News of note for readers: October 2, 2025

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!  

• Colorado investigators are reviewing the death of writer Hunter S. Thompson per the request of his widow, over two decades after he died in what was ruled a suicide (NBC News).

• A Florida judge ruled that a school library is not a public forum and thus the removal of the book And Tango Makes Three from an Escambia County school library did not violate the First Amendment (The New York Times). 

• Speaking of school libraries, Kelly Jensen reports that at least fifteen colleges and universities received threats of explosives being in or near their campus libraries (Book Riot).

• The 2025 shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize, which honors excellence in nonfiction writing, has been released (The Guardian).

• Read Piyumi Kapugeekiyana's "The Original Is Not Here," which won this year's 4thWrite Short Story Prize (The Guardian).

• Amazon Prime Video has given the green light to a movie to conclude the TV series based on Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty book series (Variety).