- 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 Dec 06
An Event Space of One's Own
The bookstore A Room of One’s Own in Madison, Wis., has debuted a new event space to serve as its primary venue for the author talks and readings.
Last Bookstore Opens New Location
The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles is set to open a new location in the San Fernando Valley's Studio City neighborhood on December 12.
New Store Heads to Houston
Family-owned bookstore Good on Paper officially opened on November 1 in Texas's Houston Heights neighborhood.
Morris Wins Inaugural Nonfiction Prize
American writer Cherise Morris is the winner of Nigerian publisher Cassava Republic Press's first Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize.
- 2024 Dec 05
Goodreads 2024 Readers' Favorites
Emily Henry, TJ Klune, and Evan Friss are among the authors voted the 2024 Goodreads Readers' Favorites winners.
- 2024 Dec 04
From Literary Hub
Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025.
From the New York Times
Sandra Cisneros: 'A Year Among My Fellow Banned Writers.'
From Book Riot
Is BookTok Past Its Peak?
From People
These YA Authors Want to Change How We Talk About Body Size: 'We're Creating New Possibilities'
From Oprah Daily
The Best Children's Books on Grief.
From the Strategist
The Best Books to Gift to Big Kids.
Oates Wins Raymond Chandler Award
Joyce Carol Oates is the recipient of the 2024 Raymond Chandler Award, presented by Italy's annual Noir in Festival. Previous winners include Harlan Coben and Jonathan Lethem.
McNally Announces 20-Year Bestsellers
Sally Rooney, Patti Smith, and Frank Herbert are among the bestselling authors from McNally Jackson's bestseller lists, spanning two decades and multiple genres.
- 2024 Dec 03
Nero Award Shortlist
Patrick Ness and Zeinab Badawi are among the authors shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards for the U.K. and Ireland.
Binc Donor to Match Year-end Gifts
For the Book Industry Charitable Foundation’s yearend I Stand with Book and Comic Stores campaign, a Giving Tuesday match from an anonymous comic retailer will be available to all donors beginning today, with the retailer matching all gifts up to $10,000.
Chatterji Wins Wolfson Prize
Joya Chatterji’s ‘Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century’ has been named this year’s winner of the U.K.’s Wolfson History Prize.
- 2024 Dec 02
From Literary Hub
Authors Against Book Bans demand that publishers prepare for 2025.
From WACHFox
South Carolina board to decide fate of two books in heated book banning controversy.
From NPR
See the New York Public Library's Best Books of 2024 for Kids, Teens, and Adults.
From People
People Picks the Best Kids' Books to Gift in 2024.
From the New York Times
Quiz: Do You Know These Tween and Teen Books That Became Movies?
Bay Area Bookstore Reopens After Fire
East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, Calif., celebrated the grand opening of its new location on the same street as its former storefront, which burned to the ground in July.
Ohio Welcomes a New Bookstore
Author and book collector Grant Sabatier has opened Clintonville Books in the eponymous neighborhood in Columbus.
San Francisco Stores Impacted by Floods
Several bookstores in the Mission District are seeking support after a storm last week brought flooding across the city.
Ransom Wins Second Polari Prize
Jon Ransom has won his second Polari Prize, the UK and Ireland’s only dedicated LGBTQ literary award, in two years for his novel 'The Gallopers.'
Mahadevan Wins Joffe Books Prize
Rupa Mahadevan has won this year's Joffe Books Prize, which includes a two-book deal with U.K.-based publisher Joffe Books, for her psychological thriller 'The Goddess of Death.'
Beaton Wins Jan Michalski Prize
Kate Beaton's graphic novel 'Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands' won the Swiss literary prize for exceptional works of fiction or nonfiction published in any language.
- 2024 Nov 27
Queer Bookstore in Utah Crowdfunds
Mosaics Community Bookstore & Venue in Provo has launched an Indiegogo campaign to stay open after a tumultuous year.
Dos Passos Prize Finalists
Angie Cruz and Victor Lavalle are among the five finalists for the 2024 John Dos Passos Prize, awarded by Longwood University.
Utah LGBTQ+ Store Fights to Survive
Mosaics bookstore in Provo, home to the United Drag Alliance, has endured numerous threats and is raising $200,000 on Indiegogo to "stay open and operational."
