Weekend reads: Week of September 17, 2023

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't have a chance to share on our reader blog this week.

• Rare book donations sought for auction to help Ukraine booksellers (The Guardian) 

• Northern Ireland libraries can no longer afford to buy books (The Guardian)

• Are books getting longer? (LetterSolver)

• The great literary hoax of I, Libertine (BookRiot)

• 10 books from 2013 the aged badly ... and 10 that are still worth reading (BookRiot)

• Books I regret rereading (BookRiot)