The Guardian reports.

Caroline Criado-Perez wins the inaugural Unwin Award, The Bookseller reports.

NYPL will host the World Literature & Arts Festival, April 14–30, 2025.

James by Percival Everett (Doubleday; LJ starred review) is the winner of this year’s Tournament of Books in a championship matchup against Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf; LJ starred review).

Electric Lit’s March Gradness, a bracket-style competition for best campus novel, is in the semifinal round.

Reviews

NYT reviews Bad Nature by Ariel Courage (Holt): “As uproariously funny as a takedown of our deadly society can be, the novel is also an urgent call to exchange possession for belonging.”

Datebook reviews Big Chief by Jon Hickey (S. & S.): “What Jon Hickey has created with Big Chief is a masterclass on identity and what it feels like to be at peace within our skin.”

Washington Post reviews I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby): “There’s a weird tension in I See You’ve Called in Dead between the author’s willingness to call out sappy tropes and his desire to gorge on them, like a fierce nutritionist who raids the Oreos every night.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (Forever; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week.

LJ has the complete list of August 2025 Prepub Alert titles.

Washington Post shares 10 new books for the month.

Vanity Fair suggests 13 books to read in April.

NPR recommends 10 books for spring.

The Guardian shares this month’s best paperbacks.

Vulture selects the best books of 2025 so far.

BookRiot shares “10 Most Popular Books of March, According to Libby.”

NaNoWriMo is shutting down, reports LitHub.

BookRiot celebrates 100 years of The Great Gatsby.

Imani Erriu previews the forthcoming second book of her Heavenly Bodies series, Fallen Stars (Penguin Random House Canada), at USA Today.

People has a preview and cover reveal for Holly Black’s forthcoming Book of Night sequel, Thief of Night (Tor), due out September 23.

Arthur Sze, Into the Hush (Grand Canyon), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

People shares stories from the new book Fleetwood Mac All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Olivier Roubin & Romuald Ollivier (Black Dog & Levinthal).

Vogue talks with Jasmine Benjamin about her new photo book, City of Angels: A Book About L.A. Style (Damiani).

Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has died at the age of 74. Irish Times has an obituary. Shelf Awareness also has coverage.

Translator and author Tim Mohrhas dies at the age of 55. Publishers Weekly has a remembrance.

Actor Val Kilmer, who wrote the 2021 memoir I’m Your Huckleberry (S. & S.), has died at the age of 65. NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, will start filming this July and will be out in theaters in November 2026, Reactor reports.

Philippe Sands’s forthcoming book 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia (Knopf), will be adapted for the big screen, Deadline reports.

Caroline Darian, author of I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight (Sourcebooks), and Kate Swenson, Adrian Wood, and Carrie Cariello, authors of Autism Out Loud: Life with a Child on the Spectrum, from Diagnosis to Young Adulthood (Park Row), visit CBS Mornings.

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