Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews, also known as Kirkus Media, is a publication that focuses on book reviews in the United States. It was established in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus, who lived from 1893 to 1980. The magazine is based in New York City.

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Lindsay Lohan To Star in ‘Count My Lies’ Series

5 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Lindsay Lohan will star in a Hulu series adaptation of Sophie Stava’s Count My Lies, Deadline reports. Stava’s thriller, published last month by Gallery Books, follows Sloane Caraway, a compulsive liar who becomes a nanny for a wealthy couple, Jay and Violet Lockhart, after falsely claiming to be a nurse. A critic for Kirkus praised the book as “a page-turning thrill ride of a story from a debut novelist.”Stava announced news of the series on Instagram, writing, “I’m freaking out.
New Book by Dolly Parton Coming This Fall

5 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Dolly Parton will tell the story of her life as a performer in a new book, People magazine reports. Ten Speed will publish the country music legend’s Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, co-written with Tom Roland, in the fall.
Winners of the Publishing Triangle Awards Revealed

5 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

The Publishing Triangle announced the winners of its awards, given annually to outstanding works of LGBTQ+ literature. Jiaming Tang’s Cinema Love won two prizes: the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
McSweeney’s Reveals Winner of Short Fiction Prize

6 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Akhim Alexis has won McSweeney’s 2025 Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the publisher announced in a news release. Alexis won the prize for his short story “My Son’s Name is Not Cassava,” which the press will publish in November in McSweeney’s Quarterly 80. The issue will also feature stories from the two runners-up: “Composure” by Colin Heasley and “Ashes” by Olga Lexell.
PEN World Voices Festival Reveals Author Lineup

6 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

The PEN World Voices Festival unveiled the lineup for its 2025 event, with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jennifer Egan, and Jodi Picoult among the authors scheduled to appear in New York and Los Angeles this spring. This year’s festival will take place from April 30 to May 3.
Memoir by Priscilla Presley Coming This Fall

6 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley will tell the story of life after her divorce from singer Elvis Presley in a new memoir. Grand Central will publish the actor’s Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis, co-written with Mary Jane Ross, in the fall, the press announced in a news release. The title of the book shares its name with an Italian song that Elvis Presley memorably performed live in Las Vegas. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley first met Elvis in West Germany when she was 14 and he was 24.
RABBIT RABBIT | Kirkus Reviews

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Jack Cheng |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno

Riveting, inspiring, and sometimes hilarious. If you made a recording to be heard by the aliens who found the iPod, what would you record? For 11-year-old Alex Petroski, it's easy. He records everything. He records the story of how he travels to New Mexico to a rocket festival with his dog, Carl Sagan, and his rocket. He records finding out that a man with the same name and birthday as his dead father has an address in Las Vegas.
STRANGERS IN TIME

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | David Baldacci

Hope, excitement, and tragedy will keep rapt readers reaching for their tissues. Three strangers become friends amid the Nazi bombing of London. In 1944, fierce aerial fighting rages over London as the bombs and rockets continue killing and maiming English civilians. A 13-year-old “East End bloke” navigates the rubble and looks for things to steal. He always wishes for inclement weather so the Jerries won’t bomb them.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Eleanor Pilcher |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach

Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war.
THE DEATH OF US | Kirkus Reviews

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Abigail Dean |Alison Espach |Kristin Hannah

Uneven but fitfully amusing. Awards & Accolades Likes 24 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard.