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In addition to the above prizes, Amy Tan received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. We Need Diverse Books took home the Innovator’s Award, which honors efforts that help bring storytelling into the future, and the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose went to Adam Ross for his book Playworld. Those were all announced prior
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Spotify has quite a few new book offerings this spring. For starters, the streaming company is now officially offering physical books in the
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Get This Deal $2.99 L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón Get This Deal $4.99 Severance by Ling Ma Get This Deal $1.99 Without a Clue by Melissa Ferguson Get This Deal $4.99 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Get This Deal $3.99 Shadow and Bone by Leigh
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. Oprah Winfrey Names Maria Semple’s Go Gentle as Her Latest
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hollywood relocated to Las Vegas this week for CinemaCon, the world’s largest annual convention for film industry professionals and media. The event, focused on studio showcases, industry networking, and exclusive trailer previews, brought big news for several high-profile
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The last several years have been a nonstop barrage of bad legislation and targeted attacks on public libraries and public schools. Another program which has been under assault at the state level is one whose benefits are well-researched and whose cost is so low that it’s clear the attempts to revoke funding are about cruelty,
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We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Burn Down Masters House by Clay Cane Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates I Shall Never Fall In Love by
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Creative Quest by Questlove Before I even get into the meat of this book, I want to recommend listening to the audiobook. If you do, you’ll be treated not only to hearing Questlove’s words from his own mouth but also original music by him and members of the Roots, plus guest appearances by comedy legends
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Yesterday, for our Today in Books newsletter, I wrote briefly about how, previously, Muslim erotica writers in Nigeria were being censored, with some even having their books burned. But now? Now the girlies have found another way. They’ve
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. The Indies Choice Book Awards are back after a seven-year hiatus to celebrate the best titles that appeared on the ABA’s Indie Next List, Kids’
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There’s one new title in the top five this week: The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez. Jimenez is best known for Just for the Summer, and her newest book is the current most-read romance on Goodreads. It takes that throne from In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde, which has slipped to the #7
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder Get This Deal $2.99 The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar Get This Deal $1.99 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Get This Deal $1.99 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Get This Deal $1.99 The City of Brass by
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