In today’s news, Bella Thorne is essay a array called ‘Autumn Falls’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ is buzzing on a book list. Plus, check out USA TODAY’s May books preview.

Here’s a demeanour during what’s buzzing in a book universe today:

Shaking things up: Bella Thorne, 15, a star of a Disney Channel array Shake It Up, is adding author to a résumé that already includes actress, thespian and dancer. Publisher Delacorte currently announces that it has sealed Thorne to write a teen book series, Autumn Falls, about a 14-year-old lady whose life suddenly changes after an confront with magic. The initial book, to be co-written by Elise Allen, will be expelled in summer 2014. “I wanted to write a book that teenagers could describe to, though with a small bit of magic,” Thorne pronounced in a statement. She also has seemed in HBO’s Big Love, NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy, and in a Disney Channel special deliberating how she overcame dyslexia. — Bob Minzesheimer

Great Scott!: F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarkable that “there are no second acts in American lives.” But Fitzgerald — with his classical 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby — is carrying a flattering good screen call in 2013. This week, Gatsby climbs to No. 5 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list, a top ranking ever. Driving seductiveness is a Baz Luhrmann film, that opens May 10 and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as puzzling millionaire Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as a adore of his life, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby, a tack of reserved summer reading, has spent 401 weeks on a list. — Deirdre Donahue

May books preview: USA TODAY’s Bob Minzesheimer and Deirdre Donahue prominence 15 books to review in May, including a tell-all by Amanda Knox, a blockbuster from Dan Brown and a novel by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

Goodbye, Sookie Stackhouse: Charlaine Harris’ best-selling Sookie Stackhouse saga, that desirous a TV uncover True Blood, ends on May 7 with a thirteenth book, Dead Ever After. USA TODAY’s Carol Memmott interviews Harris about a finish of her series and her skeleton for a future.

Introducing Pope Francis: Check out a engorgement of new books about Pope Francis that came out this month, including a bio from consultant Robert Moynihan, a LIFE print book and an e-book by a staff of The Wall Street Journal.

Library of Congress prize: Don DeLillo, author of a National Book Award-winning White Noise, and many recently a brief story collection The Angel Esmeralda, will accept a initial Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, awarded during a 2013 National Book Festival in September. The esteem is for lifetime feat in novella writing.

‘Little Failure’: After 3 successful novels, author Gary Shteyngart is essay a discourse called Little Failure, due out in Jan and described as a “story of a Soviet family that comes to America in 1979 to find a future.” Shteyngart wrote The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story, and is famous for being a common book blurber.

Oprah, book critic: At The New Yorker, Jennifer Szalai examines Oprah Winfrey and her book club’s purpose in a book world. While some authors have deemed her book bar choices as common and low-brow, they certainly give access, broadside — and sepulchral sales — to new books.

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