- 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.
- 2025 Jan 10
New Jersey Bookstore Expanding
Cranford Bookstore has announced plans to expand its storefront to facilitate a "community hub with story times, book clubs, writing groups, and workshops."
Virginia Loses a Bookstore
The Waynesboro Book-a-Million has announced it will close on January 18.
- 2025 Jan 09
New B&N Heads to Washington State
Barnes & Noble will open its newest bookstore in Bellevue, Wash., on January 15.
Romance Comes to Massachusetts
The romance-only bookstore Romance-Landia opened on January 4 in the small town of Centerville.
Pacific Northwest Book Award Winners
Anne de Marcken and Chris La Tray are among the winners of the 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards, presented by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.
- 2025 Jan 08
From School Library Journal
Librarians and Allies Must Act to Secure the Future of Libraries and Intellectual Freedom.
Detroit Bookstore to Close
Pages Bookshop in historic North Rosedale Park will close after 10 years in business following the retirement of owner Susan Murphy.
From Paste
The Most Anticipated YA Books of 2025.
From Book Riot
Your Guide to YA Book-to-Screen Adaptations 2025.
From School Library Journal
After a Whirlwind 2024, Amanda Jones Looks Ahead to the New Year.
From Variety
'Holes' TV Series Picked Up to Pilot by Disney+.
From People
Amanda Gorman's 'Girls on the Rise' Aims to Empower Kids as Well as 'the Village That Is Raising the Child.'
From MPR News
'More than just a haircut': Twin Cities teacher celebrates Black barbershops in new book.
From the New York Times
Teaming up on a children's book gave this 94-year-old and her friend a lifeline.
From People
Sutton Foster to Narrate New Pippi Longstocking Audiobooks: 'She's One of a Kind.'
From Book Riot
From Frybread to Aliens: 2025 YA Anthologies for Your TBR.
From Book Riot
Let It Snow! 10 Children's Books About Snow.
A New BAM Heads to Texas
The new Books-A-Million location in San Marcos will open on January 11 and is set to become the town's largest independent bookstore.
Sun Sets on North Carolina Bookstore
After three decades in operation, Quarter Moon Books, Gifts and Wine Bar in Topsail Beach shuttered on December 28.
DAG Foundation Launches Lit Prize
The inaugural DAG Prize for Literature, a new $20,000 award for emerging prose writers, will open to applications on February 1.
Austin Half-Price Location Shutters
Half-Price Books is closing its location on Parmer Lane in the Texas capital after 18 years. The chain operates four other locations in the city.
Utah's Newest Store Creates Community
Folklore Bookshop in Midway, cofounded by children's author Lindsay Leavitt Brown, aims to create an inclusive space for diverse and inclusive reading.
- 2025 Jan 07
Loyalty Bookstore Location to Move
The Washington, D.C., bookstore's Petworth location has announced plans to move "just around the corner" from its current storefront next month.
New Age Store Heads to Massachussetts
Serendipity Crystals & Bookshop will open in Taunton later this year.
- 2025 Jan 06
From the New York Times
The Hottest Trend in Publishing: Books You Can Judge by Their Cover.
From the BBC
'I shall treasure it': novelist Jacqueline Wilson was made Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 New Year's honours list.
From the New York Times
Jon Klassen on the Art of the Board Book.
Slow Sales Force Chicago Stores to Close
Semicolon Books, a Black-owned bookstore with two locations, closed its Magnificent Mile shop on Sunday. The West Town store will remain open through Independent Bookstore Day, April 27.
From Writer’s Digest
One Piece of Advice from 27 Middle Grade and Picture Book Authors in 2024.
From Literary Hub
The Most Anticipated Children's Books of 2025.
From the Nerd Daily
72 of the Most Anticipated YA Books of 2025.
From the Hollywood Reporter
How 'The Wild Robot' Got Its Heart.
