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The 2024 TikTok Award Winners

TikTok Book Awards, the passing of a giant of literary journalism, book sales info, and more in today's book news.

The Ongoing Censorship of High School Advanced Placement Courses: Book Censorship News, July 26, 2024

If THE HANDMAID'S TALE has been in the AP curriculum for a decade, how come it's suddenly a problem now?

The Best New Books Out in August, According to Indie Booksellers

What better way to get book recommendations than from independent booksellers? Here are ten of their favorites out in August 2024.

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

Here are the five most read books on Goodreads this week! These are the buzziest books of the moment, from thrillers to romantasy.

GOD OF THE WOODS by Liz Moore to Be Adapted

Liz Moore's THE UNSEEN WORLD and GOD OF THE WOODS—arguably the book of the summer—are to be developed by Sony as series.

We Finally Have a Book of the Summer. And I Am Happy to Say It’s Good.

Crowning The Book of the Summer, how old books can kill you, banning books about banning, and more in today's book news.

How The Literary Sphere Took Over

Literariness is hot, Project 2025 has public school square in its crosshairs, and more attempts to reckon with great artists who are bad people.

The Adaptation of NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead Will Open New York Film Festival

The film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel NICKEL BOYS will open the 2024 New York FIlm Festival.

Romantasy, #BookTok Help Book Sales in First Half of 2024

Plus, a look at the top ten best selling books of 2024 so far.

Kamala Harris Book Sales Soaring

Harris books are moving, Hugo culls fraudulent votes, N.K. Jemisin on the literature of survival, and more.