Posted on October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM 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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Biblical scholar and professor Phyllis Trible, who wrote God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality and Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives, died Friday at age ninety-two (The New York Times).
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The Booker Prize Foundation has added an award, to be handed out for the first time in 2027; the Children's Booker Prize will give £50,000 (about $66,500) to the author of the best fiction written for readers aged eight to twelve, and child judges will join adults on the panel (The Guardian).
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Barnes & Noble has announced the finalists for the 2025 Book of the Year, not to be confused with the best books of the year; the winner will be revealed November 13 (B&N).
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher has become the nineteenth book banned in all Utah schools; Kelly Jensen emphasizes that the average publication date of these books is 2011, meaning that they've been available for well over a decade and "caused no issues until this manufactured crisis" (Book Riot).
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Jensen also reminds us of ten previously published — and still important — posts on book bans and challenges, in her weekly roundup of censorship news (Book Riot).
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