Posted on August 14, 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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Congratulations to the finalists for the 2026 Zora Awards, which honor Black writers with one prize each for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and debut fiction (People).
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Read an excerpt from Liane Moriarty's Big Little Truths, the sequel to her hit Big Little Lies; the follow-up book comes out August 25 (People).
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Guest writer Aaron Blumberg opens the weekly roundup of book ban and challenge news with the first in a three-part series about censorship in prisons (Book Riot).
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Raoul Vaneigem, whose manifesto The Revolution of Everyday Life inspired a student uprising in France in 1968, died July 28 at age ninety-two (The New York Times).
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John Crowley, who blended genres and tropes in such works as Little, Big, The Deep, and Four Freedoms, died August 9 at age eighty-three (The New York Times).
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Readers gave their feedback on an earlier list of the fifty best thrillers of the 21st century — so much feedback, in fact, that their version of the best-of list has one hundred books, instead of fifty (The New York Times).
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