Posted on July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Kelly Jensen examines a sampling of the best-books-so-far lists to see which ones appeared most often and to unpack what this might tell us (Book Riot).
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Read the obituaries of News of the World novelist Paulette Jiles, who died July 8 at age eighty-two, and Gorky Park novelist Martin Cruz Smith, who died Friday also at age eighty-two (The New York Times).
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Learn more about how your fellow readers discover their next great read in the 2025 Freckle Report (InfoDocket).
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See the cover — and learn the design's backstory — of the upcoming book Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro (Electric Literature).
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Two scholars think that a scribe's error might have caused centuries-long confusion over the fragment of a text that Geoffrey Chaucer refers to twice in his work (The New York Times).
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Woody Allen, the filmmaker whose career has been tarnished by sexual abuse allegations, will publish his first novel this year (The Guardian).
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