Young adult literature
Literature written for adolescents and young adults
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| January 21 2025 | Deleted her Instagram account due to controversy surrounding the It Ends with Us film adaptation. |
| January 21 2025 | Deleted her Instagram page due to fan backlash. |
| 2024 | Sarah J. Maas won the Goodreads Romantic Fantasy award for House of Flame and Shadow |
| 2024 | A Court of Thorns and Roses ranked #11 on Publishers Weekly's Top 25 list of bestsellers for 2023 |
| 2024 | Sanderson partnered with Maryville University's League of Legends team to financially support their participation in the North American Challengers League (NACL), a professional gaming tournament pathway. |
| 2024 | Appeared at FanX in Salt Lake City, Utah, announcing the purchase of land next to The Realm Town for a potential Dragonsteel Plaza bookstore. |
| 2024 | The Project for Awesome raised over $3.5 million in its annual telethon-style fundraiser. |
| 2024 | Green described his upcoming book in February 2024 as intertwining the history of tuberculosis with a contemporary story of personal experience. |
| 2024 | Barrowman revealed that he experienced depression and contemplated self-harm and suicide following the allegations made against him. |
| 2024 | John Barrowman is scheduled to perform in 'Laid Bare' on a UK tour. |
| 2024 | John Barrowman is set to appear in Series 6 of 'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins'. |
| 2024 | Meg Tilly is involved with Ordinary Angels as a writer |
| 2024 | Criticism of Rowling's views included a statement of 'profound disappointment' from Kerry Kennedy, leading Rowling to return the Ripple of Hope Award given to her by the Robert Francis. Kennedy Human Rights organization. |
| 2024 | The television series 'Cross' is set to be released, based on the novels by James Patterson. |
| December 2024 | Unveiled 'Wind and Truth', the fifth and final book in the first arc of The Stormlight Archive, which he describes as the 'biggest release the fantasy genre has seen in years'. |
| October 2024 | Green announced his second nonfiction book titled Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, set to release in March 2025. |
| September 2024 | Rowling tweeted that she had begun work on a futuristic novel and mentioned three different projects she could pursue after the final planned Strike novel. |
| August 2024 | Launched Kickstarter campaign with Brotherwise Games for a Cosmere tabletop RPG, raising over $14.6 million and breaking the previous record for tabletop RPG pledges. |
| August 2024 | The Utah State Board of Education included six of Sarah J. Maas' books in a list of thirteen banned books that public and charter schools in the state were required to dispose of under House Bill 29. |
| August 2024 | Green participated in a lawsuit against the state of Florida, alongside multiple publishers and authors, over the state's book-banning law. |
| June 2024 | In June 2024, Rowling expressed a 'poor opinion' of Labour leader Keir Starmer, stating it would be difficult for her to vote for Labour. |
| May 2 2024 | The film adaptation of Green's book Turtles All the Way Down was released on Max, where Green makes a cameo as Mr. Adler. |
| April 2024 | Rowling responded to Scotland's Hate Crime and Public Order Act by tweeting a list of trans women, stating that they are 'men, every last one of them.' |
| March 2024 | The CDC named John Green a 2024 'TB Elimination Champion' and he published another op-ed in The Washington Post on tuberculosis diagnostics. |
| March 2024 | Green and his family pledged $1 million a year through 2027 to combat tuberculosis in the Philippines. |
| January 30 2024 | Released House of Flame and Shadow, the third book in the Crescent City series. |
| 2023 | Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Utah Valley University |
| 2023 | The Project for Awesome raised over $3 million in its annual telethon-style fundraiser. |
| 2023 | By 2023, the Harry Potter series had been translated into 84 languages, highlighting its global reach and impact as a literary work. |
| 2023 | The Harry Potter series has sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, marking it as one of the best-selling book series in history. |
| 2023 | The Running Grave, the seventh novel in the Cormoran Strike series, was published. |
| 2023 | Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy was still a bestseller in the UK shortly after its release, although it did not reach the same level of success as the Harry Potter series. |
| 2023 | Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, recognizing her impact in the literary world. |
| 2023 | Published a physical edition of 'Never Never', originally released digitally in 2015. |
| November 2023 | Released her second children's picture book 'My Little Sweet Boy' and became Chief Brand Director of Below 60°, a home fragrance product line. |
| November 2023 | Green joined a lawsuit against the state of Iowa regarding a new law that banned books depicting sex acts from schools. |
| November 2023 | Duff unveiled a new business venture as Chief Brand Director of Below 60°, a line of home fragrance products. |
| September 2023 | Hulu canceled the series 'How I Met Your Father' after two seasons. |
| September 22 2023 | Green attended and briefly spoke at a high-level United Nations meeting on tuberculosis. |
| August 2023 | The Fault in Our Stars was removed from the young adult section of a library in Fishers, Indiana, which prompted Green to respond with a letter to the library's board. |
| August 2023 | The subscription services were branded under the common name 'Good.Store'. |
| July 2023 | Green urged Cepheid to lower the cost of their GeneXpert test cartridges to $5, which resulted in a partial price reduction by Danaher Corporation. |
| June 2023 | Green's awareness campaign led to public backlash against Johnson & Johnson for evergreening the patent of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline. |
| May 2023 | Green published an op-ed in The Washington Post advocating for increased global access to the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline. |
| May 2023 | Production began on the film adaptation of It Ends with Us. |
| April 2023 | A third subscription service called 'Sun Basin Soap' was announced by John and Hank Green. |
| April 2023 | It was announced that a Harry Potter television series will span 10 years of production, featuring a season dedicated to each of the seven Harry Potter books, with Rowling as executive producer. |
| March 2023 | Patterson signed an exclusive first-look deal with Skydance Television. |
| March 2023 | Patterson's Maximum Ride series was banned from two elementary school libraries in Florida's Martin County School District, which he criticized as a 'borderline absurd decision' and urged readers to respond to this legislation by contacting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. |
| 2022 | Sarah J. Maas welcomed her second child, a daughter, expanding her family in New York City. |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles John Barrowman, Hilary Duff, Meg Tilly, Colleen Hoover, J. K. Rowling, Sarah J. Maas, John Green, James Patterson & Brandon Sanderson, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.