Posted on May 4, 2026 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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The Big Empty by Robert Crais (best novel), Dead Money by Jakob Kerr (best first novel by an American author), and Murderland by Caroline Fraser (best fact crime) are among the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Awards winners (Mystery Writers of America).
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Researchers recently discovered an excerpt from Homer's Iliad in a Roman-era Egyptian mummy's stomach (Scientific American).
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Read an excerpt from The Girl in the Lake by Lauren Oliver; the book — Oliver's first one for adults — comes out June 1 and has already been acquired by Amazon MGM Studios (People).
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Matt Dinniman has struck a deal to make Libby the exclusive distributor of ebook copies of his Dungeon Crawler Carl series — meaning libraries can finally offer digital copies of them (Book Riot).
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The BOOK IT! summer reading program — which rewards young readers' accomplishments with free pizzas from Pizza Hut — is back this year (People).
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Author Kathryn Stockett explains why it was so hard to follow up on The Help's success and what she did to overcome the various obstacles in order to release another novel seventeen years later (The New York Times).
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