Weekend reads: Week of June 21, 2025

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

• 3 overrated mystery classics and 3 books to read instead (Book Riot) 

• Why you should try out a bookshop crawl (The Guardian) 

• Americans and Britons swear more than Australians online, research finds (The Guardian) 

• AI is poised to rewrite history, literally (The New York Times)