Barack Obama announced his 2024 Summer Reading List, saying, “I’ve read some great books over the last few months and wanted to share some of my favorites.” Works and authors of genre interest include The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader), James by Percival Everett (Doubleday), The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead), and Beautiful Days by Zach Williams (Doubleday).

The ten-title shortlist of the 2024 YA Book Prize includes a number of titles of genre interest, including:

The YA Book Prize is awarded to a YA title written by an author living in the UK or Ireland. “The shortlist is selected by a team at The ...Read More

The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour has announced its winner and runner up:

The Huntington Library, which hosts the Octavia E. Butler Collection, has announced Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler, a “two-day conference [exploring] Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.”

The event will be held from May 23-24, 2024 at The Huntington in San Marino CA.

For more information, including the complete conference schedule, ...Read More

The New York Public Library announced its five Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2024, including House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Flatiron Books), Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon), and Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books).

The $10,000 prize is awarded “each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories” by a panel of ...Read More

The 13-title longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced, and includes The Silver Bone, Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (MacLehose) and Crooked Plow, Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz (Verso)

The award is given “every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.” The £50,000 prize is divided equally among the author and translator(s). ...Read More

The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) has selected the late author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) as this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in the SF field. Butler was a major figure in the field who won three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, among many other honors.

The award, named for Forrest J Ackerman and given annually since 1966, was presented ...Read More

The 2021 Ladies of Horror Readers’ Choice results have been announced. The top ten winners are:

• “Become a Flute, Become a Spy Glass, Become a Knife”, Elou Carroll (Grimm & Dread: a Crow’s Twist on Classic Tales)
• Earthly Bodies, Susan Earlam (Speleorex)
• Till We Become Monsters, Amanda Headlee (Woodhall)
• The Night Library of Sternendach, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
• Bad Witch Burning, Jessica Lewis (Delacorte)
• The

The An Post Irish Book Awards have announced their 2021 shortlist, featuring writing across 20 categories. The awards “celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Each year it brings together a vast community passionate about books – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise the very best of Irish writing talent.”

Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

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HarperCollins has announced reorganization plans for the recently acquired Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They will have four imprints, which will see ‘‘see increased focus and investment, with the majority of acquiring editors remaining in place.’’ Mariner will publish most of the adult books, and will absorb Custom House. The Clarion and Versify imprints will retain their names as part of the new Clarion Group. Graphic novels from the Etch imprint will ...Read More