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Awards, News & Book Clubs

Audiofile announces the winners of the Golden Voices narration awards: Vikas Adam, Kimberly Farr and Hillary Huber. Publishers Weekly has coverage. 

Dmitri Strotsev and Nadia Kandrusevich are named the 2025 Prix Voltaire laureates. Publishing Perspectives has details. 

Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine; LJ starred review) is the GMA June book club pick. Reid will appear on GMA today. 

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater (Viking; LJ starred review) is the B&N June pick. 

A Family Matter by Claire Lynch (Scribner) is the June Read with Jenna pick.

Publishing Perspectives recaps the latest Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey, which showed a 13-percent gain over 2023. PW also reports. 

Scholastic will integrate its trade publishing, book fairs, and book clubs, PW reports. 

Shelf Awareness rounds up last week’s top-selling self-published titles. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Flashlight by Susan Choi (Farrar): “For all its world-historical reach and social commitment, “Flashlight” is most profound when it, too, pays attention to emotionally knotty children and young adults.” LA Times also reviews: “[Choi] brings her impressive literary toolbox to bear here, and the novel ranks among her best work, alongside American Woman and the National Book Award laureate Trust Exercise.”   

NYT also reviews The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater (Viking; LJ starred review): “If the Avallon is something of a character in The Listeners, so is Stiefvater’s prose, which is as pungent as the sweetwater, with a snap that suggests the whimsy of a veteran storyteller”; What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything by Jessa Crispin (Pantheon): “Crispin is clearly sympathetic to men unmoored by changing norms and scornful of those who would dismiss the whole sex as toxic. Her tone is free-associative, irritable and rat-a-tat. Her book is a gas, in a dark-cloud-moving-quickly kind of way”; and I’ll Tell You When I’m Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader/S. & S.): “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home shows the power of even a single narrative to resist the deliberate erasure of a people and their homeland, the violence of colonization.”

Washington Post reviews Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall (Pamela Dorman): “It’s the type of ‘good enough’ mystery that’s pleasant to read and easy to forget. Any reader troubled by a lack of recall can be reassured that the inevitable TV adaptation of the novel will soon be streaming wherever British mysteries play on an infinity loop.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 26 new books for the week. 

NPR shares new titles for the week. 

T&C previews 46 must-read books of summer 2025.

Reactor has “Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition.”

People shares “8 Essential Books About the Healing Power of Nature.”

LA Times talks with Melissa Febos about her latest book, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (Knopf). 

Taylor Jenkins Reid discusses her new book, Atmosphere: A Love Story (Ballantine; LJ starred review), with USA Today. 

Molly Jong-Fast, How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir (Viking), examines family ties in an interview with Vogue. 

Lisa Pratta, False Claims: One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption (Morrow), writes about her secret career as a big pharma whistleblower in CrimeReads. 

At People, Glory Edim chats with Yrsa Daley-Ward about her new book, The Catch (Liveright: Norton), which is the first work in Edim’s Well-Read Black Girl Books series for Liveright. 

Slate appreciates Stephen King’s hero Holly Gibney, who appears in his latest book, Never Flinch (Scribner). 

Authors on Air

Todd S. Purdum talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about his new book, Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television (S. & S.; LJ starred review).

NPR has an interview with former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern about her new memoir, A Different Kind of Power (Crown). Ardern will also appear on CBS Mornings today.

Newt Gingrich, Trump’s Triumph: America’s Greatest Comeback (Center Street), will appear on CBS Mornings tomorrow.  

Vulture highlights new book-to-screen adaptations. 

Book Riot suggests seven page-to-screen adaptations. 

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