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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards are announced.

Shortlists for the Nero Book Awards are revealed; The Guardian has coverage.

NYT releases its selections for the year’s best graphic novels and SFF.

CrimeReads shares its picks for the best psychological thrillers of 2024.

The Internet Archive has decided not to appeal its copyright case to the Supreme Court, Publishers Weekly reports. The Bookseller and Publishing Perspectives also have coverage.

Page to Screen

December 6

Nightbitch, based on the novel by Rachel Yoder. Searchlight. Reviews | Trailer

The Order, based on The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America’s Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. Prime Video. Reviews | Trailer

The Return, based on Homer’s Odyssey. Bleecker Street. Reviews | Trailer

Unstoppable, based on Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated; How I Became a Champion by Anthony Robles. Amazon MGM. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…: Essays by David Graeber (Farrar): “But close reading (and, arguably, nit-picking) is what critics do; Graeber was more interested in the varieties of human experience, and how bold declarations of counterintuitive ideas could open up new horizons of possibility”; and The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder (St. Martin’s): “Putnam Jacobi’s life story has everything: ambition, partnership, triumph and loss. What’s missing, to the chagrin of the biographer, is the kind of archival depth—journals, letters, diaries—that allows access to unfiltered emotion, and makes a subject’s passions and peculiarities jump off the page.”

Washington Post reviews On the Calculation of Volume, Books 1 and 2 by Solvej Balle, tr. by Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions): “If Samuel Beckett had written Groundhog Day, it might read something like On the Calculation of Volume…. Written in intermittent diary-like entries of varying length, [it] is at once scrupulously realistic and intriguingly speculative”; and five new editions of classic mysteries or short stories: The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr (American Mystery Classics), The Will o’ the Wisp Mystery by Edward D. Hoch (Crippen & Landru), Sudden Fear by Edna Sherry (Stark House), The Mysterious Mr. Badman by W.F. Harvey (Poisoned Pen), and Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop, ed. by Otto Penzler (Mysterious Pr.).

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

LitHub talks to writer Jacqueline Woodson about “navigating book bans and staying resilient in 2025.”

NYT writes about a 1980 student-led uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, that Nobel Prize winner Han Kang explored in her 2017 novel Human Acts.

NYT has “six new books we recommend this week.”

Kirkus shares three indie books that are “urgent dispatches from U.S. prisons.”

Reactor’s “Backlist Bonanza” gathers “five underrated books that take you down the witches road.”

Irvine Welsh is writing Men in Love, a sequel to his 1993 cult classic novel Trainspotting, The Guardian reports.

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast speaks with Carvell Wallace, author of Another Word for Love: A Memoir (MCD).

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Caroline Crampton, author of A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria (Ecco).

On the Audiofile Podcast, Julia Whelan talks about narrating the audiobook of Kristin Hannah’s The Women (Macmillan Audio).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will talk to Werner Herzog, author of Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir (Penguin Bks.), and Science Friday will speak with Dava Sobel, author of The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science (Atlantic Monthly).

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