Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 13

1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play.

2011 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

The novel follows Fuyuko Irie, a freelance proofreader in her mid-thirties who lives alone, over the course of about eight months.

2020 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement.

• Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel

2022 You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.

2025 The Picasso Heist by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Everyone wants to possess it.

Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief.

2025 And The Saints Were Silent by Lila Grey (UK)

The justice system let her bleed.

Now she’s writing her own gospel—

in vengeance, in fire, in sin.