Washington State Store to Move
Paper Boat Booksellers in West Seattle Junction announced that the store will move to a larger location and will reopen sometime in February.
Indiana Indie Reopens
Ink Drinkers Anonymous in Muncie reopened on January 4 after moving to a new location.
Virginia Store Relocates
Fountain Bookstore in Richmond has announced plans to move to a larger space across the street from its current location.
Pennsylvania Gets a New Indie
Novel Read Books opened in Watsontown over the weekend.
2025 Tournament of Books Shortlist
The 'Morning News' has announced the shortlisted books, brackets, and judges for its 21st annual Tournament of Books.
Kitchen Wins Comics Award
Denis Kitchen is the inaugural winner of the Boston Comic Arts Foundation Underground Visionary Award.
Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners
Luis Menand, Judith Thurman, and Gary Younge are among the winners of the 2025 Silvers-Dudley Prizes, awarded by the Robert B. Silvers Foundation.
Hadley B&N Staff Pickets
Booksellers at the Mass.–based Barnes & Noble location staged an informational picket on December 19, continuing their efforts for a contract after unionizing over a year ago.
Spotlight on Black-Owned Boston Store
JustBookish, opened by Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola in Dorchester in November, aims to "highlight works that challenge political paradigms."
- 2024 Dec 19
Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort
Poets & Writers has announced the nine writers selected for the 2025 fiction cohort of its publicity incubator, Get the Word Out.
- 2024 Dec 18
Oxbelly Retreat Apps Open
The 2025 Oxbelly Retreat, held from June 28 through July 6 in Costa Navarino, Greece, is now accepting applications for its fiction writers and screenwriters programs.
Celebrating Chicago Booksellers
The ‘Chicago Tribune’ has named Javier and Kristin Ramirez of Exile in Bookville as two of its Chicagoans of the Year.
- 2024 Dec 17
Virginia Bookstore to Close
A Thousand Stories in Herndon will close its doors on December 21.
Waterstones Hit with Ransom Attack
U.K. book retailer Waterstones is among hundreds of companies affected by a cyber-ransom attack on the software Blue Wonder.
Quimby’s Is Up for Sale
The beloved books and comics shop in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood is on the market.
EIBF Publishes Accessibility Report
RISE Bookselling, a project led by the European & International Booksellers Federation, has released its latest report, this time covering bookstores and accessibility.
- 2024 Dec 16
From School Library Journal
School Boards Tied Up by Book Bans Face Harassment, Struggle to Address Other Issues.
From the Greyhound
Maryland Book Bank Aims to Eliminate Book Deserts in Baltimore.
From Electric Literature
The Most Popular Banned Books in Florida.
From the Guardian
The Guardian's best children's and YA books of 2024.
From the Washington Post
Wicked is not a book for kids. A librarian offers five alternatives.
From 100 Scope Notes
The Winners of the 2024 Undies Case Cover Awards.
From Good Housekeeping
Why Is Miffy So Popular? Here's Why You're Suddenly Seeing Her Everywhere.
2024 First Novel Prize Winner
Joseph Earl Thomas won the Center for Fiction honor, which comes with a $15,000 cash prize, for ‘God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,’ published by Grand Central, at the Center’s annual awards benefit on December 10.
Florida Welcomes Its Newest Bookstore
Needful Books & Things has opened in St. Augustine.
Fashion House Opens Bookstore in U.K.
Alaïa, the Paris-based fashion house, has collaborated with Claire de Rouen to open a bookstore at its London flagship store.
- 2024 Dec 13
Tarazi Wins Mahfouz Medal
Lebanese writer Mohammed Tarazi is the winner of the 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel ‘Muted Microphone,’ the English translation of which published under the American University in Cairo’s fiction imprint, Hoopoe.
- 2024 Dec 12
Waterstones Shines Spotlight on Kid Lit
British bookstore chain Waterstones has announced the launch of its new Children's Book Festival, with the inaugural event set for February 2025.
