Hilary Mantel has been awarded her second Booker Prize for her novel "Bring Up the Bodies."

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Mo Yan of China.  

Yesterday,  the semifinalists for the National Book Award were announced.  The winners will be honored at the National Book Award Ceremony in New York City on November 14, 2012.

Publishers Weekly has declared October 2 as The Best Book Day of 2012.  Find out why.

The National Book Foundation has just named this year's "5 under 35" fiction authors to watch. The 5 Under 35 program, now in its seventh year, honors five young fiction writers selected by past National Book Award Winners and Finalists.

This week Julia Child would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday, and a new biography of the inimitable Child has just been published to glowing reviews.  

Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
by Bob Spitz
Published to coincide with what would have been her 100th birthday, this biography of the iconic Julia Child captures another side of Julia's complex personality: her fierce diligence in mastering the science as well as the art of cooking through detailed experimentation and her concern to translate the preparation of complex French recipes for readers in America. (Annotation from BookLetters)

Readers everywhere mourn the loss of beloved author Maeve Binchy.   Read the tribute from the Irish Times.