Posted on December 29, 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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Female authors dominated most libraries' most-borrowed-books lists this year (NPR).
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Kelly Jensen concluded her three-part series on the history of comics censorship, in the opening to her weekly roundup of book ban and challenge news (Book Riot).
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Grace Lapointe explains why she thinks certain high-profile book adaptations didn't last long as TV series (Book Riot).
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Phyllis Lee Levin, who went from fashion reporter to author of Abigail Adams: A Biography, Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House, and The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, died November 27 at age 104 (The New York Times).
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Robert Lindsey, who wrote The Falcon and the Snowman and served as a ghostwriter for Ronald Reagan and Marlon Brando, died December 19 at age ninety (The New York Times).
Categories: Today in Books