Posted on February 11, 2026 at 2:00 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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Read an excerpt from This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman (Literary Hub).
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Here are the sixteen books longlisted for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction; the six-book-long shortlist comes out March 25, with a winner announced June 11 (The Guardian).
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Author James Patterson and Bookshop.org are launching a new literary prize to celebrate debut authors; the longlist is out now, the shortlist will come March 16, and the winner will be revealed April 6 (Bookshop.org).
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The owner of Dreamhaven Books, a comic and fantasy lit bookstore in Minneapolis, has become one of the faces of the Twin Cities' opposition to ICE's campaign of violence in the region (The Popverse).
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Children's author and illustrator Hudson Talbott, known for We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story and Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust, died January 22 at age seventy-six (The New York Times).
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Gabor Boritt, who wrote and edited a number of books about Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's presidency, died February 2 at age eighty-six (The New York Times).
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The American Association of Publishers reported that book sales in 2025 were mostly flat; the full story is subscriber-only, but Book Riot noted that trade paperbacks stood out in seeing a significant drop in sales (Publishers Lunch).
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