Adventure Time

Chooseco, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, is bringing its iconic gamebook format to adults with a new imprint, launching next year. We report back from Shelves in the City, an annual gathering of nearly a hundred book influencers hosted by HarperCollins. And a new survey shows a growing gap between libraries that are holding off on adopting AI and those that actively use the technology. In other news, RFK Jr.’s latest financial disclosure revealed that the health secretary received $4 million in book advances from Skyhorse Publishing last year, as well as more than $200,000 in gifts to his wife via a political action group led by Skyhorse president and publisher Tony Lyons, per the New York Times. Netflix has landed rights to a drama series based on Kennedy Ryan’s Hoops romance novels in a competitive deal, Deadline reports. The Washington Post draws attention to a University of Chicago professor who published more than a dozen, likely AI-generated books this year. The judges of this year’s Booker Prize tell the BBC that they fiercely debated which titles to include on the six-book shortlist, which was revealed on Tuesday. And new nonfiction titles by American historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez and moral philosopher Susan Neiman make their debut on the IPC’s Top 40 bestseller list this week.