Posted on June 9, 2026 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!
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Read an excerpt from The Sixth Nik by 2026 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus; the book comes out June 23 (Reactor).
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You can also read an excerpt of the just-released Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer (Literary Hub).
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We have several book prizes to announce: the 2026 Locus Award winners, the 61st annual Nebula Award winners, and the 2025 Bram Stoker Award winners.
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We also have a most-popular of 2026 so far list from Libby (Book Riot).
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Historian Gordon S. Wood, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution, died Sunday at age ninety-two (The New York Times).
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Jodi Picoult's thirtieth novel, Hollow Bones, will come out September 15 (Kirkus).
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Activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was held in ICE detention for more than three months without being charged and yet still faces deportation, will release a memoir, No Land To Stand On: Notes From Detention, on January 12 (Kirkus).
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