Wisconsin's Newest Store Opens Saturday
Epilogue Books, a new store in Menomonee Falls, opens this Saturday, offering new and used books.
New Michigan Store Promises More Love
Pages and Grapes, a romance store in Wyoming, is celebrating its grand opening this Saturday.
Rhode Island Welcomes a New Store
Book Around, a used bookstore and writing community space, has opened in Pawtucket.
- 2024 Nov 26
A Big Win for Kate Beaton
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands has won this year’s Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, a Swiss prize for exceptional works of fiction or nonfiction published in any language.
RIP Ryan McCardle
The Fantagraphics book designer died this month from a rare form of bone cancer.
A High Price for Indie Comics
Can indie comics publishers survive rising prices? As single issues jump from $3.99 to $4.99, smaller publishers are having to get creative with their offerings, reports A.V. Club.
Comics X-odus
The denizens of what was once called Comics Twitter are headed to Bluesky, per the Beat.
Anime NYC Adds a Day
The three-day anime and manga festival will add a fourth day next year, per the Beat.
The Expanse of Production
The team behind the TV adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series is launching a multi-platform content company with a major development deal at Amazon MGM Studios.
Comics Against Hate
We Are Brooklyn, a project of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, collects comics by nonprofit professionals celebrating the borough’s diversity, per the JTA.
Burns’s Turn
The New York Times unpacks how Charles Burns reinvented the romance comic.
Black Mirror on the Page
Some of the show’s most memorable storylines will be retold in comics form next year, per Deadline.
Comics Vet Takes on a Sci-Fi Classic
Warner Bros will mount a new version of Forbidden Planet, to be written by Brian K. Vaughan, reports Deadline.
A New History of DC Films
Crown Publishing will publish a new book by Tatiana Siegel, Variety’s executive editor of film and media, on the history of the DC film franchise, per Variety.
Green Lantern’s Light
A statue of DC’s John Stewart has been erected in Burbank, Calif.
- 2024 Nov 25
From the Guardian
Furor sparked by Jamie Oliver children's book cultural appropriation engulfs more writers in U.K.
From the New York Times
Reading, with Extra Cheese: Remembering Pizza Hut's 'Book It!'
From NPR
Check out NPR's Best Books of 2024, including the editors' children's and YA selections.
From Book Riot
The Most Polarizing Children's Books Ever Published.
From NPR
In a Still Life painting nothing moves—but, wait! Was that a dragon?
From the New York Times
10 Picture Books That Help Kids (and Adults) Celebrate Gratitude.
From Strategist
Best Books to Gift to Little Kids 2024.
From Brightly
2024's Best Audiobooks for Kids and Teens.
Black-Owned L.A. Bookshop to Close
The Salt Eaters Bookshop in Inglewood has announced that it will close its storefront on December 14 and go virtual in 2025.
CALIBA's Golden Poppy Award Finalists
Percival Everett, Yulin Kuang, and Chuck Tingle are among the finalists in 14 categories for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's 2024 Golden Poppy Book Awards.
Bridge Book Award Winners
Aaron Hamburger and Millicent Marcus are among the winners of this year’s Bridge Book Awards for Italian and American fiction and nonfiction.
Boston Poet Opens Bookstore
JustBook-ish, a bookstore cofounded by Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola, has opened in Fields Corner.
Maryland Bookstores to Merge
A Likely Story Bookstore of Sykesville will merge with Park Books of Severna Park.
Illinois to Welcome a New Bookstore
Dandelion Bookshop will open in Oak Park next month.
- 2024 Nov 22
Brinkey Wins Maya Angelou Award
‘Witness’ by Jamel Brinkley is the winner of this year’s Maya Angelou Book Award, presented by the Kansas City Public Library in conjunction with a group of Missouri universities.
North Carolina Store to Shutter
After 30 years of operation, Quarter Moon Books & Gifts in Topsail Beach has announced that it will close its doors on December 28.
- 2024 Nov 20
From Deadline
Maddie Ziegler and Levi Miller to Star in Shiver Based on Maggie Stiefvater Bestseller.
From LateNighter.com
How Late-Night Stars Took Over the Children's Book Market.
From Reactor
Return to Cabeswater: Announcing the Graphic Novel of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys.
