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Percival Everett's *James* Wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Huckleberry Finn retelling, already the 2024 National Book Award winner, took the Pulitzer on May 5, 2025.
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The literary news file: prize longlists and results, newly found manuscripts, estate and copyright disputes, translation rights, announced reissues and bookshop openings or closures. Short, dated, sourced entries. For readers, booksellers and researchers keeping track of the year in books.
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The Original Recipe: How the New York Times Actually Builds Its Bestseller List
The list is not a sales chart but an editorial verdict, defended by a secret survey of reporting stores, a dagger for suspected bulk buying, and a century of authors testing where the discretion ends.
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Booker Prize 2026 Longlist Names Thirteen Titles
Thirteen books drawn from 163 submissions make the 2026 Booker Prize longlist, with Elizabeth Strout, Marlon James and past winner Douglas Stuart in contention.
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Women's Prize for Fiction Goes to Virginia Evans
The Correspondent, a debut novel in letters, wins the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction — its author's second major award of the season.
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Goes to Daniel Kraus
Angel Down, a World War I novel praised as a stylistic tour-de-force, wins the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Old Books, New Feed: How BookTok Revives the Backlist
BookTok has turned a decade-old novel like The Song of Achilles into a fresh bestseller — an explanation of why TikTok sells old books better than new ones.
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PEN/Faulkner Award Goes to Mahreen Sohail
Small Scale Sinners wins the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, with debut and short-story honors announced in the same release.
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National Book Critics Circle Names 2025 Winners
Han Kang takes the fiction prize for We Do Not Part as the National Book Critics Circle hands out its 2025 awards.