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The latest literary fiction book news. Every story lists its sources and links to our review when we have one.
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Dollhouse Pictures, led by Rose Byrne, has optioned Bri Lee's debut novel The Work, with Hannah Lehmann creating the series and Screen Australia backing development.
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Shelby Van Pelt drew a packed crowd in Mukilteo for Sno-Isle Reads Together, with more appearances in Oak Harbor and online. Here is what we know.
Sources: myedmondsnews.com, heraldnet.com
Nine months after its January 2026 release, Jennette McCurdy's debut novel Half His Age has reached #2 on the NYT bestseller list and #1 internationally.
Sources: yahoo.com, whereisthebuzz.com
Kathryn Stockett's The Calamity Club earns a Barnes & Noble 2026 Best Book of the Year finalist spot among 16 titles across fiction, nonfiction, and young readers.
Sources: bookriot.com, parade.com
Ian McEwan announced Between Books, his first-ever nonfiction collection, on Sept. 23, 2026 — timed to Atonement's 25th anniversary.
Sources: tribune.com.pk, apnews.com
Jack Thorne's first-ever TV adaptation of Golding's Lord of the Flies arrived on Netflix on May 4, 2026, after premiering on BBC in February.
Sources: theglobeandmail.com, deadline.com
AuthorPulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen headlines Duke's 2026 APSI keynote while promoting new nonfiction, keeping Nothing Ever Dies in the literary conversation.
Sources: community.duke.edu, vietnguyen.info
Pulitzer and National Book Award-winner Percival Everett is touring universities this fall, with stops at the University of St. Thomas and Ohio University to discuss James.
Sources: ohio.edu, news.stthomas.edu
Barbara Kingsolver's new novel Partita releases October 6, 2026 — her first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead, with major coverage from The New Yorker.
Sources: newyorker.com
Elizabeth Strout's eleventh novel, The Things We Never Say, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize just months after its May publication.
Sources: womansworld.com, npr.org
Coco Mellors reveals her third novel Grenade, arriving April 8, 2027, with a cover reveal and exclusive extract published across ELLE and Vogue Adria.
Sources: elle.com
Elizabeth Strout's May 2026 bestseller 'The Things We Never Say' is prompting critics and readers alike to revisit her Pulitzer-winning Olive Kitteridge.
Sources: abc.net.au, elizabethstrout.com
Apple TV+ has greenlit a dramedy inspired by Jennette McCurdy's memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, with Jennifer Aniston set to star and executive produce — arriving just as McCurdy's debut novel, Half His Age, hits shelves.
Sources: deadline.com, apple.com
King's sixth novel joins five other titles — four of them debuts — on the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, announced in April. The book has already collected the ABIA International Book of the Year and a National Book Critics Circle Award longlisting.
Sources: theguardian.com, ontheprize.co.uk
