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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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Here are the Best Books of 2022, According to Buzzfeed
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Here are the Most Read Books on Goodreads in 2022
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The Best Books of the Year, According to Oprah Daily
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We Need Diverse Books Launches #BooksSaveLives Campaign
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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This is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2022
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The New York Times Releases 100 Notable Books for 2022
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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The Best Books of 2022, According to The Washington Post
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How To Support the HarperCollins Union During Their Strike
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After 125 Years, This is Brooklyn Public Library’s Most Borrowed Book
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Helena Bonham Carter Named London Library’s First Female President
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Keller Schools Ban Books About Trans and Nonbinary People
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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This is the Best Book of the Year, According to Barnes and Noble Booksellers
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Jamestown Library Defunded (Again) Over LGBTQ Books, Will Likely Close
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2022 Kirkus Prize Winners
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Amazon is Adding Goodreads Ratings to Book Listings
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You Can Buy Joan Didion’s Art, Notebooks, Writing Desk, and Book Collection Right Now
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The Best Horror of the Year: The Winners of the Shirley Jackson Awards
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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Octavia Butler’s Genre-Bending KINDRED Coming to Hulu
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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The Top 10 YA Books of the Year, According to Teenagers
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Here are the Best Books of 2022, According to Barnes and Noble Booksellers
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“Rogue” Employee Replaces Pro-Choice Book Orders with Christian Books
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Barnes & Noble is Offering Buy One, Get One 50% Off on Hundreds of Books
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The 2022 Harvey Awards Announce the Best Comics of the Year
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Angela Lansbury, Star of MURDER, SHE WROTE, Has Died at 96
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2022
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Get Paid $2k to ReWrite the Ending of Game of Thrones
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Drag Queen Bingo at Library Cancelled After Threats, Though Majority Support It
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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The Most Popular Horror Novels of the Past 5 Years, According to Goodreads
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Canadian Right-Wing Book Banning Groups Don’t Know How School Boards Work
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Authors Who Made the Time100 Next List This Year
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Most Popular Comic Book Superhero by State
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon
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City of Chicago and Chicago Public Library Declare Themselves Book Sanctuaries
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5,100 Free Library Cards Issued by Brooklyn Library in Fight Against Book Banning
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Spotify Adds Audiobook Feature in U.S.
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2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Nominees Announced
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John Green’s First Novel May Be Banned At His Old School
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Kindle Unlimited + Amazon Prime’s Most Popular Summer Books 2022
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SLJ Survey Shows That Censorship Will Have Long-Term Effect on School Libraries
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Here Are the Winners of the 2022 Hugo Awards
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Peter Straub, Horror Novelist and Poet, Has Died at 79
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These are Every State’s Favorite Stephen King Movies
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author of NICKEL AND DIMED, Has Passed Away at 81
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Megan Thee Stallion to Appear in She-Hulk
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Nora Roberts Donates 50k To Library Defunded for LGBTQ Books
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Goodreads Announces the Most Popular Horror Books of 2022 (So Far)
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Texas School Board Bans the Word “Transgender” from District
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George R.R. Martin Would Like You To Stop Speculating About His Death
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Raymond Briggs, Author of THE SNOWMAN, Dies at 88
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The Bennet House from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice is for Sale!
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Award-Winning Popular Historian David McCullough Dies at 89
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$90M Batgirl Movie Canceled
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Library Stormed by Proud Boys During Drag Queen Story Hour Starts Year of “Every Month is Pride” Events
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New Survey Shows How Americans’ Reading Habits Changed from Childhood
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Man Sentenced to 16 Years for $3M Book Scam
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Sell Books in Paradise: Luxury Resort Hiring “Barefoot Bookseller”
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Barack Obama’s 2022 Summer Reading List
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Pennsylvania School Board Voting On “Draconian” Book Ban Policy
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Lafayette Librarian Threatened with Firing for Opposing Censorship
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I Choose You!…To be a Pokémon Archivist: Pokémon Company Seeks Archivist
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2022 World Fantasy Awards Finalists Announced
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New Michelle Obama Book, THE LIGHT WE CARRY, Coming This Fall
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TikTok Book Club Debuts With Jane Austen Book
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Attendees Attacked at Canadian Drag Queen Story Hour
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Check Out the Full-Length Trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winners Announced
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Audiobook Recordings of Three Key Supreme Court Abortion Rulings Released
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Meet the New Reality Show: America’s Next Great Author
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Billboards with Quotes From LGBTQ Books Placed in Book-Banning States
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Goodreads Announces the Most Popular Historical Fiction of 2022 (So Far)
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‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ Creator Kazuki Takahashi found Dead at Sea
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HarperCollins Union Has Voted To Strike
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Dubai Opens New Book-Shaped Library
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The 50 Best Book Covers of 2021, As Chosen By Graphic Designers
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Canadian Librarian Responds To Threats Against Drag Story Hour by Adding Second Event
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Angie Thomas’s ON THE COME UP Teaser Trailer Is Here
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2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners
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George M. Johnson Announced as Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week
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Malorie Blackman Wins PEN Pinter Prize for “Unflinching” Writing
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LGBTQ Book Sales Surge in U.S., Especially in YA
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Persuasion Trailer Starring Dakota Johnson Shows New Take on Jane Austen Classic
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The Best LGBTQ Books of the Year, According to Lambda Literary
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72 of the Most Popular New Books on Goodreads Right Now
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NYPL is Giving Away 500,000 Free Books This Summer!
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LeVar Burton Calls National Increase in Book Bans “Embarrassing”
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Audiobook Sales Up for 10th Straight Year
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Unburnable Copy of The Handmaid’s Tale Sells for $130,000
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Barnes & Noble Announces Their Best Books of 2022 So Far
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A Group of Louisiana Libraries Block Cultural Displays
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New Children’s Book by Channing Tatum Inspired by His Daughter
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R.L. Stine is Releasing New Horror Stories for Kids This Summer
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High School Activist Given PEN Award for Organizing Protests Against “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
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