- 2025 Jun 25
Vermont Bookstore Is On the Move
The Burlington location of Phoenix Books is moving to a new location on Church Street, the city's main shopping thoroughfare.
- 2024 Oct 16
QBD Book of the Year Shortlists
Australia’s largest locally owned and operated book retailer, QBD Books, has announced its shortlists for 2024 Book of the Year for fiction, nonfiction, and children’s.
Mass Book Award Winners
Elizabeth Graver and Crystal Maldonado are among the winners of the 24th annual Massachusetts Book Awards.
BIO Launches New Fellowship
The Biographers International Organization’s new Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship in Biography will award $25,000 each year to a doctoral student.
- 2024 Oct 15
U.K. Bookstores Draw Young People
Across the pond, brick-and-mortar bookstores have major cultural cachet among Gen Z.
Binyam Wins Bard Prize
Maya Binyam has received the Bard Fiction Prize for her first novel, ‘Hangman.’
Huacuja Alonso Wins Columbia UP Award
Isabel Huacuja Alonso’s ‘Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders’ is the winner of the 10th annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award.
McDermott Wins Mark Twain Award
‘Absolution’ by Alice McDermott is the winner of this year’s Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, an annual $25,000 prize presented by the Mark Twain House & Museum.
Harvey Awards Hall of Fame
The 2024 Harvey Awards Hall of Fame class has been announced, with Akira Toriyama and Sergio Aragones among the five inductees.
- 2024 Oct 11
BincTank Apps Open Monday
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation will accept applications for BincTank, its business incubator pilot program for BIPOC-owned bookstores, from October 13 to November 3.
Forward Prize Winners
Victoria Chang took home the top prize at the U.K.-based Forward Prizes for Poetry, along with three other winners.
Roy Splits PEN Prize with Abd El-Fattah
Arundhati Roy, winner of the 2024 English PEN Pinter Prize, has named Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah as this year’s Writer of Courage, splitting her award with him, as is customary.
- 2024 Oct 10
National Translation Award Shortlists
The six-book shortlists for the National Translation Awards for poetry and prose have been announced by the American Literary Translators Association.
Carson Wins Hadada Award
Anne Carson is the recipient of the 2025 Hadada Award for lifetime achievement, presented by the ‘Paris Review.’
Noah Named Indie Bookstore Ambassador
The American Booksellers Association has chosen Trevor Noah as its 2024-2025 Indie Bookstore Ambassador.
- 2024 Oct 09
From the New York Times
Thomas Rockwell, 91, Dies; Taught Children How to Eat Fried Worms.
From the New York Times
Children's Books About Elections That Might Inspire Grown-Ups, Too.
Binc, Sourcebooks Announce Matching Gift
Sourcebooks will match donations to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation up to $10,000 for bookstores, comics shops, and employees that have been affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Macmillan pledged a matching gift of the same amount last week for hurricane victims.
First Novel Prize Shortlist
Rita Bullwinkel and Morgan Talty are among the seven debut novelists shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.
From PBS American Masters
R.L. Stine: "I never planned to be scary."
PNBA Book Awards Shortlist
Anne de Marcken and Tessa Hulls are among the 12 authors Northwest-bsaed shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual Book Awards.
From Bleeding Cool
Mark Zuckerberg Used AI for Kids' Book Rather Than Hire an Artist.
From People
Man Behind the I Spy Series, Photographer Walter Wick, Reveals the Secrets to His Whimsical Scenes.
From Book Riot
When Disaster Strikes: Children's Books About Floods and Hurricanes.
From 100 Scope Notes
Halloween Is Coming: 31 New Books to Celebrate Spookytime.
New B&N Opens in South Carolina
The new Barnes & Noble location in Columbia is one of nine B&N stores set to open this month across the country.
Nye Wins Texas Writer Award
Naomi Shihab Nye is the winner of this year’s Texas Writer Award (formerly the Bookend Award), presented by the Texas Book Festival.
- 2024 Oct 08
First Scholastic UK Graphic Novel Awards
Mark Bradley, John Patrick Green, and Alice Oseman are the inaugural winners of Scholastic UK's Graphic Novel Awards, voted on by students in the U.K. and Ireland.
New Bookstore Comes to Texas
Neighbor Books has opened in downtown McKinney, just outside of Dallas.
Audies Deadline on Friday
Submissions for the 2025 Audies Awards are open through October 11.
The Great Fall 2024 Book Preview
Looking for your next read? The Millions has dozens of suggestions for you.
