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Today in Books

All the News We Covered This Week

Oprah's 111th book club pick, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill, the best new cozy mysteries, and bonus news!

Welcome to Today in Books. In this weekend edition, a look at all the news Book Riot covered this week.

🎞️ Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY

🥀 Hulu’s Series Adaptation of A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES Is Dead

📚 Oprah has Announced her 111th Book Club Pick

🔥 Iowa Rushes, Advances Librarian Criminalization Bill

✂️ Indiana Cuts Dolly Parton Imagination Library from Budget

🔎 The Best New Cozy Mysteries, According to Goodreads

🏆 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalists Announced—Andrew Garfield and Cynthia Erivo Among Them

📖 The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

🚫 Anti-Book Ban Legislation Proposals 2025: Book Censorship News, February 21, 2025

And here are a bunch of tasty links from around the bookish internet that got left on the Today in Books cutting room floor this week.

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Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools

Chris Evans’ Captain America Wasn’t Expected to Save Us. So Why Is Anthony Mackie’s?

‘BET’ Netflix’s English Live Action ‘Kakegurui’ Adaptation Coming in 2025

ND Stevenson’s First Prose Novel, ‘Scarlet Morning,’ To Be Published by Quill Tree

Banned in fascist Italy, ‘There’s No Turning Back’ gets new life

Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives.

If the marriage plot is an ailment, is the divorce plot the cure?

Kamala Harris Signs With CAA

Water Main Break Shuts Down Paperback Exchange

Announcing The 2025 PEN America Grant Winners

“Murderbot,” starring and executive produced by Alexander Skarsgård

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