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The Indies Choice Book Awards Are Back
The American Booksellers Association has revived the Indies Choice Book Awards, last seen at BookExpo in 2019, to ācelebrate the best Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Childrenās Picture Books, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Debut Adult and Debut Childrenās voted by indie booksellers.ā Titles that appeared on the ABAās Indie Next List,Ā Kidsā Indie Next List, and/orĀ Indies IntroduceĀ lists in 2025 are eligible. Voting is open now (participating booksellers only) through February 28th. Shortlists will be announced March 11 for voting through March 25, and the winners will be revealed April 8.
Here Comes Wuthering Heights
Emerald Fennellās Wuthering Heights premiered this week, and itās bound to have to have adaptation purists clutching their pearls. Vogueās Eileen Kelly, who attended the premiere, reports that the film āfeels less like a revival and more like a provocation: sharper, darker, and far more feral.ā She also notes that, āthere is something unhinged about watching an explicitly sexual film in a room full of strangers,ā soā¦thereās that. At this point, Iām more interested in the conversation about the film than in the film itself; however it turns out, BrontĆ«ās book (which I will go to my grave yelling is not a romance) will remain just fine.
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Shortlists for the 2026 Bram Stoker Awards
The Horror Writers Association has unveiled the shortlists for their annual Bram Stoker Awards, which are given āfor superior achievementā in works of horror first published in English. Nominees compete in 13 categoriesāincluding screenplay, a category unique to the Bram Stoker Awards in literary prizedomāfor a shot at the far-and-away coolest trophy among book awards. This yearās shortlisted titles include Stephen Graham Jonesās The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction edited by Becky Siegel Spratford, Kylie Lee Bakerās Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, and Ryan Coogler for Sinners (good luck to the rest of the nominees in the screenplay category!). Voting is open through February 15.
The Best Books at the Intersection of Memoir and Self-Help
If straightforward self-help is too preachy and proscriptive for you, you might like these memoirs instead.