The Horror Writ­ers Association (HWA) has announced their Sum­mer Scares Reading list for 2025.

Adult Books:

• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes, Eric LaRocca (Titan)
• Reprieve, James Han Mattson (Morrow)
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

Young Adult Books:

• Devils Unto Dust, Emma Berquist (Greenwillow)
• The Getaway, Lamar Giles (Scholastic)
• Find Him Where You Left Him Dead, Kristen

For 2024, the Financial Times featured several genre books across their best-of lists in various categories.

Amazon published its yearly array of lists to promote the best books of 2024, with editors’ selections in various categories. Works and categories of genre interest follow. Amazon’s top pick is followed by their list of other recommended works, alphabetized by author last name.

The Board of Directors of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released a statement on the freedom of expression for writers residing in conflict areas and poor living conditions:

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in education, SFWA is restricted from political campaign intervention in particular forms. At the same time, our mission is to inform, support, promote, defend, and advocate for writers of science fiction, fantasy, and related ...Read More

The New York Times published lists of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024 and the Best Horror of 2024, compiled by critics Amal El-Mohtar and Gabino Iglesias respectively.

El-Mohtar’s top ten picks are:

• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House)
• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• In Universes, Emet North (HarperCollins)
• The Melancholy of Untold History, Minsoo Kang (Morrow)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the

On December 10, 2024, the African Science Fiction Society (ASFS) released the following statement:

In light of further revelations in the case of the allegations made by Erin Cairns’ against ASFS member Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, the specific allegations of appropriation and non-disclosure have been investigated by a third party and no longer stand, and a public retraction has been made.

As an urgent response, we have now published a new ...Read More

The New York Times has published its list of Notable Books of 2024. Titles are selected by staff members of the New York Times Book Review.

The list includes titles of genre interest:

AudioFile magazine has published their picks for the best audiobooks of 2024 in categories including Science Fiction and Fantasy and Young Adult.

Music and audiobook streaming service Spotify has released a list of the most popular audiobooks on their platform for 2024.

The most popular audiobook genres by Spotify listeners in 2024 were science fiction and fantasy, with romance close behind. Many of the most popular titles this year were romantasy. The top audiobooks  were:

NPR has published a list of “Books We Love” in 2024, compiled by NPR journalists and associated critics. The full list of 350 books includes an extensive Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category, with numerous other works of interest on the list as a whole.

• The Bad Ones, Melissa Albert (Flatiron)
• Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution, S.K. Ali (Kokila)
• The

Auction house Christie’s has announced their “first sale dedicated to Science Fiction and Fantasy,” with bidding open from November 28, 2024 to December 12, 2024.

The auction “will explore the extraordinary history of the genres through the books, objects and artworks that continue to inspire new generations of readers and viewers.”

Highlights include The Dune Bible, “an extraordinary artefact from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic Dune project (estimate: £250,000-350,000);” an “exquisite ...Read More