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National Book Awards Longlist announced!

Sep 12 2025: Fiction Nonfiction Translated literature Poetry Young People’s Literature Which have you read? Which are already on your TBR? Did you add any from the list to your TBR?

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Barak Obama's 2025 Summer Reading List

Aug 30 2025: 1m Since someone mentioned it, here you go: • Mark Twain — Ron Chernow A comprehensive biography of one of the most important writers and social commentators in American history. • The Book of Records — Madeleine Thi…

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Kirkus finalists announced!

Aug 28 2025: FICTION The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth) The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (Mariner Books) Isola by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press) A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar ( Knopf) T…

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A new survey of adult reading habits found that the percentage of people who sit down with a book for pleasure on any given day has reached a 20-year low, dipping to 16% in 2023

Aug 21 2025: According to a study cited by Publisher’s Weekly, " A new survey of adult reading habits found that the percentage of people who sit down with a book for pleasure on any given day has reached a 20-year low, dipping to 16…

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Booker Longlist announced!

Jul 30 2025: How many of these have you read? Love Forms by Claire Adam The South by Tash Aw Universality by Natasha Brown One Boat by Jonathan Buckley Flashlight by Susan Choi The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai A…

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2025 Orwell Prize

Jun 27 2025: @kim.kovacs I didn’t know where to put this and you may have already seen it but I know this book was an important one for you. I subsequently read it based on your strong endorsement. Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian nove…

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BookCon will return in 2026

Jun 18 2025: Five years after “retiring” BookCon and BookExpo, ReedPop has announced—to the surprise of many in the book business—that it plans to revive BookCon. The new iteration of the consumer-facing show is slated for April 18-19, 2026, returning to its former home in New York ...

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Carla Hayden to speak at 2025 ALA conference

Jun 13 2025: The American Library Association has announced that Carla Hayden, who was fired from her job as the Librarian of Congress by the Trump administration May 8, will participate in a one-on-one conversation with bestselling author Kwame Alexander June 28 at this year’s ALA ...

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