RIP Pierre Christin
The cocreator of Valerian et Laureline, a major figure in French comics, died on October 3, per Entrevue.fr.
The 2024 Sergio Aragonés Award Winner
Artist Juanjo Guarnido has been announced as the winner of this year’s Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art, per Down the Tubes.
Mafalda Heads Stateside
Quino’s classic Argentine comic strip will receive worldwide English release next year from Elsewhere Editions, in a translation from the Spanish by Frank Wynne, per the Beat.
Ridley Scott Enters the Comics World
The filmmaker’s Scott Free production company has partnered with Mechanical Cake on three original graphic novel series, per Deadline.
Charlamagne tha God...of Comics?
The Breakfast Club personality and entrepreneur nets a graphic novel deal, per Variety.
A New Comics Criticism Journal
The Comics Courier, a newspaper-format journal edited by Tiffany Babb and dedicated to in-depth comics criticism, is raising funds for a launch.
Harvey Kurtzman Week
The Comics Journal shares a week-long retrospective of the works of the comics legend.
Holy Hollywood, Batman!
The caped crusader, who debuted in 1939, is the first superhero to get a star on the Walk of Fame, joining Adam West, the actor who played him on TV, per the New York Times.
Is The Rings of Power...Popular?
The viewership numbers for Amazon’s oft-criticized Lord of the Rings spinoff series show a bigger hit than one might expect after reading the headlines, per the Beat.
The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)
Vulture showcases its favorite books in a booming genre.
- 2024 Oct 07
From the New York Times
Removing Books from Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There's a Quieter Way.
Desert Island Launches Fundraiser
Brooklyn's Desert Island Comics has launched a GoFundMe campaign to stave off the store's impending eviction.
From the Berkshire Eagle
Thomas Rockwell, author of How to Eat Fried Worms, dies at 91.
From the New York Times
Lore Segal, Mordant Novelist of Émigré Life, Dies at 96.
From the New York Times
At 96, Lore Segal approached death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.
From NPR
Author Jason Reynolds on his latest young adult novel and winning a MacArthur grant.
From ABC 7
Disney+'s Out of My Mind releases trailer ahead of World Cerebral Palsy Day.
From Variety
Anne Hathaway Confirms Return for Princess Diaries 3 with Director Adele Lim.
From 100 Scope Notes
The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children's Books of 2024.
Queer Bookstore Heads to Brooklyn
Traveling indie bookshop Hive Mind Books will open a permanent storefront in Bushwick later this month.
Buffalo Culinary Bookstore Turns One
Read It & Eat Bookshop, the "cookbooks-and-more store" in upstate New York, is celebrating its first anniversary next month.
- 2024 Oct 04
Endeavour Award Finalists
Travis Baldree, Isabel Cañas, and Seanan McGuire are among the finalists announced for the 2023 Endeavour Awards for authors residing in the Pacific Northwest.
McMurtry Bio Wins MacDonald Award
Tracy Daugherty has won the Bonney MacDonald Award for Outstanding Western Book from the Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A&M University for 'Larry McMurtry: A Life.'
Frank Wins Sophie Castille Award
Alexa Frank has won the Sophie Castille Award for Comics in Translation for the English translation of 'Offshore Lightning' by Saito Nazuna from the Japanese.
- 2024 Oct 03
Crisis at Diesel, A Bookstore
A book on Hamas prompted a protest at the Brentwood, Calif.–based indie bookstore last week, leaving its booksellers on edge.
Patterson's Bookstore Bonuses Return
James Patterson's holiday bookstore bonus programs is returning for 2024, with Patterson pledging $300,000 to be distributed in amounts of $500 to 600 booksellers from ABA member bookstores.
AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Winners
The American Institute of Graphic Arts has named its best designed books and book covers for 2023.
Sports Book of the Year Longlist
Harry Edward, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, and David Peace are among the authors longlisted for the 2024 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Cundill History Prize Finalists
Kathleen DuVal, Gary J. Bass, and Dylan C. Penningroth are the finalists for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University in Montreal.
- 2024 Oct 02
From Sierra Nevada Ally
How teens benefit from being able to read 'disturbing' books that some want to ban.
From Deseret News
Kids aren't reading books anymore. That explains a lot about our university campuses.
From Time
Heartbreaker Author Alice Oseman Is On the TIME100 NEXT 2024 List.
From Common Good
Now in her 90s, Katherine Paterson knows the questions people ask about her work. She's already asked them herself.
From the New York Times
In The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, Kate McKinnon 'wanted to create a mad scientist whose highest goal was to respect and protect nature.'
From Parade
Amazing Grapes Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Shares His Favorite Books.
