Posted on July 20, 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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Taylor Jenkins Reid has revealed her next novel: The Last Days of Vic & Coco, following pool hustlers in search of one last score in the 1970s, comes out March 2 (People).
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Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood has won the Gabe Hudson Prize (The Associated Press).
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May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry has won the 2026 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize (The Guardian).
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Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, is opening a bookstore in the southern coastal town of Brighton, England; he hopes the shop, called Golden, will be open by Christmas (The Guardian).
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Kelly Jensen explains that this year's drop in attacks on Pride Month events at libraries is a direct response to years past in which anti-LGBTQ+ individuals and groups attacked libraries so strongly that they are opting out of celebrations this year, in her roundup of book ban and censorship news (Book Riot).
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Queen Camilla celebrated her birthday this year by announcing an initiative in which every student in year 6 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus those in P6 in Scotland, will receive a copy of the book Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell this Christmas (The Guardian).
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