Posted on March 5, 2026 at 3:00 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!
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Learn about and watch a trailer for the Hulu series The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name (The Hollywood Reporter).
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You can read an excerpt of Lois Lowry's upcoming novel, Building 903, as well as learn about the special edition of The Giver; both books come out September 29 (People).
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Sarah J. Maas will release two more books in her Court of Thorns and Roses series to end a five-year drought; no titles or cover art are available, but we know that book six comes out October 27, and book seven comes out January 12 (The New York Times).
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The literary winners at the 57th NAACP Image Awards were Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author and Angie Thomas's Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi; the works were chosen as the outstanding literary work: fiction and outstanding literary work: youth/teens, respectively (Locus).
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A Family Matter — the debut novel of Claire Lynch — has won the Nero Gold Prize and its prize of £30,000 (about $40,200) (The Guardian).
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The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize — which awards $1,000 to an American woman, aged 30 or younger, with an outstanding book collection — is open for entries (Literary Hub).
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