Posted on June 12, 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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Jane Yolen, author of 450 books including The Devil's Arithmetic, died June 11 at age eighty-seven; that 450th book, Monsters of Fife: Terror Birds, comes out July 14 (People).
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Kelly Jensen discusses the movement to deny minors a right to privacy at libraries in the opening to her collection of book ban and challenge news (Book Riot).
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Jensen also reports on how to fight against yet another attempt by the Trump administration to defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Book Riot).
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Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams's memoir that aired Meta's dirty laundry, has seen a 304.5 percent week-on-week sales increase since the writer appeared at a festival and sat silently due to Meta's legal threats against her (The Guardian).
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Check out the cover of LeVar Burton's memoir, Take My Word for It, which comes out November 10 (People).
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Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet have won this year's Women's Prize for The Correspondent (fiction) and The Finest Hotel in Kabul (nonfiction), respectively (The Guardian).
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Here are the 2026 Discover Prize finalists (Barnes & Noble).
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Staffers recommend these books by LGBTQ+ authors for Pride Month (People).
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