Posted on October 23, 2025 at 12:00 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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A federal judge has ruled one portion of the 2023 Texas READER Act is unconstitutional; that segment requires all booksellers to rate the content of titles they've sold to school libraries — including ones already sold, which would then be recalled if they were deemed "unlawful" for school libraries (Book Riot).
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, who won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for the novel Rakesfall (Literary Hub).
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Take a walk back in time and see the past twenty-five years' picks for the best book of the year (Amazon).
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Read "The dear and detailed dream of your carved head," one of the soon-to-be-published poems found in Iris Murdoch's papers; it's part of the collection Poems from an Attic, which will share, for the first time, Murdoch's exploration of her bisexuality (The Guardian).
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The first adaptations of Agatha Christie's works for preschool- and elementary-age readers are out in the UK today; Little Miss Marple: Muddle at the Vicarage and Mr Poirot: Mischief on the Nile plop the famous sleuths into the Mr. Men and Little Miss series (The Guardian).
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Check out the cover of and design strategy for Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, which will be published March 21 (Electric Literature).
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You can also admire the cover of the May 19 release The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly and hear from the two creatives behind this team: podcaster/author Dana Schwartz and screenwriter Dan Frey (People).
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