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, including a new Ishiguro novel, lots of adaptation news, the new landscape of public library censorship, and more.

• Simon & Schuster and The Black List Partner to Get Books Discovered for Adaptation
• The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
• Kazuo Ishiguro Wrote a WWII Spy Novel!

Due out March 9, 2027 (smash that preorder button), Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger  opens in London in 1938 as a man departing from a music hall performance has a chance meeting with an enigmatic woman. Jordan Pavlin, publisher and editor-in-chief of Knopf, describes the book as “a blend of spy fiction and the kind of wit P.G. Wodehouse was known for,” to which we say, “LET’S GOOOOOO.”

• Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship
• Join the 500 Billion Page Challenge

But here’s the bummer news: a decade ago, we were reading 500 billion pages a year. That’s a whopping 200 billion fewer pages we’re reading now than we were 10 years ago. One would hope that statistic would trend in the opposite direction—enter the 500 Billion Page Challenge.

• How One Media Company Is Fighting Manga’s Major Piracy Problem

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.