Weekend reads: Week of October 3, 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.

• How rural libraries really build diverse collections (Book Riot)

• Librarians discuss the challenges and triumphs of running a library today (The New York Times)

• Filippo Bernardini scammed the book business for years; is he back? (The New York Times) 

• The biggest literary controversies of the past fifteen years, part one (Book Riot) 

• Author Ann Brashares looks back on twenty-five years of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (People)