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Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and classicist Anne Carson receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tayari Jones’s Kin and Pamela Colloff’s Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast win Kirkus Prizes. Reactor reports how Banned Books Week began. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with T. Geronimo Johnson and Denys Cowan.

The National Book Award finalists are announced. Oprah’s Book Club selects Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla for October. Generative AI discussion dominates the Frankfurt Book Fair. Vanity Fair does a deep dive into audiobook memoirs. Colleen Hoover shares her must-reads with Vogue. Plus, a Q&A with Alice Cooper, author of Devil on My Shoulder: A Memoir.

Stephen Graham Jones wins the Ignyte Award for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Read with Jenna chooses Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita for October, and People rounds up October book club selections from Service95, Natalie Portman, and GMA. Novelists Jeffrey Archer and Cheikh Hamidou Kane are remembered by NYT. Plus, interviews with Lydia Millet and Christy Carlson Romano.

The Witch by Freida McFadden leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles from Barbara Kingsolver, Rioghnach Robinson, Michael Lewis, Audrey Niffenegger, Brian Freeman, and Stephen King. Ply by Hernan Diaz is People’s pick of the week. ALA celebrates Banned Books Week. Plus profiles of Michael Douglas and East of Eden series creator Zoe Kazan.

Finalists for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Cundill History Prize and winners of the Colorado Book Awards are announced. Maria Reva’s Endling and Julian Brave NoiseCat’s We Survived the Night win top honors at the B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes. NYT talks to dozens of American librarians. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is expanding. Libro.fm and Silent Book Club have planned a read-in for Banned Books Week. Plus, interviews with Micaiah Johnson, Marlon James, Evan Gershkovich, Sharon Weinberger, and Ayad Akhtar.

The shortlist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize is announced. Finalists are announced for the Cercador Prize for literature in translation. The Book Industry Study Group and BookNet Canada release a report on AI use across North American publishing. Plus, new title bestsellers.

Meg Mason’s Sophie, Standing There is the October Reese’s Book Club pick; The Rumpus Book Club selects American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee. authors Layli Long Soldier, Maaza Mengiste, and Bryan Washington are named 2026 MacArthur fellows. Plus interviews with Denise Brown and Ayad Akhtar.

The longlist is announced for the Singapore Literature Prize. Min Jin Lee answers 23 questions for Electric Lit, a new Rob Lowe memoir is announced, and Scottish crime writer Peter May is remembered.

The French Illusion by John Grisham leads holds this week. Also in demand are new titles by Min Jin Lee, Deesha Philyaw, Rebecca Perry, Danielle Steel, Hernan Diaz, Malcolm Gladwell, and Ann Cleeves. People’s book of the week is American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee. Plus, profiles of Kyle MacLachlan, Sylvester Stallone, Kwame Onwuachi, Min Jin Lee, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa.