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Awards & News

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction announces its longlist.

LJ selects the Best Media of 2024, including audiobooks, video features and documentaries.

Reese Witherspoon picks Isola by Allegra Goodman (Dial) for her February book club.

Shelf Awareness rounds up January’s top book club picks.

The Big Five U.S. publishers have joined authors to file suit against Idaho over book-removal language in House Bill (HB) 710, Publishing Perpectives reports. PW also has coverage.

PEN America releases "Banned Books List 2025."

Barnes & Noble will open 60 bookstores this year, citing a boost from TikTok, Salon reports.

South by Southwest launches a new imprint, SXSW Books, in partnership with Advantage Media.

Reviews

USA Today reviews This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer (Dutton), giving it four out of four stars: “In New York City, but perhaps in any place, there are moments between the hustle and bustle when you look up to the sky and breathe, grateful to just be for another day. Reading This is a Love Story feels a little like that.”

NYT reviews How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy by Julian Baggini (Pegasus): “Baggini’s research into how the world works turns out to be more interesting than his reflections on what it all means. But for eaters with an appetite for facts, there is much to enjoy”; and Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World, 1945–2000 by James Stourton (Pegasus): “Stripped of the art lover’s gaze, Stourton’s taut chapters and business brain probably make a clearer portrait of a traffic that, on paper, can care ironically little for looks.”

Slate reviews Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey (Pantheon): “As the British journalist Dorian Lynskey relates in his erudite, delightfully witty, and strangely cheering new book, Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, the fact that we can only ever speculate on the subject makes us speculate all the more frantically.”

Washington Post reviews Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (Knopf): “A svelte, finely constructed novel, it’s a story of self-sufficient loneliness that seems to defy the conventions of romantic comedy until it finally, gloriously gives in.”

The Guardian reviews Love in Exile by Shon Faye (FSG Originals): “By the time I put down this book I felt hopeful about men, and heterosexuality in general— which, considering I read it in the aftermath of a breakup, is no small thing.”

LJ shares February’s starred reviews.

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Deep End by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley), the top holds title of the week.

T&C shares the best books for February.

Reactor suggests “5 Underrated Black Speculative Books.”

ElectricLit has “7 Meta Books That Question the Boundaries of Storytelling.”

TJ Klune talks with People about his latest book, The Bones Beneath My Skin (Tor; LJ starred review).

Author Lindsay Jill Roth discusses her book, Romances & Practicalities: A Love Story (Maybe Yours!) in 250 Questions (Harper), and offers questions for deepening relationships, at Bustle.

Readers and writers share their favorite books in January at The Guardian.

BBC asks: “Can TikTok and diversity address historic low in reading?”

Corinna Vallianatos, Origin Stories: Stories (Graywolf), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

People highlights new memoirs, including Christie Brinkley’s Uptown Girl: A Memoir (Harper Influence), due out April 29; Christine Brown Woolley’s Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom (Gallery), due out September 16; and Debbie Gibson’s Eternally Electric: The Message in My Music (Gallery), due out September 9.

The audiobook for Suzanne Collins’s forthcoming “Hunger Games” novel, Sunrise on the Reaping (Scholastic Audio), will be narrated by Yellowstone actor Jefferson White. People has details.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Lara Marlowe about her new book, How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine (Melville House).

Hoopla Digital launches five new BingePasses in partnership with Cineverse.

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface (Morrow Paperbacks), visits GMA today.

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