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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.

Kamala Harris Book Sales Soaring

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

The New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century is Moving Units

The NYT list lifting book sales, another new horror imprint, and Apple might finally be turning off the streaming floodwaters.

The Biggest Book News of the Week

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On the Life-Changing Joy of Re-Reading Books

On the possibilities of re-reading books...and the reality that literature is part of our world.

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: The Readers Make Their List

NYT readers get their crack at the 100 Best Books of the Century, DUNE:PROPHECY gets a release month, and what it's like to be a book scout.

Free George R.R. Martin from THE WINDS OF WINTER

Grace for Martin, a new press focusing on trans creators, and SHOGUN shows-out in Emmy Nominations. All in today's book news.

Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER Opens in July 2024. It is wildly prescient.

PARABLE OF THE SOWER's prescience, supplementing the NYT's Books of the Century List, and more in today's book news.

Florida Recommends PRIDE & PREJUDICE to Read about ‘American Pride.’ Not kidding.

Florida makes an odd book recommendation, a forthcoming literary documentary, and Audible's royalty changes headline today's book news.