UK Bookseller Waterstones Lists Their Books of the Year

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Waterstones Names Its Books of the Year I think this is the shortlist, and eventually the book of the year will be named, give the huge banner on the page, but at the very least […]


Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books

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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]


Libraries are Scrambling for Books

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Libraries are Scrambling for Books Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. 404 Media covered why it might be harder for all of us to get new releases from our local libraries. […]


All the Queer Books I Read in October

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I already shared with you the queer books I read during the 24-hour readathon, so I’m skipping those. Here are the other queer books I finished in October, ordered roughly on a scale of not-horror to horror. For my book club, I read This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and […]


All the Queer Horror Books I Read During a 24 Hour Readathon

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I’ve been doing the readathon twice a year every year for more than a decade now. In the early years, I did them on my own, taking to social media to share my progress and cheer other people on. It’s transformed over the years, though. First I convinced my roommate to do them, who now […]


Best Books of the Year Season Has Begun

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2025 You’re not imagining it; Best Books of the Year season is getting earlier and earlier. PW has been first out of the gate the last few years, dropping […]


Barnes & Noble has Announced Their Picks for the Best Books of 2025

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The End of the Year Book Tag: Queer Books Edition

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Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish? Fun fact: I’ve had one book on my Currently Reading shelf on Goodreads since 2016, and that’s Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman. I haven’t picked it up in years, […]


» 58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

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In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the past, present, and future of the literary world. We will be sharing their opinions on various subjects with you over the next weeks, but to start, […]


5 Short Books on My Queer Halloween Readathon TBR

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A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper promises to be a sapphic, mind-melting horror erotica novella, and that definitely earns it a spot on my queer Halloween readathon TBR. I loved Boys Weekend, so I’m excited to pick up Mattie Lubchansky’s new trans horror graphic novel, Simplicity. The reviews say it “blends dystopian science fiction […]