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Awards & News

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners were announced at the LA Times Book Festival over the weekend. Winners included Jiaming Tang, Laura Beers, Jesse Katz, Jennine Capó Crucet, Andrea Freeman, Danielle Trussoni, Kelly Link, and more. 

Biographers International Organization (BIO) announces the Plutarch Award shortlist.

Finalists for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards for Emerging Writers are announced.

The Theakston Awards longlist is announced. 

The Bookseller launches the New Adult Book Prize.

Conduit Books, a new independent press, will focus on works by men, The Guardian reports. 

The Globe Pequot Publishing Group is purchasing Square One Publishers, Shelf Awareness reports.

Alliance has canceled an agreement to purchase Diamond Comics, Publishers Lunch reports. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo (Doubleday; LJ starred review): “In an evenhanded style that yields neither a woke polemic nor a sanitized past, he traces the lives of immigrants to a country that actively drew them in and then tried to push them out”; The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780 by Rick Atkinson (Crown; LJ starred review): “The Fate of the Day evokes dozens of battles, almost none of which marked a conclusive shift in the fortunes of Britain or the patriots, but Atkinson’s ability to work at this level of detail keeps his depictions fresh. This is great history”; Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember (Pantheon): “With a government that is rewriting history in real time, Medicine River stands as a testament to the truth”; and Ginseng Roots: A Memoir by Craig Thompson (Pantheon): “Ginseng Roots is a shaggy, imperfect, often beautiful almost-diary.”

Washington Post reviews Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White (Norton): “While he presents few new facts about Diana’s life—inevitably, given how exhaustively she was covered both before and after her death—White takes advantage of a quarter-century’s distance to present the cultural postmortem she deserves.”

NPR reviews The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood by Matthew Specktor (Ecco): “You see, for all of Specktor's verve, The Golden Hour tells a story of diminution, about the loss of youthful hopes, the corporatization of Hollywood, the movies' dwindling ability to feed our dreams, and the decline of the egalitarian America, imperfect but promising, that so many of us grew up with.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 24 new books for the week. 

Shelf Awareness shares last week’s top-selling self-published titles.

Reactor has “Five Extremely Grumpy Speculative Novels.”

OprahDaily suggests 15 books about motherhood.

Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field (Knopf Books for Young Readers), the third and final volume in “The Book of Dust” series, will publish in October. The Guardian has the story.

USA Today shares a clip from the audibook of Jeremy Renner’s new memoir, My Next Breath, read by the author (Macmillan Audio). 

BookTok favorite Ana Huang discusses her new book, King of Envy (Bloom), and “the big boom in romance publishing,” at Marie Claire. 

Vogue talks with journalist Sophie Gilbert about her book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Penguin Pr.).

In People, Suzanne Cope writes about researching her own history for her new book, Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (Dutton. 

Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures (Ecco; LJ starred review), takes the LitHub Questionnaire.

Authors on Air

Greg Berlanti will produce adaptations of Stillwater by Chip Zdarsky and Ramon K. Perez (Image Comics) and Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins (Abrams), Variety reports.  

Serena Kerrigan will launch the TV series Older Hotter Wiser on Peacock on May 19 and has signed a deal with Crown to release a book, Let’s Fcking Date, in 2026, Deadline reports.

Elle shares how to read up on the “Ransom Canyon” book universe.

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