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The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), founded on Juneteenth, 2025, has announced the first National Black Bookstore Day to be celebrated on April 7. National Black Bookstore Day is intended to “recognize, elevate, and drive support to Black-owned bookstores across the United States.” NAB2 founder Kevin Johnson, who owns Underground Books in Sacramento, CA,

Maggie went to bed in Austin, Texas, but woke up in Kair Toren, the setting of her favorite (but sadly unfinished) fantasy series. It’s a world where life is held cheaply and violence abounds, but Maggie almost immediately realizes she can’t be killed when she bounces back from what was most definitely a drowning. A

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Nijigahara Holograph Mythical and harrowing, Inio Asano’s incomparably daring Nijigahara Holograph unfolds like a transcendent dream. In a small Japanese town plagued by a mysterious profusion of butterflies, fifth grader Arié Kimura’s classmates push her down a well in an attempt to appease a monster rumored to dwell in the tunnel behind the elementary school. Arié

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here’s your weekend round-up of the news readers were most interested in this week. Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum Are Writing a Romance Novel Together Roxane Gay is a writer, editor, professor, and public intellectual,

An inquisitive, courageous little girl narrates Haven Iverson’s Into the Wilderness, wherein she describes her family’s annual hiking trips to “mountains upon mountains, forests that tangle their way up ridges, and rivers that rush to pools of stillness.” An author’s note explains that the book’s terrain is inspired by both Colorado’s Mount Zirkel Wilderness, where

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its

Is there such a thing as a charming thriller centered on Jack the Ripper? Indeed, there is: A. Rae Dunlap’s The Dreadfuls features a young protagonist who finds herself all but imprisoned in the Whitechapel Hall Reform School just as the infamous serial killer begins his slaughter. Fans of Dunlap’s well-received debut, The Resurrectionist—a gothic

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction The shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, which

“You don’t really have any friends, do you, Dad?” Andrew McCarthy’s son asks him one day, and McCarthy pauses. Seemingly without much further planning, the actor and author sends a flurry of texts, proposing adventures and visits. Soon, he hits the road. This time, he’s not traversing Spain’s Camino de Santiago with his son (Walking

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. What It’s Like to Be a Romance Cover Model File this under: we all contain multitudes. In 2019, Andrew Flanagan was a welder living in Franklin County, Alabama. Now, he’s the cover model on dozens

Drawing on conversations and voicemails, as well as interviews with author Larry McMurtry’s family and friends, New York Times journalist David Streitfeld delivers a sprawling yet captivating portrait of his longtime friend in Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry.  Intercutting biographical details with in-depth analyses of McMurtry’s novels, nonfiction and screenplays, Streitfeld

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In While We’re Here, the prolific duo of Anne Wynter (Everybody in the Red Brick Building, Nell Plants a Tree) and Micha Archer (Wonder Walkers, Daniel Finds a Poem) combine talents to create a lively celebration of the joys of slowing down, seizing the moment and breathing in the beauty of your surroundings—a much needed,

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Maggie Smith’s newest poetry collection (and her 11th book overall) is a contemplation of the big questions: What does it mean to be an eternal being in a body that can—and will—fail in the end? What really happens after we die, and if we got to choose our afterlives, what would they be? In the

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Asako Yuzuki (Butter) exposes how the pressure to conform can push women toward manipulation, obsession and emotional collapse in Hooked, translated by Polly Barton. At 30 years old, Eriko checks all the status boxes for life in affluent Setagaya, a neighborhood in Tokyo. She holds a good job in fish import and export at a

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What actually makes a witch wicked? Is it the casting of spells, the use of potions, the peculiar wardrobe? Certainly, every witch worth her cauldron has all of these down pat. In her funny, breezy and charming fantasy novel, The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale, author C.M. Waggoner posits that a witch’s wickedness hinges on

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Many people relish the opportunity to entertain. Sharing a love for food, conversation and friendship fosters social connections and has feel-good benefits for both the host and their guests. But let’s be honest: Playing host can also be stressful, expensive and overwhelming. Mariana Velásquez’s Revel: A Maximalist’s Guide to Having People Over aims to alleviate

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There are few subjects in art history as perennial as the female body. You might think, then, that art historian Amy Dempsey’s new book The Female Body in Art would have too much ground to cover in a single volume. But her close attention to interesting details keeps the prose moving, and the inclusion of

Under the silky black surface of the ocean, orcas—known as “sea wolves”—emerge from the depths and startle nearby fishing boats. However, the real danger around Orcas Island, Washington, could very well be on land. In Stacey Lee’s haunting and gripping historical mystery, Heiress of Nowhere, readers are plunged into a layered and finely tuned thriller

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Young readers who already count trees (and flowers, and animals) as friends will treasure Leave the Trees, Please. And those who haven’t yet befriended an oak, elm or willow are sure to be inspired by this moving, gorgeous ode to the trees so vital to life on Earth.  As the author, the late British poet

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Sinners racked up four Oscar wins last night, for original screenplay, lead actor, cinematography, and score. To celebrate, we’re sharing this list again, so read on for six books to read if you loved Sinners! By the time

The action in Booker Prize-shortlisted author Mieko Kawakami’s fourth novel to be translated into English, Sisters in Yellow, centers on Hana Ito, a ’90s-era latchkey kid living in comparative poverty in Higashimurayama, a Tokyo suburb. With an absent father and a mother whose parenting style falls somewhere between detached and deranged, Hana dreams of escaping