News of note for readers: April 18, 2025

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days!

• Here are the finalists for the NYPL’s 2025 Young Lions Fiction Award (Literary Hub) 

• Here are all the new Guggenheim fellows in the literary arts (Literary Hub)

• Study: Book bans in libraries increase circulation of those titles by 12% (Informs.org)

• Exclusive cover reveal of Little Movements by Lauren Morrow (Electric Literature)

• Michigan town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one (The Guardian)