A primer on what the Library of Congress is and what the Librarian of Congress does and oversees. Why is this such an appealing target for the current administration? That, plus this week's book censorship news.
Here are the five most-read books on Goodreads this week! These are the buzziest books of the moment, from romance to dystopia.
The award-winning poet-turned-novelist's newest book just came out this week, and follows "the cycles of history, memory and time."
BookTok creators go bonkers over an anonymous author, judge orders halt to IMLS dismantling, Taylor Jenkins Reid's meteoric rise, and more.
Looks like the bestselling YA dystopian series is only growing in popularity
Edinburgh-based company to replace Harry Potter tours with LGBTQ history walks, creating a fantasy league for new books, and more.
The Trump administration has been ordered to stop dismantling the IMLS and has been ordered to restore the agency to its pre-Executive Order functions and staffing.
Follow-up from the firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, DOGE cuts threaten tribal libraries, and more.
The NYT reveals the best books of 2025 so far, the New Yorker explores Substack, a list of complicated literary mothers, and more.
The books that won 2025 Pulitzers, the Trump Admin fires the first African American Librarian of Congress, and more.