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Every year, the American Library Association (ALA) recognizes the achievements of more than 200 individuals and institutions with an array of awards honoring their service to librarians and librarianship. Winners [...]

It was a scramble for the top in this year's 'books of the year' round-ups in the national and cultural magazines, with debutants and established literary and non-fiction voices vying [...]

And the winner is ... The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and School Library Journal 's inaugural BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards winners are: for first [...]

Dave Eggers is no stranger to literary awards. He's piled up numerous accolades over the years, beginning with his 2000 debut novel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which was [...]

Choice is excited to present the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles list. If it seems earlier than usual, that's because it is. We've officially moved the publication of the list into [...]

Brian Napack has stepped down as president and CEO of Wiley after six years in those roles. He has been Hi replaced on an interim basis by Matthew Kissner, who [...]

Sometimes there's nothing more boring than an awards show. The glitzy parade of who's the most talented, who's the prettiest, who's neither but is well-connected, or who has the greatest [...]

In its third year, the BookLife Prize--an annual writing contest sponsored by Publishers Weekly and BookLife--received more than 900 submissions . Of those, 30 books advanced to the semifinals. From [...]

Hachette leads the way at the British Book Awards, with 14 nominations for the trade awards, including two of its divisions, Orion and John Murray Press, up for Publisher of [...]

The 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, celebrated in this issue, were presented at Simmons College on September 30th. A one-day colloquium on the theme 'Out of the Box' was held [...]

Handicapping the Newbery and Caldecott awards is a favorite pastime (blood sport?) among aficionados of books for children and teens. We gather in hallways, on blogs, around water coolers, to [...]

Some of the most eagerly awaited announcements during the ALA Youth Media Awards press conference are the Coretta Scott King Awards. This year, with all the discussion about diversity, anticipation [...]

The 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, celebrated in this issue (see pages 20-37), were presented virtually throughout the month of October. Established in 1967, the BGHB Awards observe one criterion: [...]

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) announced the inaugural BCALA Children and Youth Literary Award winners. The awards, which are sponsored by SLJ, honor 'phenomenal works of [...]

I have just returned from two very exciting weeks visiting the main publishers in London where I was presented with their paperback wares through to next autumn. My house is [...]

Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X (Egmont UK/HarperTeen) is the winner of the 2019 Carnegie Medal. The winner of the 2019 Kate Greenaway Medal is Jackie Morris for The Lost Words [...]

If you got through the whole year without having to change into formal wear in the office restroom, here's a sampling of what you missed--other than the pigs in a [...]

Notice anything different this year? Yes, LJ has moved its Best Books list forward; from now on, the list will appear in the December issue of the year in question […]

It's the end of the year--almost. A time for reflection, before the resolutions of 2008 send us all scrambling once again. So what did we read this year that kept [...]

Sales of the big books were bigger than ever in 2005. New records were broken in non-fiction, booksellers saw the biggest launch day sales yet of a Harry Potter book, […]

The Quills Awards are coming--and our list of eligible titles is growing every day. For a complete, updated list of the nominated books, go to www.quillsliteracy.org DEBUT AUTHOR OF THE [...]

The Philosophy The Quills, an initiative sponsored by Reed Business Information (PW's parent company), is designed to be an industry-qualified 'consumers choice' awards program for books, honoring the current titles [...]

A list of publications in African and African American studies that were awarded the Outstanding Academic Books designation by the periodical 'Choice' for the years 1997 and 1998 is presented. The award is presented to the best and most important scholarly works reviewed by the periodical in the previous years. The titles are organized according to subject and include information such as the author, publisher, year published and number of pages.

April 2018 marks forty years since the first issue of VOYA Magazine was published. Reflecting on the foundation and history of the magazine reaffirms the purpose, mission, and values that [...]

Penguin Random House leads the nominations for The British Book Awards' Books of the Year and Trade categories, with the consumer publishing giant taking 26 places across both shortlists--18% of [...]