Posted on May 14, 2026 at 3:00 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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Novelist and short-story writer Koji Suzuki, whose book Ring was made into a movie in Japan and later in the US (as The Ring here), died May 8 at age sixty-eight (The New York Times).
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Judith Barnard, who published romantic thrillers like 1982's Deceptions with her husband under the nom de plume Judith Michael, died May 6 at age ninety-four (The New York Times).
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We now know books 100 through 41 on the latest all-time top-100 books published in English (The Guardian).
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Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut collection, Joy Is My Middle Name (The Guardian).
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See the shortlist for the 2026 Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards; the winners will be announced May 20 (B&N).
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The books of Australian author Craig Silvey, who pled guilty to child exploitation offenses, have been permanently pulled from all public schools in his home state (ABC Australia).
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Check out the cover of Distortion by Kathryn Bromwich and learn how it was designed (Electric Literature).
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