We've added three more titles to our Book Club Corner:  Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  If you would like to reserve any of these titles for a book group discussion contact Karen Kazzi, Inter-Library Loans, 203-438-2282 x 1011 or kkazzi@ridgefieldlibrary.org.

Louise Penny has done it again.  For the fifth time, she has won the Agatha Award for the best novel of the year for an entry her Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series.  The latest entry, The Beautiful Mystery, takes this year's prize.

Dennis Lehane's Live by Night takes home this year's Edgar Award for Best Novel and Chris Pavone's   The Expat has been selected as Best First Novel.  Here is the complete list of winners and nominees.

The award-winners keep coming.   Here are the picks for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced on April 19th.  In the Fiction category, Bill Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, which also won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award, took the honors.

For all the fans of Willa Cather's works, here is an interesting article entitled "10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Willa Cather" that appeared in Publishers Weekly. It discusses some of the revelations that come to light in the newly released book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Strout.

While it may seem early to pick the best books of the year, BookPage has selected 20 titles as the best of 2013 so far.   Included in the list is Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, which is one of my personal favorites from this year's new releases (Adult Services Librarian Dorothy Pawlowski),
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Every ten years, Granta, the London-based literary magazine, selects a list of 20 authors who they cite as "The Best of Young British Novelists."  In order to qualify, an author must be under 40 years of age. The fourth iteration of this list of novelists has just been selected by Granta.