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Curl up with the Saturday edition of Today in Books and catch up on the news Book Riot covered this week. Oprah Announces 114th Book Club Pick Sunrise on the Reaping Checkouts are Up 515% According to Libby The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week Massive Victory in Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Dismantling of

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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. 24 Books to Read This Summer Oh, how I love to see a seasonal reading list that thinks

Oprah’s latest book club pick—it’s 114th selection—is Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness. The award-winning poet-turned-novelist’s newest book just came out this week, and follows “the cycles of history, memory and time.” In it, 19-year-old Hai stands atop a bridge one summer evening, ready to jump, when dementia-stricken elderly widow Grazina talks him into going

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. Judge Orders Halt to IMLS Dismantling We’ve got to take our Ws when we get them, folks. Ruling

The Hunger Games is one of the most popular dystopian YA series. It’s sold 100 million copies worldwide, been adapted into movies starring household names, and even influenced publishing overall. And it seems like the series has more in the tank. We’ve already written about the huge release, and how it sold more than 1.5

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. Ocean Vuong Gets the Oprah Win Oprah announced yesterday that Ocean Vuong’s new novel The Emperor of Gladness

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Trump Names Todd Blanche Acting Librarian of Congress Todd Blanche, the attorney who defended Donald Trump during his 2024 hush money trial and is currently serving as the Deputy Attorney General, will now add Acting

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused

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. The NYT‘s Best Books of the Year So Far It feels a little early to be listing the

Addison Rizer is a writer and reader of anything that can be described as weird, sad, or scary. She has an MA in Professional Writing and a BA in English. She writes for Book Riot and Publishers Weekly and is always looking for more ways to gush about the books she loves. Find her published

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I read a lot of queer books, and I don’t always have an opportunity to talk about them on Our Queerest Shelves. So, I thought I’d give you an update of all the queer books I read last

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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. Trump Abruptly Fires First African American Librarian of Congress With seemingly no warning, the first woman and the

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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. Amazon’s Clash With Independent Bookstore Day Might Repeat The we-could-care-less vibes were strong in Amazon’s response to Retail

For the past few weeks, we’ve worked Libby statistics into our more regular book stats coverage. Looking at the user behavior of the wide-reaching library app has been a great way to see how another subset of readers behaves. This past month’s most popular public library checkouts in the US through the Libby app were

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. Controversy Around This Year’s Fiction Pulitzer Selection I just want to start out by saying I celebrate Percival

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

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When COVID-19 turned schools from in-person places of learning to virtual ones, many on the far right used it as an opportunity to take advantage of the general population’s neutral feelings about public schools. People showed up to public schools demanding schools reopen. Schools were never closed, but that rhetoric had an impact — then

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Two months ago, I wrote “An Open Letter to John Lithgow: Please Walk Away From Harry Potter“. At the time of writing it, Lithgow hadn’t yet officially accepted the role of Dumbledore in the upcoming HBO TV adaptation of Harry Potter. I knew it was a long shot that he’d see it, never mind walk

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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. It is a beautiful May day here in Portland, Oregon and my capacity to offer my normal blend of incisive critiques and insouciant observations is severely compromised. Time for a good old-fashion, let’s clear out