Book News Highlights: Releases and Awards (Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2024)

This is some important book news for September 29-October 5, 2024. Unfortunately all of the book news can’t be squeezed into one blog post but if there’s something you’d like to add please feel free to leave your news in the comments below!

New Releases for the week:

The 2024 National Book Awards Announced!

These are the fiction contenders for the national book awards. The official winner amongst all categories will be announced in November.

1. Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda– In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.
2. Martyr! by Kaveh by Akbar– Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
3. James by Percival Everett– “A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.”
4. All Fours by Miranda July– “An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.”

Upcoming Festivals and Events

Weekly Reading Wrap Up

These are the books I’ve finished, am in the process of reading, or DNF’d this week. Let me know in the comments what you think of these books. Finished books will have full blog post reviews on my home page and under my book reviews category.