Weekend reads: Week of April 18, 2025

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog last week but thought were worth highlighting.

• It's been five years since American Dirt and I'm still salty (Book Riot) 

• Where are all the basketball romance books? (Book Riot)

• The real mean girls of classic literature (Literary Hub)

• Would Joan Didion have wanted the world to see her notes on therapy? (The New York Times) 

• Nettie Jones, an audacious novelist ahead of her time, is now getting her due (The New York Times)