The Book News We Covered This Week

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week.

• Disability Rights Activist and Author Alice Wong Has Passed Away
• Audible Names Their 2025 Best Audiobooks of the Year
• The 2025 National Book Award Winners

The National Book Awards honor books written by U.S. authors for books published in the United States. The five categories include Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. Starting in 2013, the Foundation elected to present a longlist in each category, composed of ten titles and released in September. Those longlists are whittled down to a shortlist and shared in October, as a run-up to the awards. Finalists each take home $1,000, while the winner in each category received $10,000 and a bronze sculpture.

• The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
• The Trailer Is Here for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

This latest adaptation of the mega-popular franchise is based on the book of the same name, and follows a young Haymitch Abernathy, played by Joseph Zada. Haymitch has been chosen to participate in the 50th annual Hunger Games, along with nearly 50 other children, twice the number of tributes as usual.

• The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
• What To Know & How to Help Pass Three State-Level Anti-Book Ban Bills for 2026
• Authors Banned From Talking About Book Bans and More News for Libraries
• AI Updates, Nonfiction November Resources, and More Library News
• Charli XCX Unveils First Song for WUTHERING HEIGHTS Film and More Book News!

And for All Access members, here are all the interesting links we bookmarked that didn’t make the cut for full Today in Books coverage.