From Screen Craft
Why The Wild Robot Screenwriter Starts at the Ending.
From People
Peek Inside The Hunger Games Illustrated Edition: 'It Felt a Little Daunting,' Says Artist Nico Delort.
From Variety
'The World of Gustavo' Kids' Books Is in Development for TV at Mercury Filmworks.
From Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Wild Robot is grand and gorgeous, with big feelings.
From the New York Times
R.L. Stine's Favorite Halloween Books Will Give Your Kids Goosebumps.
From Book Riot
Children's Books About Rocks That Absolutely Rock.
AI Publishing Platform Wins Prize
Veristage's AI platform for publishers, Insight, received Germany's DPR Digital Publishing Award for "outstanding achievements in digital publishing."
MacArthur Foundation Fellows
Jericho Brown, Ling Ma, and Jason Reynolds are among this year's MacArthur Fellows.
- 2024 Oct 01
Polari Prize Shortlists
William Hussey and Munroe Bergdorf are among the authors shortlisted for the U.K.-based Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature.
Cercador Prize Finalists
László Krasznahorkai and Adèle Rosenfeld are among the finalists announced for the 2024 Cercador Prize for translated literature, chosen by indie booksellers.
PRH, WNDB Writing Awards Open Subs
Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books have opened submissions for their 2025 Creative Writing Awards for high school seniors, which this year include the inaugural James Baldwin Award for Fiction.
Minnesota Welcomes New Bookstore
Story Line Books, a new bookstore in St. Paul's Union Depot, opened this past weekend.
Florida Romance Stores Shares the Love
Steamy Lit, a romance bookstore in Deerfield Beach, is run by a Navy vet and Pervian immigrant who enjoy handselling undermarketed titles.
Sanderson Mulls a Bookstore in Utah
Author Brandon Sanderson plans to "theoretically" open a bookstore in Pleasant Grove in a new development he's building called Dragonsteel Plaza.
- 2024 Sep 30
From the Washington Post
Jason Reynolds receives MacArthur genius grant.
From the Wrap
The Wild Robot Takes #1 Spot with $35 Million Box Office Opening.
From the Bookseller
UK Children's Conference 2024: Rollback on diverse storytelling leaves many feeling like 'a seasonal menu item.'
From the New York Times
A new play in London portrays Roald Dahl as a rounded character, while making no apology for his bigotry.
Bookstores Impacted by Hurricane Helene
'Shelf Awareness' has a long list of social media posts from bookstores impacted by Hurricane Helene, from North Carolina to Florida.
From People
Good Morning America Launches Young Adult Book Club with Sabaa Tahir's Heir.
From the Today Show
Kate McKinnon talks about her debut novel The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, the 50th season of SNL, and gets a surprise message from a teacher.
From CBS News
Lance Bass on embracing the Halloween spirit with his new children's book.
From Matter News
Jerry Craft creates the literary world he wishes he could have experienced.
From NPR
Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote We Are Free, You and Me with their daughter in mind.
From Literary Hub
Looking After the Books: Remembering Children's Author Joan Aiken.
From Condé Nast Traveler
33 Children's Travel Books for Bedtime Reading, Road Trips, Plane Rides, and More.
IACP Award Winners
Stacey Mei Yan Fong, Hetty Lui McKinnon, and Leah Koenig are among the winners of the 2024 International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards.
Int'l Comics Prize Winners
Artist Juanjo Guarnido and translator Alexa Frank are the winners of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art and the Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation, repsectively.
Hurston/Wright Winners, Finalists
The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation has announced its 2024 Merit Award honorees, as well as the finalists for the Legacy Awards for Black writers.
BPL Prize Winners
Kaveh Akbar's 'Martyr!' and Blair L.M. Kelley's 'Black Folk' are the winners of the 2024 Brooklyn Public Library Prizes for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.
Queer Bookseller in NYC Seeks Storefront
The Nonbinarian Book Bike, a Brooklyn-based mobile bookstore focused on LGBTQ+ stories and operated via bicycle, is crowdfunding to open a brick and mortar location with "exclusively queer inventory."
Aussie Bookseller Aims to Be More Aussie
Booktopia's new owner plans to invest millions in the company and emphasize the company's Australian heritage.
- 2024 Sep 27
IBPA Names 'Innovative Voices'
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the honorees for the second year of its Innovative Voices Program, which recognizes and supports publishers serving marginalized communities.
Academy of American Poets Prize Winners
Ariana Benson and Michelle Peñaloza are the winners of the Academy of American Poets' Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize and James Laughlin Award, respectively.
