AN IMMENSE WORLD was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “Ed Yong’s AN IMMENSE WORLD: HOW ANIMAL SENSES REVEAL THE HIDDEN REALMS AROUND US challenges readers to regard the world through different eyes—not to mention sensory hairs, electroreceptors, and lyriform organs. It is an exemplary work of science writing—prodigiously reported, sharply crafted, and packed with information. Like all the best works of nonfiction, AN IMMENSE WORLD is rigorously grounded in fact and, at the same time, invites us all to be open to the great mysteries of life.” AN IMMENSE WORLD was published by Random House on June 21, 2022.

THE LAST ANIMAL was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “With tremendous skill, Ramona Ausubel shows how a newly-single mother and her two teenage daughters survive while trying to help save the planet. Sharp and delightful, the novel explores how science works—and doesn’t work—and the sexism so pervasive that even those not working in the field understand the need to navigate its imposed limitations. THE LAST ANIMAL is a tour de force that takes readers around the world and asks if we should resurrect those we’ve lost, how to move on without them, and to which part of this globe we belong.” The award consists of a $10,000 prize, and the winners will be celebrated at a ceremony in March. THE LAST ANIMAL was published by Riverhead on April 18, 2023.

Edward Ashton’s novel MAL GOES TO WAR has been selected as a 2025 Audie Award finalist in the Science Fiction category. The Annual Audie Awards are the “premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” The winners will be announced at the 2025 Audies Gala in New York on March 4th. MAL GOES TO WAR was published by St. Martin’s Press on April 9, 2024.

AMERICAN WINGS by Sherri L. Smith has been nominated for a 56th NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens. The award aims to “continue its tradition of excellence, uplifting values that inspire equality, justice, and progressive change, and highlighting artists committed to these values.” AMERICAN WINGS was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers on January 16, 2024.

PEARL by Sherri L. Smith was featured on The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books’ “2024 Blue Ribbons” list. The graphic novel was published by Graphix on August 20, 2024.

Culture critic Jeremy Gordon’s debut novel, SEE FRIENDSHIP, is receiving fantastic press ahead of its release. A positive review from Kirkus reads: “Explored throughout are millennial culture, indie rock, and ‘the psychically fallow Bush years.’ Totally of their time, these characters spend a lot of time smoking weed pens, playing video games, and posting on social media. A frequently funny meditation on memory and loss.” Debutiful named it one of “The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2025,” with reviewer Adam Vitcavage praising: “Gordon gets humanity and writes subtle moments with gorgeous prose.” The novel was also listed on Bookshop.org’s “50 Preorder Picks: Books We Can’t Wait to Read.” Lastly, The Millions published an essay by Gordon titled “A Year in Reading.” Harper Perennial will publish the book on March 4, 2025.

Common’s latest book AND THEN WE RISE has been selected as a 2025 Audie Award finalist in the Business/Personal Development category. The Annual Audie Awards are the “premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” The winners will be announced at the 2025 Audies Gala in New York on March 4th. AND THEN WE RISE was published by HarperOne on January 23, 2024.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, NEVER SAY NEVER, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of January 26, 2025, appearing at #5 on the Hardcover Fiction list and #7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the book on January 7, 2025.

THE STOLEN QUEEN by Fiona Davis debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of January 26, 2025, appearing at #13 on the Hardcover Fiction list. Dutton published the book on January 7, 2025.

The National Society of Film Critics awarded Scott Eyman the Film Heritage Award on January 4th “for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with CHARLIE CHAPLIN VS. AMERICA: WHEN ART, SEX, AND POLITICS COLLIDED, a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.” Simon & Schuster published CHARLIE CHAPLIN VS AMERICA on October 31, 2023.