Money Chronicles Winner
Principal Foundation has announced the 2024 winner and finalists of its Money Chronicles Short Story Contest, hosted in conjunction with the Center for Fiction and the publisher Short Édition.
Olson Wins Business Book of the Year
Parmy Olson’s ‘Supremacy’ is the winner of the £30,000 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award.
- 2024 Dec 11
From Variety
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goosebumps, Heartstopper, and The Spiderwick Chronicles nominated for Children's & Family Emmys.
From BookBrunch
British bookstore chain Waterstones has announced the launch of its new Children's Book Festival, with the inaugural event set for February 2025.
From the New York Times
By the Book: S.E. Hinton Reflects on Her Reading Life.
From Yahoo! Life
One Piece of Advice from 15 Young Adult Fiction Authors in 2024.
From Literary Hub
Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading.
From NPR
Dolly Parton's new children's book reveals what really matters to her at Christmas.
From Science Friday
2024's Best Science Books for Kids.
Kilbourne Wins Cave Canem Prize
Kilbourne's poetry collection 'Natural History,' which was selected by judge Natasha Trethewey, will be published by Graywolf Press in fall 2025.
- 2024 Dec 10
James Patterson’s Holiday Bonuses
Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Ala., and San Francisco’s City Lights Books are among the 600 booksellers receiving the $500 holiday bonuses annually distributed by the bestselling author.
Meet the BookLife Prize Finalists
The five finalists for this year’s BookLife Prize Fiction Contest discuss writing and creativity ahead of the winner announcement on December 16.
‘Philosopher Fish’ Wins Diagram Prize
Richard Adams Carey’s ‘The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire’ is the winner of the Diagram Prize for oddest book title, administered annually in the U.K. by the ‘Bookseller.’
Whiting CNF Grantees
The Whiting Foundation has announced the 10 recipients of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, with each grantee receiving $40,000 to complete a book-in-progress.
U.K. Bookstores Baffled By New E.U. Law
Bookstores in the U.K. are struggling to determine if they can continue to sell books into the E.U. after a new product safety law takes effect this week.
Will AI Save Manga from Pirates?
Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency is using artificial intelligence to search the web for illegal reproductions, per the Times of London.
How Good for Comics Is Hollywood?
The comics-to-screen pipeline often encourages comics publishers to prioritize seeking media adaptations over building strong publishing models, argues the Beat.
The Summer Hikaru Died On Screen
The horror manga series of the same name will soon see its anime adaptation hit Netflix, per Animation Xpress.
Dark Horse Teams with Studio Hermitage
The two companies will partner on Horror at Crane Mansion, a comics miniseries set in the world of the Our Brilliant Ruin tabletop role-playing game, reports Polygon.
Kodansha Print Club Launches
The new program from one of the U.S.’s largest manga companies will bring digital-first favorites to print, per Good E-reader.
Every Book to Screen Adaptation of 2024
Vulture wants to make sure you don’t miss anything before turning the page on this year.
- 2024 Dec 09
From the Associated Press
New Jersey becomes the latest state to prohibit bans on books in school and public libraries.
From Patch
Children's Bookstore Hooray for Books in Alexandria, Va., to Close After Nearly 17 Years.
From the ALA
YALSA Announces 2025 William C. Morris finalists.
From the New York Times
'No One Is Coming to Save Us': Illustrator Oliver Jeffers Reflects on 2024.
From 100 Scope Notes
2024 Children's Lit: The Year in Miscellanea.
New Store Comes to Westchester County
Bedford Books will open in Mount Pleasant, N.Y., on December 12.
Virginia Children's Bookstore to Close
Hooray for Books in Alexandria will close after nearly 17 years in business on December 31.
Watty Award Winners
The winners of Wattpad’s annual awards, the Wattys, have been announced.
From ARTnews
Sotheby's to Auction Original Artwork by Maurice Sendak.
- 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'