Posted on February 2, 2026 at 12:00 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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Libro.fm, a platform through which independent bookstores can sell audiobooks, has launched an annual subscription plan; the plan gives subscribers twelve audiobook credits for $169.99 per year (Publishers Weekly).
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See which books made the preliminary ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards; those that move on to the final ballot are considered the nominees or finalists (Horror Writers Association).
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The Indies Choice Book Awards are back, after having been postponed since 2019, and voting has begun (American Booksellers Association).
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Jack Kerouac’s original draft of On the Road — made of sheets of tracing paper taped together so that he wouldn't have to change pages as he typed and measuring 121 feet long — will go up for auction next month (The Guardian).
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Will Eisner’s intellectual property — including graphic novels, children’s books, instruction manuals for creating comics, and characters such as the Spirit — is also up for sale (The New York Times).
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Audrey Niffenegger will publish a sequel to her 2003 hit The Time Traveler’s Wife; Life Out of Order, which took her thirteen years to write, will come out October 27 (The Guardian).
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Poet X.J. Kennedy, whose decades of work continued to focus on rhyme and meter even as varying new schools of thought emerged, died Sunday at age ninety-six (The New York Times).
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