The weather’s heating up, and so are the news updates for library workers. I’ve got the best literary adaptation of the last 50 years, a celebrity who announced that they will not be writing a memoir, and Publisher’s Weekly‘s Best Books of Summer.
Let’s dive in.
New & Upcoming Titles
- Publisher’s Weekly already has their Summer Reading List posted! I was going to say “Way to jump the gun, PW,” but it has reached 80 degrees in Chicago-land already, so maybe this list isn’t too early.
- Dustin Hoffman is publishing a memoir this fall.
- Meanwhile, Meryl Streep announced that she is definitively not writing a memoir.
- Casey McQuiston hinted at a new Red, White, and Royal Blue project.
- Veronica Roth announced a new duology set in an alternate timeline to Divergent.
- New and upcoming romance retellings.
- The scariest horror novels of 2026.
Reader’s Advisory Resources
- How fan fiction went mainstream.
- How Freida McFadden’s twisty thrillers gripped millions of readers.
- What’s the status of “new adult” fiction?
- Older women in historical fiction.
- The best queer historical fiction of the century (so far).
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Adaptations In the News
- Publisher’s Weekly has a new column with adaptation news: “To Watch or Not to Watch.”
- Sandie Jones’ The Other Woman is getting a series adaptation.
- Warner Brothers is adapting Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower into a film.
- Ryan Coogler is executive producing a new TV adaptation of the Animorphs series.
- Here’s a casting update for Beach Read.
- Here’s a new trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping.
- Amazon MGM is developing a romcom series based on Meryl Wilsner’s Cleat Cute.
- Tom Hooper is adapting Millie Bobby Brown’s novel Nineteen Steps for Netflix.
- Get those midnight margaritas ready: there’s a new trailer for Practical Magic 2!
- LitHub names The Princess Bride as the best literary adaptation of the last 50 years. This would make a great display resource, but it would also be fun to have your patrons vote on their favorite adaptations too!
Numbers & Trends
- The top 20 queer sports romances on Libby.
- A new PEW survey finds that readers still prefer print books.
- 30% of people believe reading makes them better than other people.
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