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National Book Award Winners

Nov 20 2025: Winners are up! You can see them all here: Major Book Awards And watch the ceremony here if you didn’t catch it last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKMIbjd39s I didn’t watch all of it, but did see the speeches…

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Politics loom large at 2025 National Book Awards

Nov 20 2025: On the evening of November 19, attendees to the 76th National Book Awards crowded into Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan in their black-tie best to witness the announcement of publishing’s highest honors. Grammy Award–wi…

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Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs

Nov 19 2025: The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs.

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Aspen Words Literary Prize 2026

Nov 19 2025: Aspen Words Literary Prize 2026 This is one of my favorite lit prize lists for getting a good overview of the best in publishing. I’ve rarely dnf’d a book from past years and of the six I’ve read from this year’s list I…

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Sending books to prisons

Nov 17 2025: Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature. These include Books to Prisoners, which originated with a bookstore, and Books Not Bars, a publisher’s pro…

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Time Magazine 100 Must Reads for 2025

Nov 13 2025: OK, so I love lists… How many of these have you read?

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New report examines writers’ attitudes toward AI

Nov 13 2025: A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while most professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary. The study, “A.I. and The Writ…

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2025 Booker Award Winner Announced!

Nov 10 2025: Flesh by David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Award today. Has anyone here read it? I just added it to my Kindle.

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    When No One Else Will
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    1940s Chicago nurse risks everything at an illegal women’s clinic during a high-profile trial of courage and sisterhood.
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    A Pair of Aces
    by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
    Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

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    A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
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    The Reimagining of Thornwood House
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    A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
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    A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.
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