Book News
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain leads holds this week. The National Book Critics Circle announce their finalists for the 2019 award year. The Oscar nominations are out. Joker gets plenty of chances to win. The Critics’ Choice Awards were awarded last night. Little Women, Joker, and The Irishman have wins. Betsy Bird considers 2019 in children’s literature in SLJ. NYPL counts its 10 most checked-out books in history.
The president and the executive director of the RWA have resigned. The NAACP Image Award nominations are out. Stephen King and Jane Austen return to the small screen this week. Plus Nancy Drew is on the case and Just Mercy opens in wide release.
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid leads five new books onto the bestseller lists. Trouble continues to mount for RWA now that Harlequin, Avon, and more publishers have pulled out of its annual conference this year. The GLAAD Media Awards nominations are out. Locke and Key gets a trailer.
An anonymous twitterer (Duchess Goldblatt), two Pulitzer Prize winners, struggling parents, struggling children, an African American woman who acts as an emergency room physician—all have stories to tell.
Baker probes the Freedom of Information Act, Conn offers a tale of two Syrian brothers, Deresiewicz assays the artist’s life in the 21st century, Lozado reads 150 books about Trump, and Thompson considers the issues surrounding the 2016 Dallas police shooting. Plus more public issues of importance.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of Prozac Nation, has died. A new flurry of best of 2020 lists appear. Zora creates The Zora Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made gets a trailer.
Hailing from Australia, Darcy Coates is the author of a number of USA Today best-selling horror ebooks, but her work has not been easily accessible to libraries—until now.
The RWA cancels the RITA awards for 2020. Lee Child will be a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize. LJ posts its findings from the Generational Reading Survey. There are updates to the page-to-screen calendar. The Witcher keeps getting buzz and The New Mutants gets a trailer.
Jasper Dewitt’s debut about a terrifying mental patient was an optioned film idea before it became a book, Karin Slaughter brings back Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent, Paul Tremblay gives us chills driven by a rabies-like epidemic, and Jen Waite's first thriller follows up her memoir of a manipulative husband. Note that supernatural thrills are becoming a standard on Prepub lists.