Topic: National Book Awards

Bestselling books the week of 5/10/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis: their Paris years

Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis may not have much else in common. But they'll always have Paris.

All Woman and Springtime

Although somewhat comparable to "Memoirs of a Geisha," this tale of North Korean women forced into the sex trade is a darker, crueler story.

Escape from Camp 14

This true story of life in a North Korean prison camp may be the most disturbing book that you will ever read.

Adrienne Rich: a voice for the marginalized

Adrienne Rich shaped her verse and prose into a passionate cry for justice.

Newbery, Caldecott winners: Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka take the top prizes

Award-winners Jack Gantos and Chris Raschka both wrote stories based on real-life incidents.

Walter Dean Myers chosen as new YA literature ambassador

The prolific author says he hopes to convey to students that reading is a necessity, not an option.

HBO makes great TV from books

More and more popular books are becoming HBO series. Here are some of the most well-known.

Amazon acquires children's book titles

Amazon gains more than 450 titles from company Marshall Cavendish, helping the online retailer to solidify its move into publishing.

4 excellent adventure books for young readers

4 excellent adventures for young readers

Blue Nights

Didion's devastating new memoir explores loss in all its forms, to powerful effect.

National Book Award winners include at least one upset victory

Although many expected popular novel "The Tiger's Wife" to win, Katrina saga "Salvage the Bones" took the 2011 National Book Award for fiction.

National Book Awards: the 2011 fiction nominees

Five novels vie tonight for the 2011 National Book Award title,

Tired of 'Twilight' clones? 5 young adult books to try instead

5 teen books refreshingly free of supernatural creatures and love triangles

National Book Award young adult nominees are back to five

Author Lauren Myracle is asked to withdraw by the National Book Foundation after a mistaken announcement.

5 finalists for the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature (with one title dropped)

It was apparently a mistake when they announced six titles this year instead of the usual five nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. But then, said Harold Augebraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation, "We decided that it was better to add a sixth one as an exception, because they're all good books." Which of these six finalists do you think will win the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature on Nov. 17?

UPDATE: One of the six finalists – "Shine" by Lauren Myracle – was removed from the list of 2011 nominees on Oct. 17.

5 non-fiction 2011 National Book Award finalists

5 books vie for the 2011 non-fiction National Book Award

5 National Book Award 2011 fiction finalists

The five books in the running for the 2011 National Book Award for fiction

Dreams of Significant Girls

Three teenage rebels live out an era of change in a Swiss boarding school.

Bestselling books the week of 9/15/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Still no great 9/11 novel?

Not yet, says our critic. But while we wait for the standout still to come, here are a few near misses.

Patti Smith: Just Kids autobiography to be a major motion picture

Patti Smith: The wordsmith of song and story adds ‘screenwriter’ to her credits.

Philip Levine: the “proletariat poet”

Philip Levine, a former Detroit factory worker and one of the most highly rated writers of his generation, is the new US Poet Laureate.

"Once Upon a River," by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Campbell's plucky heroine, Margo, carves out her own epic on the Stark and Kalamazoo rivers.

Write stuff: The workshop that shapes American literature

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, on its 75th anniversary, offers a window into the state of American letters.