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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A New BookTok Bestseller List The UK now has an official #BookTok bestseller list thanks to a collaboration
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rebecca Yarros is going to be busy this fall. The Fourth Wing author appeared on TODAY this morning to announce the publication of Peculiar Stars, a standalone contemporary romance coming November 17. Yarros introduced Peculiar Stars, which she
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino If you read The New Yorker with any kind of frequency, you’ve probably read a Jia Tolentino piece. I recommend “Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies” as an amuse-bouche of her style and tone (it’s also just plain juicy). Beyond The New Yorker, Tolentino is often called-upon to deliver
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Release the TBR! One of the great things about being a reader is that there are always more books! And sometimes nothing seems shinier or more exciting than books that aren’t out yet. So for all you science
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Supportive Library Legislation Updates Illinois and Rhode Island each have pending legislation that would strengthen and support libraries in the state. Illinois’s proposed bill tackles the perpetual eBook problem and would stop publishers from overcharging libraries for digital materials, as well as limit the number of eBook software licenses a library can purchase. Rhode Island’s
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TheFight of Our Lives: AIDS in America is a YA nonfiction book about the history of the AIDS crisis in the USA that is out this week from Knopf Books for Young Readers. Below, co-author David Levithan discusses how queer memory is a form of resistance. At a time when politicians are trying to pull
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Novel, Survivor, is Being Republished Survivor by Octavia E. Butler was originally published in
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Percival Everett won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel James, a modern masterpiece that retells The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man who accompanies Huck on
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ever feel like the world is so overwhelming that you need your reading life to just keep things calm for once? I can definitely relate. The world feels like it’s been in a constant state of chaos (can’t
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. Oprah Winfrey Names Maria Semple’s Go Gentle as Her Latest
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Book Industry Coalition Opposes Federal Book Banning Effort Nearly 150 book organizations, ranging from publishers to librarians, booksellers to advocacy groups, and more, have all signed on in opposition to HR 7661, the proposed national
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hollywood relocated to Las Vegas this week for CinemaCon, the world’s largest annual convention for film industry professionals and media. The event, focused on studio showcases, industry networking, and exclusive trailer previews, brought big news for several high-profile
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards Looking to read your way into the best of science fiction and fantasy from last year? Then you’ll want to dive into the Locus Top Ten
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Creative Quest by Questlove Before I even get into the meat of this book, I want to recommend listening to the audiobook. If you do, you’ll be treated not only to hearing Questlove’s words from his own mouth but also original music by him and members of the Roots, plus guest appearances by comedy legends
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Heartdrum is an imprint of Harper Collins Children’s Books. Below, Heartdrum editor Rosemary Brosnan and curator Cynthia Leitich Smith celebrate its fifth anniversary and discuss what has changed since it began. This spring, Heartdrum celebrates our five-year anniversary as an Indigenous-focused imprint of Harper Collins Children’s Books. We launched our first Heartdrum list in January
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