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Awards & News

Alyssa Cole, Essie Chambers, Joy-Ann Reid, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson are among authors nominated for NAACP Image Awards, Kirkus reports. Hollywood Reporter has a full list of nominees.

The longlist for the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction is announced. 

Publishing Perspectives reviews the AAP October StatShot, finding that the U.S. book market was up 8.3 percent.

January Book Club Picks & Previews

Oprah selects Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Penguin Life) for her book club, marking the first time she has picked the same book twice.

Reese Witherspoon’s new book club pick is The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan (Atria). It is also the Target book club pick.

The picks for both the Read with Jenna and Barnes & Noble book clubs is The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Viking: Pamela Dorman). 

GMA picks Homeseeking by Karissa Chen (Putnam).

Vulture previews the 30 most anticipated titles of 2025. 

Reviews

Washington Post reviews How To Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris (Morrow): “As Harris juggles this multilayered plot, she manages to excavate small yet profound emotional truths”; Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips (Farrar): “Another Man in the Street is an almost cellular imaging of the migrant consciousness, an exploration of the liminal suspension of the migrant self between nostalgia, loss and resignation”; and Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (Little, Brown): “His prose lies on the page with the intensity of a loosely coiled copperhead; you don’t even see the camouflaged danger until it strikes. He’s a master of incident and particularly of the ordinary line that’s transformed by his pacing and placement into something altogether devastating.”

Star Tribune reviews Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow (Grand Central): “Presumed Guilty has a lot to do with the specifics of a murder trial—particularly the decision whether to have Aaron testify on his own behalf—and Turow makes all of that convincing and gripping.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams (Dell), the top holds title of the week.

LJ released a new Prepub Alert with the complete list of June 2025 titles. 

CBC highlights Canadian bestsellers. 

The New Yorker examines the romantasy genre through the lens of a plot-theft case. Kirkus has more on the lawsuit.

People shares an excerpt from Jojo Moyes’s forthcoming novel, We All Live Here (Viking: Pamela Dorman), due out February 11.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Winter of Worship (Copper Canyon), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

People shares a new cover reveal for the paperback release of Renée Watson’s novel skin & bones (Little, Brown), due out May 6.

The Guardian offers a guide on where to start with the works of Zora Neale Hurston.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Hurston scholar Deborah G. Plant about how Zora Neale Hurston’s final novel, The Life of Herod the Great (Amistad), came to be found and posthumously published. 

Reba McEntire will star in and produce an adaptation of Fannie Flagg’s The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion (Random). Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) is attached to direct. Deadline has the story.

Eliza Kennedy’s forthcoming novel Lucky Night (Crown), due out in March, will be adapted for the stage, Deadline reports. 

Jamie Oliver, Simply Jamie: Fast & Simple Food (Flatiron), is on GMA today.

Tyler Moore, Tidy Up Your Life: Rethinking How To Organize, Declutter, and Make Space for What Matters Most (Rodale), is on Today.

Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About (Hay House), will appear on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

Alexander Smalls, The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa (Phaidon), visits with Sherri Shepherd.

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