Posted on January 31, 2025 at 1:19 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! 

  • Onyx Storm, the third book in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series, has become the fastest-selling adult novel in the past twenty years, with 2.7 million copies sold in its first week out (The New York Times). 

  • Speaking of popular and sought-after ... these debut poetry collections are the most anticipated ones coming out in 2025 (Electric Literature). 

  • Kelly Jensen opens the weekly roundup of book ban and challenge news with a guide to reading the federal governments' press releases critically, highlighting the recent one describing book bans as a hoax as an example (Book Riot).

  • A "Human Authored" certification system to help readers differentiate between AI-generated books and human-written ones has been launched (Authors Guild).

  • James Carlos Blake, whose novels of the US-Mexico borderlands' violent history included In the Rogue Blood, died January 11 at age eighty-one (The New York Times). 

  • Authors (and surely readers too) are concerned that WH Smith’s proposed sale of five hundred stores could create "book deserts" in the United Kingdom (The Guardian). 

Categories: Today in Books

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