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Buzzy Books & News

Suad Aldarra wins the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for the memoir I Don’t Want To Talk About Home: A Migrant’s Search for Belonging (Penguin).

LJ kicks off its countdown to revealing the Best Books of 2024.

People shares “Best Books for Native American Heritage Month.”

Ebony suggests Langston Hughes and other Black authors to read this month.

Washington Post highlight this week’s bestselling books.

DK acquires UK-based digital publisher Canelo, Publishers Lunch reports. 

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Letters by Oliver Sacks, ed. by Kate Edgar (Knopf): “Letters is a testament to an extraordinary life, a life full of meaning and method. Sacks’s consistency, his dedication, his love of words, of knowledge, of storytelling, but especially of his patients establishes him as one of the great inspirational voices, thinkers and explorers of our time.”

LJ highlights November’s starred reviews.

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage (Dial), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

People shares “15 Cozy, Comforting, Stress-Free Books for When You Need an Escape from Reality.”

Seattle Times suggests four funny books. 

CBC highlights popular Canadian books of the week. 

CrimeReads shares “10 Great Mysteries in the Great Outdoors.”

ElectricLit has “8 Urgent Poetry Collections About Puerto Rican Resistance.”

Peter Ames Carlin discusses his book The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography (Doubleday) with LA Times.

The Rumpus talks with Jody Hobbs Hesler about her new novel, Without You Here (Flexible). 

Jenna Tang talks with ElectricLit about translating Lin Yi-Han’s novel Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (HarperVia). 

Authors on Air

Malcolm Gladwell discusses his book Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering (Little, Brown) on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

Deadline rounds up “everything we know so far” about Dune Prophecy, based on the books by Frank Herbert.

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