Posted on April 27, 2026 at 10:19 AM 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 Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is at the top of Spotify's list of all-time most-streamed audiobooks ... with the qualifier that it's only been a few years since Spotify started offering books (Spotify).
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Haruki Murakami's sixteenth novel, The Tale of Kaho, will be his first with a female protagonist; the writer has often been criticized for how he depicts women in his work (The Guardian).
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This week in history: Edna St. Vincent Millay's manuscript of Conversation at Midnight, which was to be printed in June, went up in flames during a hotel fire, but she was able to re-create it from memory (Literary Hub).
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German author Matthias Jügler's debut novel, Mayfly Season, includes a woman who believes East German officials stole her child from her; ahead of the book's publication in the UK, he discusses how the current German government has subtly pushed back against its contents (The Guardian).
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The latest essay about the moral value of literature walks us through the various ages' attitudes toward it en route to concluding that it allows us to enjoy the search for truth (Aeon).
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