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Here are four new productions based on novels by Lauren Wiesberger, William Golding, Victor LaValle, and Tom Clancy.

Robert Crais won the best novel award for The Big Empty, his 20th book featuring Los Angeles detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called it a “potent and ...

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The American Library Association revealed its list of the 11 most frequently challenged or banned books of 2025. Patricia McCormick’s young-adult novel Sold, about a Nepalese girl who is sold into ...

The New York Times released a list of the best books of the year so far. “We’re a third of the way through 2026 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds o ...

The finalists for the Hugo Awards, given annually to outstanding works of science fiction, have been revealed. Nnedi Okorafor made the best novel shortlist for Death of the Author ...

Rebecca Yarros will return to straight-up romance in a novel coming later this year—no dragons in sight. Amazon imprint Montlake will publish the bestselling author’s Peculiar ...

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Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry is getting a film adaptation starring Richard Gere, Deadline reports. Halliday’s novel, published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster, is composed of two nov ...

Scarlett Johansson will executive-produce a TV adaptation of the bestselling 2002 novel.

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