Posted on November 2, 2026 at 3:00 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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Sarah Penner has announced the sequel to her hit novel The Lost Apothecary; The Lost Elixir follows fan favorite character Eliza Fanning and comes out May 4 (People).
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Emily Henry has revealed the cover of her next novel, Modern Classic, which comes out April 6 (People).
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The fan fiction website A03 is expecting to be offline for up to a month, after an "intrusion" on the site last Friday (The New York Times).
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Kindle Unlimited is rebranding with Kindle+; a key change to the subscription program, beyond the name, is that the audiobook category is expanding to include some AI-narrated titles (ZDNET).
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Check out these fun library card collaborations between library systems and various pop culture figures, both real and fictional (Book Riot).
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Author Joe Dunthorne decided one day to engage with a scammer claiming to be an enthusiastic reader of his work, to see where the phishing trail led (The Guardian).
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Look back at Sinclair Lewis's Nobel Prize in Literature victory, which happened this week in 1930 and marked the first time an American writer received the award (Literary Hub).
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