Books

Have you seen daily posts from people you follow on social media that look like a bar graph made of green squares? Welcome to Wordle, the daily game taking the word nerd world by storm. But what is Wordle and how do you play it? What strategies help you decipher what the word of the

One of the key findings from a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 30% of Americans now read ebooks, up from 25% in 2019. The number of those who read a print book stayed the same in that time period, while audiobook reading increased from 20% to 23%. The Pew Research Center

In 2022, don’t anticipate that book challenges and wide-ranging censorship of books will slow down across the U.S. They’ll be amplifying, thanks to right-wing and extremist white supremacist groups like No Left Turn, Moms for Liberty, and dozens of state-based organizations, as well as dark money. State governments are packed with representatives who are being

Kai Harris’ debut novel is a stirring story of a transformative summer for a Black girl growing up in 1990s Michigan. What the Fireflies Knew drops us directly into the mind of 10-year-old Kenyatta, known as KB, who has discovered her father’s dead body in the garage of their home on a “dead-end street” in

A five-year mystery has been (mostly) solved, as the FBI arrested Italian citizen and UK publishing worker Filippo Bernardini yesterday on charges of impersonation and fraud. (Here’s the same story in The Guardian, in case you, too, have reached your NYT article limit.) This is such a bizarre case, and the arrest answers the question

Lan Samantha Chang’s fourth book, the terrific novel The Family Chao, draws inspiration from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, in which three brothers struggle against their father’s tyrannical behavior. Instead of 19th-century Russia, Chang’s dialogue-driven novel is set in contemporary Haven, a small town in Wisconsin where larger-than-life patriarch Leo Chao and his wife, Winnie,

2021 was a banner year for book challenges. Ring wing groups organized protests across the country that claimed that porn was in school libraries — with “porn,” of course, being any LGBTQ book. It also brought new legislation and political posturing to “protect” white students from the “discomfort” of learning about racism, including in history.

When then-California Senator Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for vice president of the United States, she spoke of a long history of inspiring women, including the impoverished Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. “We’re not often taught their stories, but as Americans, we all stand on their shoulders,” Harris said. Historian Keisha

Cold weather reading is my favorite reading! The best part of my day is curling up under the covers with my daughter and reading books together. Some days this happens a lot; other days, she doesn’t want to sit still and I read at her while I’m under the covers and she’s playing, but whatever

On October 25, Texas Republican State Representative Matt Krause sent a letter to the Texas school districts asking if they carried any of 850 books listed as well as any other that may include material that could make students feel “discomfort.” The books listed were overwhelmingly by authors of color and/or included LGBTQ characters. A week later,

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The New York Times Book Review marked their 125 year anniversary by asking readers to nominate the best book of the past 125 years. Those submissions were narrowed down to a list of 25, which were voted on by more than 200,000 readers. The list included classics like The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald,

I often think about how differently I consumed books before I started studying English literature. Books have always been my passion, of course, which is why I wanted to study literature in the first place. But the period of years I spent being graded on my ability to read and analyze quickly — far too

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Books and videos seem like an odd pairing at first blush. Books are the choice medium for allowing the reader’s mind and imagination to do much of the heavy lifting. Videos are a much more passive medium, providing almost all interpretation for the viewer’s consumption. And yet, these two are successfully colliding on social media

Month by month, I’ve been reading amazing novels from all around the world that are available in English translation, in order to share those recommendations with all of you. I’ve read books from Catalonia, Mexico, France, Argentina, and Central Africa. And all through November, I read books from Japan — from strange, unsettling dystopias to

Baby shower cards are great. I say this as someone who has rarely given, and never received, such a card. But generally, I am a fan of cards. They express care for the person receiving them, and who doesn’t like being cared for? That said, I do believe there is a chance that books could

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Every year thousands of books are published for children. How do you choose what new books to stock your shelves with before the new year? Award-winning children’s books have always been a go-to resource for teachers, parents, and caregivers. Among the most prestigious awards given for children’s literature are the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. The

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As a former children’s librarian, I’ve read a lot of picture books. Some, I return to again and again, whether for story time or for my own enjoyment (listen, while Penguin Problems doesn’t work for a large group of babies and toddlers, I love that book; it’s hilarious). Many of those books are old standards

Despite a disastrous first meeting, sparks eventually fly between a grumpy duke and a scandalous opera singer in Julie Anne Long’s After Dark with the Duke. When Miss Mariana Wylde meets James Duncan Blackmore, the Duke of Valkirk, it’s disdain at first sight. Mariana’s bad reputation precedes her: A disastrous duel was fought over her

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Have you ever had one of those days where absolutely everything seems to be going wrong and there’s nothing you can do to change it? In Amber Smith’s Code Name: Serendipity, 11-year-old Sadie has been feeling this way all year. Her best friend, Jude, moved to Utah, she’s made an enemy of the meanest girl

I wasn’t a huge fan of school as a kid. Being forced to study Punnett Squares and imaginary numbers really isn’t my idea of a good time. Fortunately, I had strict parents who forced me to listen to my teachers and actually turn my homework in on time. Don’t get me wrong. I was actually

Content warning: this post discusses mental illness and suicide, including descriptions of insensitive depictions of these topics. The poet Sylvia Plath’s legacy lives on in nearly every avenue of pop culture. There’s the literary world, of course, which has created many a Plath biography, or a collection of poetry inspired by her work, or a

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Essential YA Nonfiction: A Guide to Reading Widely was originally published in our YA newsletter, What’s Up In YA. Sign up for it here to get YA news, reviews, deals, and more! We know YA nonfiction isn’t as popular as YA fiction for a host of reasons, and I’ve written here numerous times about how it’s often