Posted on October 30, 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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In the mood for something chilling and terrifying? Kelly Jensen keeps reporting on book ban and challenge news (Book Riot).
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One reason that we're describing so much literature as Gothic might be the general anxiety that many of us are experiencing (The New York Times).
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More than 100 writers have signed a pledge to boycott Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s largest bookstore, in part because its CEO financially supports a group that pays foreign nationals to enlist in the Israeli army (Literary Hub).
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A Court of Splintered Harmony, the latest book in Sarah J. Maas's Court of Thorns and Roses series, broke the author's release day record, with 1.7 million copies sold on Tuesday — a 600 percent increase from the previous installment's first-day sales (Variety).
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Here are the winners of the Forward Prize, one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious poetry awards (The Guardian).
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