Posted on May 15, 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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We now know books 100 through 21 on the latest all-time top-100 books published in English (The Guardian).
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More and more authors are signing an open letter to the sponsors of the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature program asking that they address the "harm" caused by current ambassador Mac Barnett's comment that he fears "maybe more like 94.7% of kids’ books are crud" (School Library Journal).
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The teaser for Netflix's miniseries adaptation of East of Eden by John Steinbeck is out (YouTube).
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Netflix is also working on a TV series based on The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus; Scarlett Johansson, who starred in the 2007 movie adaptation of the book, will be the executive producer (The Hollywood Reporter).
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Frank Stack — who as Foolbert Sturgeon wrote The Adventures of Jesus, considered the first underground comic — died April 12 at age eighty-eight (The New York Times).
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Kelly Jensen opens her weekly roundup of book ban and challenge news with an analysis of the past five years (roughly) in book ban data — the trends she found and what it says about the movement as a whole (Book Riot).
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