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Today in Books How to support anti-book ban bills, Jenna Bush Hager partners up with a Big 5 publisher, that problematic book app AI, and more. S. Zainab Williams Jan 11, 2025 The comments section is moderated according to our community guidelines. Please check them out so we can maintain a safe and supportive community
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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 Big List of 2025 Books By Women of Color Electric Literature rounded up 48 books by women
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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. Jenna Bush Hager Partners With Random House Jenna Bush Hager is partnering up with Random House Publishing Group
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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. Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Lit Hub published a megalist of anticipated books (291!) out in
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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. Is the World Bad Because Men Aren’t Reading Fiction? I know we’re all grasping at straws to explain
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It’s the moment every book lover dreads: you’re chatting with a friend/colleague/acquaintance/airplane seatmate. You mention that you like to read, they ask you for a few recommendations, and then…your mind goes blank. Books? What are those? Enter: the magic of a spreadsheet. Mine goes back to 2013, and let me tell you, that’s a wild
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Roll into your weekend with this highlight reel of the bookish news Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. The It Books of 2024 It’s easy to see the It Books of the year in hindsight, and we did just that on a recent episode of the Book Riot Podcast. What’s not easy is
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Old Soul by Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, January 28) Here’s another new horror novel focused on grief, and this one kicks off when two strangers meet in Osaka airport. Both Jake and Mariko lost someone important to them, and before their deaths, they both saw the same woman, even though they were 6,000 miles
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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. Bracketology But Make It Bookish The bracket is live for the 2025 Tournament of Books, set to begin
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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. A Legal Victory for That Librarian Louisiana library and activist Amanda Jones, author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, closed out 2024 with a big win. In 2022, Jones filed a
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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
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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
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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 10 Books That Defined 2024 Amazon editors made the impossible selection of just 10 books that defined
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What a year it’s been! Martyr! came out of the gate in January as the year’s hottest debut with major book award potential, and while it didn’t win the NBA, it made the shortlist and just about every
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