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Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year is….

B&N's book the year, Reading Rainbow gets a Prime spot, and more in today's book news.

TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

TIME's Must-Reads of the Year, encouraging school board election results, The Onion buys Infowars, and more news of the day.

And the Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize Is….

The Booker announced, Amazon's best books of the year, and more in today's book news.

Voting Opens for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards

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India’s Ban of THE SATANIC VERSES May End for a Wild Reason

The Satanic Verses might be coming back to India, renting shelves at bookstores, and fumbling real hard in Australia.

The Biggest Book News of the Week

Here are the news stories from the week in books and reading worth knowing about

Dorothy Allison, Author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, Dies at Age 75

The passing of Dorothy Allison, B&N continues to open stores, "healing fiction," and more of today's book news.

Sales Surge for Dystopian Books

Election fallout comes to books.

15 Comforting, Stress-Free Reads

Books for when you need the literary equivalent of a weighted blanket, the It Books of November, and more light bites of bookish news.

Fantasy Books That Will Transport You to Another World

Your one-stop shop for Election Day distractions: transporting fantasy reads, gifts for book nerds, and writers going on wild cruises.