Posted on April 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice! 

  • Thriller author Lucy Foley is writing a new Miss Marple novel, which will come out in autumn 2026 — fifty years after Agatha Christie's final novel starring the detective came out (HarperCollins).

  • The Empire State Building is going green today — literally — to commemorate the centennial anniversary of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (TimeOut). 

  • Filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea shares five noteworthy passages from the diaries of writer Edna O’Brien, who explicitly told her she "must" read them for her documentary, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (The Guardian). 

  • The 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners were announced yesterday (award website). 

Categories: Today in Books

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