Kate Merlene

4 days ago | libraryjournal.com | Kate Merlene

RECOMMENDED REVIEWS+ The Other Woman by Daniel Silva leads holds this week. Former President Obama has more summer reading. Downton Abbey is heading to the movies. TECHNOLOGY Automated systems are helping libraries move staff to patron-facing work, while manufacturers innovate new design features.

5 days ago | libraryjournal.com | Kate Merlene

Audiofile announces the winners of the Golden Voices Audiobook Narrator awards. Dmitri Strotsev and Nadia Kandrusevich are named the 2025 Prix Voltaire laureates. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere: A Love Story is the GMA June book club pick. Maggie Stiefvater’s The Listeners is the B&N pick. The annual Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey showed double-digit gains over 2023. Scholastic will integrate its trade publishing, book fairs, and book clubs.

6 days ago | libraryjournal.com | Kate Merlene

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere leads holds this week. Also in demand are titles by James Patterson and Bill Clinton, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Molly Jong-Fast, and Claire Lynch. People’s book of the week, A Family Matter by Claire Lynch, is also the June Read with Jenna pick. New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association announces its Book of the Year awards. Judy Blume is presented with the Women’s National Book Association Award.

2 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Kate Merlene

Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, tr. by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories) wins the International Booker Prize, marking the first time a story collection has won the award. NYT has a feature, and The Guardian has coverage. Sasha Vasilyuk wins the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury).

2 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Kate Merlene

Ann Cleeves reveals that her next Vera Stanhope book will be the last. Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore, and Brianna Wolfe win the Donner Prize for Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19. Publishers Lunch’s Fall/Winter Fiction Buzz Panel is available to watch now. NYT catches up with “The Dresden Files” series author Jim Butcher after 25 years and 14 million books sold.