From Literary Hub
In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson's Characters.
From Vogue
Tove Jansson, Beloved Creator of the Moomins, Painted the World as She Wanted to See It.
From Mspmag.com
Children's author Eliza Wheeler's new project A Cozy Winter Day explores how to stay cozy in the cold.
From BuzzFeed
These 25 Classic Childhood Books Will Make You Yearn for Those Scholastic Book Fair Days.
From Book Riot
The Best Chapter Book Series for Kids Who Love Adventures.
Niland Wins William Hill Award
Conor Niland has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for 'The Racket,' becoming the second Irish winner since Paul Kimmage won for 'Rough Ride' in 1990.
Flanagan Wins Baillie Gifford Prize
Richard Flanagan has won the U.K.'s Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for his memoir 'Question 7,' but turned down the £50,000 prize over Baillie Gifford’s investments in fossil fuels.
- 2024 Nov 19
BookLife Prize Fiction Finalists
Sarah D'Stair and N.D. Jones are among the finalists chosen for the 2024 BookLife Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced in December.
'The Book of All Lives' Wins Cercador
This year's Cercador Prize, a bookseller-helmed award for literature in translation, goes to the genre-bending book by Spanish writer Agustín Fernández Mallo, translated by Thomas Busntead.
- 2024 Nov 18
From Forbes
The pervasive literacy crisis among school-age children.
From the Tennessean
Tennessee public school district removes 425 book titles to comply with state law on sex, violence.
From AL.com
In deep red Alabama, libraries gain trust of parents seeking all-access cards for children.
From The Nightly
How Jamie Oliver's First Nations storyline in children's novel Billy and the Epic Escape came unstuck.
From the New York Times
Alice in Moominland: Tove Jansson's illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are melancholy, complex, and occasionally scary.
From Oprah Daily
The Best Kids' Books on Race and Racism.
From Scary Mommy
Parents Share the Worst Children's Books They've Ever Read.
Brooklyn Children’s Comics Shop to Close
Greenpoint’s Hey Kids Comics! is shuttering its storefront at the end of the year after three years in business.
2024 LPC Award for Exemplary Service
The international Library Publishing Coalition has awarded Corinne Guimont, Virginia Tech’s associate director of publishing and digital scholarship for university libraries, the coalition's 2024 Award for Exemplary Service.
Virginia Gets a Romance Bookstore
Friends to Lovers is opening in Old Town Alexandria on November 14.
- 2024 Nov 15
Wright Wins Melbourne Prize
Alexis Wright has been awarded the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature for her novel 'Praiseworthy,' capping off an award season run that saw her win more than $200,000 in prize money.
B&N Opening in Utah
A new Barnes and Noble will open in Park City on November 20 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring author Jack Carr.
New Indie Heads to Pennsylvania
The Print Factory, which describes itself as an “antiracist, feminist, and queer-inclusive organization that supports the artistic and intellectual life of the local community,” is opening this weekend in Bellefonte.
- 2024 Nov 14
Community Bookstore Heads to Detroit
Twenty-six-year-old Detroiter Jerjuan Howard plans to open the Howard Family Bookstore in a long-abandoned building on the city's west side. The space will sell books and coffee, as well as host poetry nights and comic book workshops.
Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize Finalists
The Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press has announced the five finalists for the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
- 2024 Nov 13
From WUSF
Florida's Education Dept. releases a list of over 700 books removed in K–12 schools.
From Electric Literature
A Year of Giving Away Banned Books in Florida.
From the New York Times
How The Wild Robot Was Born in a Weedy Patch of Manhattan.
From the Atlantic
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she's cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read.
Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
Chelsea Bieker, Percival Everett, Xochitl Gonzalez, and Tommy Orange are among the 14 authors longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which comes with a $35,000 purse.
From Literary Hub
"She Is Not Me": What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself.
From BBC News
Giant Elf on the Shelf to hide out across Liverpool.
From the New York Times
I Gave My Son the Books I Loved. He Chose Heidi Instead.
From Kveller
The Small But Mighty Power of Jewish Board Books.
From Edutopia
10 Picture Books About Cooking That Promote Patience.
Georgia Welcomes a New Bookstore
Columbus Bound Bookshop in Columbus is holding a grand opening this Saturday.