Posted on December 20, 2023 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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Emily Temple looked at sixty-two best-of lists from forty-eight different publications in order to create the ultimate best books of 2023 (Literary Hub).
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UK publisher Mills & Boon announced that it will start releasing two "trend-led" romance novels, designed to appeal to BookTok'ers, each month (The Guardian).
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Bestselling author Dan Greenburg, who broke onto the literary scene with How to Be a Jewish Mother, has died at the age of eighty-seven (The New York Times).
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Historian J.G.A. Pocock, who wrote a number of influential books including Barbarism and Religion (on another historian, Edward Gibbon), has died at the age of ninety-nine (The New York Times).
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