This month’s Rights Roundup features a winter rom-com, an existential journey, and discovering what fungi can teach us.
U.S. Trade Sales Cooled Somewhat in November but Remain Solid
According to the AAP’s monthly StatShot report, U.S. trade revenues for November 2025 were up over the previous year.
China Bestsellers: Double 11 Promotions and Living in an Era of Uncertainty Boost Sales
OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their fiction, nonfiction, and children’s bestseller lists from November, plus a look at what international authors are selling well in China.
Association of American Publishers Announces This Month’s Revenue Report
The Association of American Publishers released October 2025 StatShot report noting revenue is up 6.7% over October 2024 and 0.4% so far this year.
China Bestsellers: Nobel Prize Boost, Aspirational Nonfiction, and Children’s Classics
Beijing’s OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their international, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s bestseller lists.
Australia’s Helen Garner Wins the UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction
‘A fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer’s life,’ Helen Garner’s win is a first for a diary.
Lyndal Roper’s ‘Summer of Fire and Blood’ Wins Montreal’s Cundill Award
What jurors call a ‘sensational account’ of a 16th-century European uprising wins this year’s Cundill History Cundill History Prize in Montreal.
Sunil Amrith Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize
‘Interconnections between human history and environmental transformation’ are the focus of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize win.
Shortlist: The UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction
Three of the six books shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize in the United Kingdom are Penguin Random House releases.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize Names Its 2025 Finalists
Elements of freedom—and struggles for it—are at play among the three finalists named by the Cundill History Prize in Montreal.