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Posted on February 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A few posts that have to do with the act of reading or trends around it have popped up of late — both serious and silly.
All of these piqued our interest, and we hope at least one of them does the same for you.
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Here are seventeen new cross-genre trends that have emerged in 2025's literature so far (Goodreads).
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Speaking of trends, romantasy helped drive a 41.3 percent increase in sales of science fiction and fantasy books in the United Kingdom in 2024 (The Guardian).
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In the past few weeks, classic dystopian novels have seen a sales spike; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury hit number eight on one list, while The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood was number ten on another (Publishers Weekly).
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The podcast It's Been A Minute interviewed Elaine Castillo, author of How to Read Now, and Abdullah Shihipar, research associate at the People, Place & Health Collective at Brown University, about the oft-reported decline in reading and the ways readers can get their grooves back (NPR).
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