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March 6, 2026
Story Image ALA Workers Initiate Union Drive
On March 2, employees of the Chicago-based American Library Association announced plans to form ALA Workers United, joining AFSCME Council 31 in Illinois. more
Story Image ‘Same Ingredients, Different Recipe’ in Proposed U.S. Book Ban
House Resolution 7661, introduced on February 24, would withhold federal funds from public classrooms and school libraries alleged to have “sexually oriented material” on their shelves. Right to read advocates interpret the bill as an effort to disparage and erase LGBTQ+ stories. more
Story Image ABA Condemns National Book Ban Effort
The American Booksellers Association is urging its members to contact their representatives about HR 7661, out of concern the bill will dissuade publishers from publishing LGBTQ+ books. more
Story Image PEN America, Publishers, Authors Join Together to Support Twin Cities Students
PEN America is doubling down on its support for young people in the Twin Cities by co-hosting with Just Us Books and Penguin Random House a virtual event on March 10 that will feature live readings by a group of children’s authors from the 2018 anthology We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, published by Just Us Books. more
Story Image OverDrive Taps Digital Strategy Expert Marc DeBevoise
The digital content provider—known for its library app Libby, school app Sora, and video app Kanopy—has found its next president in DeBevoise, who has held top roles at video platform Brightcove and online content network CBS Interactive. more
Story Image Steph Opitz Tapped to Head Consortium
Most recently director of bookstore partnerships for Bookshop.org, Opitz has been named director of publishing services at Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, effective April 6. She succeeds Julie Schaper, who is retiring. more
Story Image Ann Godoff, Editor of Award-Winning Books and Bestsellers, Dies at 76
The president and editor-in-chief of Penguin Press and former Random House publisher, who became one of publishing’s most accomplished editors over her 40-year career, died on February 24 from complications of bone cancer. Her authors included Ron Chernow, Michael Pollan, and Zadie Smith, and she most recently edited memoirs by Gisèle Pelicot and Gavin Newsom. more
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Story Image Starred Reviews Releasing This Week
Here’s a handy roundup of all the books that received starred reviews in PW that are hitting shelves this week. More
Story Image Tanya Bush Has Found What She’s Hungry For
The pastry chef embraces imperfection and plays with the boundaries of food writing in her hybrid cookbook-memoir Will This Make You Happy. more
Story Image Are You There, Judy?: PW Talks with Mark Oppenheimer
In Judy Blume: A Life, the biographer traces the life of an author whose candid novels about puberty, divorce, and other topics revolutionized literature for young people. more
Story Image Will Self’s Savage World
The author faced down cancer to write his spectacular new novel, a cutting satire of modern culture. more
Story Image Karan Mahajan on the Stories of Women's Lives That Inspired His Latest Novel
The National Book Award finalist recommends some of the memoirs and novels he read in preparation for writing ‘The Complex,’ a domestic drama mixed with a story of immigration and Indian political upheaval. more
Story Image Blast from the Past: PW Talks with Ernesto Cisneros
Longtime teacher and author Ernesto Cisneros spoke with PW about how watching his own parents age inspired his time-traveling middle grade novel, Queso, Just in Time. more
Story Image Author Naja Lund Aparico on Portraying Her Native Greenland as It Really Is
Greenlandic Inuk author Naja Lund Aparico breaks down the enduring myths surrounding Greenland and discusses how she aims to offer more authentic representation through her new picture book, Seasons by the Lake, illustrated by Alex Nees. more
Story Image HarperCollins Celebrates a Century of Children’s Publishing
As the division marks its centennial, PW asked Rich Thomas, SVP and executive director of publishing, what distinguishes HarperCollins Children’s Books among the ranks of children’s publishers, and what lies ahead. more
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Top 10 Bestsellers
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Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Author
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C J Box, Author
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Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic
Bunnie Xo, Author
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B K Borison, Author
5
Freida McFadden, Author
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Andy Weir, Author
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Green Eggs and Ham
Dr Seuss, Author
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Virginia Evans, Author
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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Dr Seuss, Author, Ring, Author
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