Posted on July 31, 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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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has sold a memoir about her historic run for presidency; 107 Days, named after the length of her campaign, comes out September 23 (Associated Press).
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Congratulations to the finalists for the 37th annual Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrate the best of queer literature; winners will be announced October 4 (Book Riot).
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Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is releasing a memoir, Unfettered, about his political career on November 11 (The New York Times).
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Check out the cover of the November 25 release What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears (Electric Literature).
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Read an excerpt of Kaira Rouda's We Were Never Friends; the novel about a sorority reunion that goes south comes out February 3 (People).
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A researcher who reviewed ten years of bestselling YA novels found that protagonists are now more likely to be at least seventeen years old, rather than between ages thirteen and fifteen — a trend that librarians have been commenting on anecdotally (Phys.org).
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