Weekend reads: Week of August 8, 2026

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog this past week but thought were worth highlighting.

• As book adaptations boom, Little Free Library is lending a hand (People)

• Why you can't stop buying books you don't have time to read (Inc.)

• Abolish the top ten books list (The Walrus)

• Author Jacqueline Harpman's afterlife as a Booktok star (The New Yorker)

• On the burgeoning field of fiction character biographies (LA Review of Books)