This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s one of the most consistently banned books in America, considered controversial since its publication over 50 years ago. It was sex-positive long before that term ever existed and still speaks to readers all these years later. It’s
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For this library news roundup, I picked three headlines that probably aren’t going to get national attention, but still generated some strong thoughts and opinions. Let’s dive in. Another Possible Rule Change for Maine Libraries The Maine Library Commission is reviewing another potential rule change for public libraries in the state, which would include a
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The Medieval era is inherently frightening. Also known as the Middle Ages, the Medieval period is generally dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century to the onset of the Renaissance in the 13th
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian In 2019, Moud is a gay teen struggling to reconcile his relationship with his distant Iranian father, Saeed. That’s not to mention he is trying to get his boyfriend to understand the burden of being queer in their culture. When Saeed gets news that his father is dying


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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. On March 2, 2026, Utah banned four more books from all public schools, bringing its complete list of books banned statewide at that time to 27. This came just days after the Maya Angelou estatejoined in a lawsuitfiled
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We need picture books about being a good neighbor. I believe it’s one of the strongest hopes we have for the future. It feels futile to ask our kids to trust that their rights, their peace, or their
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The houses are grand and decaying. Ghost surely haunt their halls. The settings are atmospheric, the vibes uneasy. Emotions run high, omens abound. There’s a damsel in distress, there might be some mystery and romance, and everything’s shrouded
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We’ve all been in one of those book club meetings where everyone stares a little blankly at each other, right? Where “I liked it” or “I didn’t like it” is about as deep as your conversation goes? Those


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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Paperback lovers are used to waiting. There’s a lot of excitement around the hardcover release, and then months—sometimes even years—later, the paperback edition hits shelves. To readers, it often feels like there’s no rhyme or reason why a


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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nearly every week since about this time last year, I’ve been able to note that there’s at least one new YA book being simultaneously published in paperback and in hardcover. That trend continues this week, with two titles
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. Longlist for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first and
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite Braithwaite’s newest has all the sharpness of her debut, My Sister the Serial Killer, alongside the complexity and character development a longer book permits, and my goodness was I desperate to talk about this story and its characters with someone after I put it down. Cursed Daughters has the sweeping


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The Greenville Public Library (SC), like many libraries in the South during the Jim Crow era, operated separate branches for white users and users of color. While on break from school in Illinois in January 1960, Jesse Jackson returned to his hometown of Greenville and went to the library’s branch for people of color. That
Kin – Tayari Jones The author of An American Marriage returns with a new novel that explores the complexities of family, motherhood, and female friendship between two Black women in the American South. Vernice and Annie have been best friends since early childhood, drawn together by proximity and the fact that both are without mothers.
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Horror fans, it seems like it was just 2025, and now suddenly we’re into the third month of 2026! Life is quickly passing us by, and we’re quickly approaching the beginning of spring. Now is the time to
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Processing the loss of a loved one, whether sudden or expected, is something we all have to go through, but that doesn’t make it any easier. No matter how old you are when it happens, it can help
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Brought to you by Random House Children’s Books It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of
I read a bunch of queer nonfiction last month, including All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari, a memoir by a queer Muslim immigrant in Canada. It follows her coming out, going back into the closet, and then finding a way to reconcile her sexuality and her cultural identity. It’s also about her relationship
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 Next ACOTAR Books Have Release Dates What’s that distant screaming, you ask? Don’t worry, it’s just the
Check Out These Recent SFF Awards and Honors At the 57th NAACP Image Awards in February, Nnedi Okorafor’sDeath of the Author won the Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Fiction, and Angie Thomas’s Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi won the Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Youth/Teens. Swords and Spaceships Sign
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