This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by St. Martin’s Griffin.
Chelsea Manning Announces Memoir
Chelsea Manning, who spent 7 years of her 35 year sentence in prison for leaking 720,000 classified military documents to WikiLeaks, announced she’s writing a memoir. However, the memoir won’t focus on her trial as “she compared her memoir to Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, about the author’s 1,100 mile hike along the Pacific Crest trail.”
The British Book Awards Winners
The eight categories, and overall winner, of the British Book Awards have been announced! Sally Rooney took top prize with book of the year for Normal People and Michelle Obama’s Becoming won for Nonfiction and Audiobook! Check out all the winners here.
In Death Series Will Celebrate 50th Book Milestone
That 50 isn’t a typo! J.D. Robb’s (Nora Roberts) In Death series–a futuristic detective series set in N.Y.–will see the 50th book in the series publish in February 2020. So if you’ve ever wanted a real book marathon challenge here ya go!