Anniversaries

30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).^[1]
11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.^[2]
2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).

New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of Pub.	Ref.
Álvaro Enrigue	You Dreamed of Empires	January 9	^[3]
Jennifer Croft	The Extinction of Irena Rey	March 5	^[4]
Téa Obreht	The Morningside	March 19	^[5]
Stephen King	You Like It Darker	May 21	^[6]

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Sylvain Tesson	Avec les fées	January 10	^[7]

March 22: Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator (continued Babar the Elephant), dies at age 98.^[8]
April 2: John Barth, American fiction writer, dies at age 93.^[9]