Posted on March 4, 2025 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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The Southern Book Prize has announced its 2025 winners: Rednecks by Taylor Brown (fiction), The Mango Tree by Annabelle Tometich (nonfiction), and Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo (young readers) (The Southern Bookseller Review).
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A study in Baltimore found that, as you might expect and hope, the presence of Little Free Library boxes in communities leads to increased reading among children (Little Free Library).
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The sixteen books on the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist have been revealed; a shortlist comes out April 2, and the winner will be identified June 12 (The Guardian).
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