- 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 24
Delaware Bookseller Wins Scholarship
Claire van den Broek from Huxley and Hiro Booksellers in Wilmington is the recipient of the sixth annual Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists, awarded by Binc.
Immigrant Writing Prize Finalists
Four finalists have been announced for this year’s Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant in fiction, now in its ninth year.
- 2024 Oct 23
From the Washington Post
Texas county reverses classification of Indigenous history book as fiction.
From Deadline
My Weird School Movie Based on Books by Dan Gutman Gets Nickelodeon Greenlight.
Perlin Wins British Academy Award
Ross Perlin’s ‘Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues’ is the winner of this year’s British Academy Book Prize.
From Deadline
Nick Offerman, Amy Sedaris, Nina Oyama, Jordin Sparks, Miranda Otto and Remy Hii to Voice The Pout-Pout Fish.
Lucashenko Sweeps Aussie Lit Prizes
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel ‘Edenglassie’ received back-to-back honors—the $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize and $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award—on the heels of winning five other literary awards.
From People
Junie B. Jones Arrives for a New Generation in Upcoming Graphic Novel Series.
From Brightly
Unpublished Dr. Seuss Sketch Inspires New Book: Gertrude Gish on a Dish on a Fish.
From the Guardian
Tove Jansson's Moomins notes to be published for first time.
From Print Mag
Letters Are Magic in Jessica Hische's New Children's Book.
From Creative Bloq
"It was a lot of fun seeing what kind of mischief emerged": How Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston made their new picture book.
From Main Line Today
Children's Book World in Haverford, Pa., Is a Haven for Young Readers.
From Book Riot
Spread the Light with These Five Diwali Children's Books.
Children’s Book World Turns 35
The children’s bookstore in Haverford, Pa., which is run by a mother-daughter team, has remained a refuge for young readers for more than three decades.
Donner Prize Open for Subs
Submissions for the 2024-25 Donner Prize, which recognizes the year’s best public policy book written by a Canadian, are now open.
Lambert Wins Naval Literature Prize
Nicholas Lambert’s ‘The Neptune Factor’ is the winner of the 2024 RADM Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.
B&N Expands California Footprint
Barnes & Noble has announced plans to open a second location in Fresno.
Pennsylvania Welcomes a New Store
Bookshelf Shenanigans has opened in Elizabethtown.
Holy City Preps for Busy Fall
Charleston, S.C., is blessed with many bookstores and will play host to many authors in the coming weeks, as well as a literary festival.
Bookstore Moonlights as Wedding Venue
A wedding at the Bookstore in the Oxford Exchange in Tampa went viral, prompting more requests from couples.
New Jersey Bookstore Is Wooing Readers
Kiss & Tale, a new romance bookstore in Collingswood has become a destination for romantasy fans.
Kentucky Town Welcomes First Store
Nadine West Book Company, which opened last week, is the only bookstore in the town of Glasgow.
- 2024 Oct 22
Spotlight on Yu & Me
Lucy Yu’s Chinatown bookstore is “redefining what a bookstore can be,” per ‘HuffPost.’
Phi Beta Kappa Award Winners
Gregg Hecimovich, Jeremy Eichler, and Emily Monosson are the winners of this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards.
Tennessee Book Award Winners
Monic Ductan, Rachel Louise Martin, and Denton Loving are the winners of the inaugural Tennessee Book Awards, presented by Humanities Tennessee and Tennessee State Library and Archives.
De Marcken Wins Le Guin Prize
Anne de Marcken has won the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over.’
Chambers Wins Discover Prize
Essie Chambers’s ‘Swift River’ is the winner of Barnes & Noble's 2024 Discover Prize for debut novels, voted on by B&N booksellers.
National Humanities Medals Awarded
President Joe Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals last night. Recipients included Nicolás Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press; literacy advocate and actor LeVar Burton; and authors such as Joy Harjo, Jon Meacham, Juan Felipe Herrera, Roz Chast, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.
- 2024 Oct 21
From the Guardian
Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library 's fiction section.
From MSNBC
Velshi Banned Book Club: Judy Blume and Jason Reynolds and the legacy of Forever….
From People
John Green to Publish New Nonfiction Book About Tuberculosis: 'Culmination of a Long Journey.'
From the Guardian
‘It's quite galling’: U.K. children's authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles.
From Harper’s Bazaar
A Florida Native Surveys the State's War on Books.
From Publishing Perspectives
Frankfurt Kids Conference: World Accessibility and Censorship.
From the Guardian
"As a middle-aged man, I would've saved loads on therapy if I'd read Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid."
From Brightly
Five Children's Books About Día de los Muertos.
Korean Fans Flock to Han's Bookstore
Onulbooks in Seoul, a small bookshop owned by newly minted Nobel laureate Han Kang, has drawn throngs of visitors following Han's win.
- 2024 Oct 18
Nye Wins Wallace Stevens Award
Naomi Shihab Nye is this year's winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $150,000 lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets.
Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist
Jamel Brinkely and Morgan Talty are among the five authors shortlisted for this year’s Maya Angelou Book Award, presented by the Kansas City Public Library, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and five other Missouri universities.
- 2024 Oct 17
Drahomán Prize Open for Subs
The annual award for translators from Ukrainian into other languages has announced an open call.
New Women’s Travel Writing Prize
The inaugural Ilse Schwepcke Prize, along with its German-language sister prize, will recognize the best English-language language travel book written by a woman.
Warwick Prize Longlist
Fifteen books—including novels by Han Kang, Clarice Lispector, and Jenny Erpenbeck—have been longlisted for Australia’s eighth annual Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
NEA Big Reads Opens Apps
Applications are open for 2025-2026 NEA Big Read grants to support community-wide reading programs under the new theme, “Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection.”
Kirkus Prize Winners
Percival Everett, Adam Higginbotham, and Kenneth M. Cadow are the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes.
- 2024 Oct 16
From the New York Times
8th Note Press—the publishing imprint of TikTok owner ByteDance—is teaming up with Zando to expand into print, with a focus on romance, romantasy, and YA.
From Book Riot
The State of Book Banning in the U.K.
From Book Riot
A South Carolina Public Library Won’t Buy New Books for Those Under 18.
From Fast Company
Why this children's book publisher isn't afraid of book bans.
From Publishing Perspectives
Kids First: Peter Warwick on Scholastic's Strategy for the Modern Era.
From Collider
The Wild Robot Nears Massive Global Box Office Milestone After Scoring Green Light for Sequel.
From Deadline
Jason Fuchs to Pen Feature Adaptation of Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet Graphic Novel Series for Netflix.
From Deadline
Pride Movie, Ibi Zoboi's Modern Take on Jane Austen, in Works at Netflix.
From Rocky Mountain PBS
Behind the scenes of Denver Art Museum's Maurice Sendak Wild Things exhibit.
From People
A Young Adult Edition of Gretchen Whitmer's Memoir True Gretch Is On Its Way.
From Elle Decor
The 'Strega Nona Fall' Kitchen Is the New TikTok Sensation That's Straight Out of a Storybook.
From Mental Floss
It Came from the Kid Lit Section: Remembering the Children's Horror Boom of the 1990s.
From Brightly
Ride On! 11 Enjoyable Books About Bicycles for Children.
From Brightly
Hilarious New Read-Alouds to Share with Kids.
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.