Posted on December 8, 2025 at 8:31 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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Mary Kuczkir, the primary author behind Fern Michaels — who wrote more than 200 romances and thrillers — died November 12 at age ninety-two (The New York Times).
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Read an excerpt from Antonia Lloyd-Jones's translation of House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk (Electric Literature).
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Elif Shafak, author of such novels as The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, has been elected as the new president of the Royal Society of Literature (The Guardian).
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See which books were the most searched for on Google this year (The Bookseller).
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The Guardian shares its picks for the best fiction of the year as well as a one-stop shop for its best books of the year.
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