Posted on December 16, 2025 at 2:00 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 National Book Critics Circle is continuing its new tradition of releasing longlists; here are the titles in the running for the nonfiction and criticism honors (Book Riot).
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These five short stories were the most popular ones in the weekly fiction magazine Recommended Reading (Electric Literature).
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Happy library news: Richard Osman, Kate Mosse, and Philip Pullman are among the authors calling for all British babies to automatically receive a library card at birth (The Guardian).
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Sad library news: After trustees for a library in North Carolina voted to keep a book about a transgender boy on the library's shelves, commissioners voted to dissolve the board entirely (Them).
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