Oregon Book Award Finalists Are Announced | Book Pulse

The Oregon Book Award finalists are announced. The 2025 judges of the British Book Awards are announced, including Bonnie Garmus. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Freida McFadden’s The Crash. Mitch Albom announces a new novel publishing in October. Forthcoming memoirs by Bill Gates and Jeremy Renner gather buzz. Plus, adaptations of Elin Hilderbrand’s The Five Star Weekend and André Aciman’s Enigma Variations are in the works.

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Awards & News

Literary Arts announces the Oregon Book Award finalists and special awards recipients.

The British Book Awards has announced its 2025 judges, including Bonnie Garmus, Mary Portas, and Reeta Chakrabarti, The Bookseller reports.

FairyLoot and Transworld announce plans to launch a new fantasy publishing imprint this fall. Locus has details.

Publishers Weekly reports on 2024’s record setting performance at RBmedia and the double-digit percentage increase in digital checkouts on Overdrive.

Reviews

NYT reviews Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves by Alison Wood Brooks (Crown): “Parts of Talk feel designed not to help humans communicate but to train A.I.”

Slate reviews The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White (Bloomsbury): “The sweetest parts of White’s book, though, are his memories of the men he loved, only some of whom returned his devotion.”

Star Tribune reviews The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor (Europa): “A literary sequel worth its salt should satisfy two types of readers: those who read the first installment and those who didn’t. Joseph O’Connor’s new novel is one such book."

Datebook reviews Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma (Atlantic Monthly): “Francis-Sharma deftly captures the subtleties of racism at the business dinner with Matshediso, as well as the microaggressions black people face. She also neatly observes global north and south dynamics between Prudence and the South Africans she meets”; and Too Soon by Betty Shamieh (Avid Reader): “Shamieh’s debut is an astute, engaging portrayal of three generations of feisty, resilient women who are, each in their own way, forced to start over from the bottom and claw their way back to the top.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Crash by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen), the top holds title of the week.

CrimeReads highlights the best debut crime novels of the month.

PopSugar shares “16 Best Books About Music From the Last Decade.”

ElectricLit has “7 Smart and Hilarious Books that Brilliantly Satirize Race.”

Reactor suggests Rosemary’s Baby and Beyond: 5 Books That Will Make You Fear Pregnancy.”

Jonathan Fink, author of Don’t Do It, We Love You, My Heart: Poems (Dzanc), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

San Francisco Chronicle previews Jeremy Renner’s forthcoming memoir, My Next Breath (Flatiron), in which he recounts details from his harrowing Lake Tahoe snowplow accident.

People previews a new book, There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift by Kevin Evers (Harvard Business Review), due out April 8.

Time shares an excerpt from Catherine Coleman Flowers’s Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope (Spiegel & Grau).

Mitch Albom announces his forthcoming novel, Twice (Harper), due out October 7. Kirkus has coverage.

People talks with Bill Gates about his forthcoming memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings (Knopf), due out February 4. People also has an interview with Charmaine Wilkerson about her new book, Good Dirt (Ballantine).

Authors On Air

Imani Perry discusses her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People (Ecco), on NPR’s Fresh Air.

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Peter Beinart about his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf).

Peacock has greenlit a series adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s The Five-Star Weekend, headlined by Jennifer Garner, Deadline reports.

Jeremy Allen White will star in a Netflix limited series adaptation of André Aciman’s 2017 novel Enigma Variations, People reports.

T&C offers “A Reading List for the 2025 Oscar Best Picture Nominees.”

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