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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In celebration of National Library Lover’s Day and Friday the 13th, the Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with Booklist, Book Riot, iREAD, and NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), is delighted to announce the eighth

Little v. Llano County will continue to have an impact on library materials decisions and your right to access books in your public libraries. Today, lead plaintiff Leila Green Little is here to share the impetus for the lawsuit when the case began, how it progressed through the judicial system, and what the immediate and

Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu (Berkley, April 28) Canwen Xu’s psychological thriller Boring Asian Female will make for a propulsive, unforgettable audiobook listen. Elizabeth Zhang is unremarkable in almost every way. She’s not particularly likable, and she’s extremely plain-looking. But at least she’s smart. Smart enough, she thinks, to get into Harvard Law School.

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For Black History Month, I’ve tended towards more serious content, like last year’s timeline about Black characters and creators in superhero comics. But it’s just as important to celebrate stories that show Black characters having fun adventures and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What do you think of when I say “noir superhero stories?” Dark, damp alleyways. Criminals lurking around every corner. Steam billowing out of the sewers. Fedoras. Capes. Villains straight from a horror film. And, of course, superheroes boldly

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In the YA arena, there’s a sapphic and magical revenge story in To the Death by Andrea Tang. If you’re more in the mood for short and sweet bites, Lisa Slage Robinson’s Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great

Model Home by Rivers Solomon The author of genre-defying novels likeAn Unkindness of GhostsandSorrowlandis back with a take on haunted houses like no other. The Maxwell siblings grew up the only Black family in their neighborhood, in a house haunted by unexplained phenomena. Their mother refused to give the house up, so they endured—but as

The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced the nominees for the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. From Best Novel to Best True Crime, you’re sure to find a great next read on the list. Some of my favorites include the dystopian novel The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, the murder mystery History Lessons by

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It always hurts me to have to put together a list like this because what do you mean I can’t talk about every single book by a Black author that has come out in the last six months?

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We all have brains, and all our brains are different. Some brains may feel more different than others. We’ve learned over and over again that difference is necessary, and it comes with its own strengths and challenges. The

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. While some people firmly believe that no adaptation of a beloved book can ever live up to the book itself, one increasingly true thing is that adaptations boost the book’s visibility and sales. Netflix, coming off a series

Crime 101 [Movie Tie-in] by Don Winslow Don Winslow’s 2021 audiobook novella now has a movie tie-in paperback release that is novel-length and made up of six stories—beginning with the original Crime 101. It starts with the one last-job jewelry heist trope, and a relentless detective, as the collection dives into “themes of crime, vengeance,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Four big things are true of February. First, it’s Black History Month, and while highlighting Black literature and Black YA books is a year-long practice, this month, it’s especially important to pick up books by Black YA authors.

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson Release date: February 10, 2026 If you keep up with any “most anticipated” lists, you’ve probably seen the buzz this book is already getting. I know I have. Sadeqa Johnson, author of Yellow Wife and The House of Eve, turns her eye toward the little-known plight of the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What a whirlwind! February arrives with flurries of new nonfiction just waiting for you to walk into your local bookstore and library to discover them. But with so many new books hitting shelves, where do you even start?!

Small Favors by Colleen Coover (Feb 24) Adults only, please! Follow along on the erotic adventures of a woman, Annie, and her conscience, pint-sized Nibbil, who tries (but not too hard) to keep Annie focused on non-sexual pursuits. Oh, the places they’ll go…This new collection also includes plenty of bonus material, so it’s worth taking

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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 Deep Dive Into the Rise of FanFiction in Publishing Writing for Defector, Eli Cugini explores the vast

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature and has produced numerous award-winning books, including The Remains of the Day, which is perhaps his most widely-known novel. Japanese-born but raised in Surrey from an early age, Ishiguro’s England is at once quintessentially English and entirely unique. I

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s been over 25 years since the film The Sixth Sense hit theaters. People still quote the famous twist-revealing line, and I remember the collective gasps (and an “Oh shit!”) from fellow moviegoers. That feeling is something that

A brutal and powerful image surfacing on social media over the last week is one of 70-year-old comics retailer Greg Ketter being tear-gassed while standing up against ICE. You can see him here yelling at ICE agents for destroying his community and disrupting the lives of his neighbors. Kettler is the owner of Dreamhaven Books,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The most read books on Goodreads in January mostly come down to recent adaptations, from the explosive popularity of the Heated Rivalry TV adaptation to the movie version of The Housemaid and People We Meet On Vacation. Nothing

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Prep those holds lists and get your selector carts ready because the new year means all kinds of new book and book adaptation announcements! I’ve got lots of links to help library workers keep their collection development game

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I don’t usually like self-help books anymore. It’s nothing against the books themselves. It’s that I went through a phase when I read so many of them that I burned out. I no longer feel supported when I

To pursue her new passion, O’Kane moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where she started a PhD and enrolled in an ornithology class, mainly because there were no “Birding for Dummies” ones. The coursework was every bit as engaging as the spot of nature right across from her apartment: Warner Park. The countless hours she spent there

Archie was also, of course, the last holdout at newsstands. They switched to a new newsstand distributor back in 2024 as well: a company called a360media. A360 primarily distributes, well, magazine-sized magazines (and plenty of puzzle books), so that might also be the reason, or part of the reason, for the change to digests. However,