2020 Titles To Watch: Your guide to the year's most anticipated books
By Barbara Hoffert

Choosing 200 titles to represent an entire year’s worth of books is no easy task. Those here are suggested as the most important but also tell a story of where our interests lie as readers and a nation. Our newest residents, race relations, climate change, political tensions—all are issues reflected in 2020’s fiction and nonfiction.

Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt

 

Today in Book Pulse: Author Elizabeth Wurtzel Has Died, Jan. 8, 2020

 

In case you missed it:

• RITA Awards Are Canceled For 2020, Jan. 7, 2020
• Run Your Week: Big Books, Sure Bets, & Titles Making News, Jan. 6, 2020
• Page to Screen, Jan. 3, 2020
• New Bestsellers & January Best Lists, Jan. 2, 2020

Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert

• Police Procedurals, Private Investigators, & Dogs | Mystery Previews, Jul. 2020, Pt. 1
• Barbara’s Picks (Slaughter, Tremblay, & Fiction Debuters DeWitt & Waite), plus More Big Names, Up-and-Comers, Supernatural & Sociopolitical Thrills, & Suspense Too Close for Comfort: Thriller Previews, Jul. 2020, Pt. 1
• Barbara’s Picks (Nicholson Baker, Jordan Ritter Conn, William Deresiewicz, Carlos Lozada, Jamie Thompson), Plus More Current Affairs: Nonfiction Previews, Jul. 2020, Pt. 1
• Barbara’s Picks (Anonymous, Gail Caldwell, Natasha Trethewey), Plus More Life Stories: Memoir Previews, Jul. 2020, Pt. 1

2020 Page-to-Screen: Your guide to film and TV adaptations
By Neal Wyatt
More than 100 book adaptations will premiere on screens big and small in 2020, likely driving new interest in their source material. Returns, reboots, and comics rule the landscape, and bestsellers make their debuts.

Please See Us | Featured Review
By LJ
"Written in multiple first-person accounts, including the voices of several murdered women, this is a dark, gritty, and cathartic debut with well-developed characters and a compelling plot that will appeal to fans of Attica Locke, Lou Berney, and Jennifer Hillier."

Reading Through the Ages | Generational Reading Survey
By Amy Rea
When it comes to reading for pleasure, there are plenty of similarities across all age groups. But there are also enough variations in who is reading, how they read, and where they get books, to provide useful information about generational reading habits. LJ conducted a survey of 2,232 readers with at least 400 in each age group—Generation Z (16–22), Millennials (23–38), Generation X (39–54), Baby Boomers (55–73), and the Silent Generation (74–91)—to explore those differences.

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