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• Book Review: ‘Framed,’ by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
• Audiobooks to Help You Prepare for Election Day
• Book Review: ‘Polostan,’ by Neal Stephenson
• Book Review: ‘Blood Test,’ by Charles Baxter
• Book Review: ‘Clean,’ by Alia Trabucco Zerán
• Book Review: ‘A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,’ by Robert Hilburn
• Formerly Classified Documents Get the Fine Art Treatment

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• Book Review: ‘Valley So Low,’ by Jared Sullivan
• Book Review: ‘Beyond the Big Lie,’ by Bill Adair
• Evan Gershkovich, U.S. Journalist Imprisoned in Russia, Will Publish a Memoir
• Book Review: ‘Unredacted,’ by Christopher Steele; ‘Interference,’ by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein
• Book Review: ‘Don’t Be a Stranger,’ by Susan Minot
• Book Review: ‘Dogs and Monsters,’ by Mark Haddon
• With the Nobel Prize in Literature, Greatness Is Not the Same as Popularity
• Truly Scary Horror Books for Halloween and Beyond
• Horror Books for Beginners Who Scare Easy
• David Garrard Lowe, Defender of Historic Architecture, Dies at 91
• Overlooked No More: Mariama Bâ, Voice of African Feminism
• Boris Johnson Makes a Case for Trump’s Return, and Perhaps, His Own
• Book Review: ‘Women’s Hotel,’ by Daniel Lavery
• Book Review: ‘Mammoth,’ by Eva Baltasar
• 6,500 Times Best Sellers and 100 Years of Jimmy Carter
• Stanley Tucci on His New Book, ‘What I Ate in One Year’
• A Woman Won South Korea’s First Literature Nobel. That Says a Lot.
• Harvey Awards Inducts 5 Comic Creators to Hall of Fame
• 8 ‘S.N.L.’ Books and Cast Member Memoirs for 8H Superfans
• Han Kang of South Korea Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
• Book Review: ‘Black Star,’ by Kwame Alexander, and “Swinging Into History,” by Karen L. Swanson
• Thomas Rockwell, 91, Dies; Taught Children ‘How to Eat Fried Worms’
• Historical Fiction Books to Read Next
• 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
• Children’s Books to Help Kids Understand Elections
• Book Review: ‘Play Nice,’ by Jason Schreier
• New Books About the Politics of War From Napoleon to World War II to Vietnam
• Book Review: ‘The Elements of Marie Curie,’ by Dava Sobel
• Jami Attenberg on Reading and Her New Book, ‘A Reason to See You Again’
• Book Review: ‘War,’ by Bob Woodward
• Oh, the Horror: 8 Comics for Halloween
• Lily Ebert, Holocaust Survivor, Author and TikTok Star, Dies at 100
• Can a Start-Up Help Authors Get Paid by A.I. Companies?
• Book Revives Questions About Trump’s Ties to Putin
• Cécile Desprairies Was Inspired by a ‘National Family Secret in France’
• Book Review: ‘Selling Sexy,’ by Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez
• Book Review: ‘The Witches of El Paso,’ by Luis Jaramillo
• Biden Excoriated Netanyahu on Israel’s Conduct in the War, Woodward Book Says
• Book Review: ‘Our Evenings,’ by Alan Hollinghurst
• The Best Romance Novels of 2024 (So Far)
• What Book Should You Read Next?
• Martin Amis: An Appreciation
• In ‘Fires in the Dark,’ Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
• Book Review: ‘NB by J.C.,’ by James Campbell
• Book Review: ‘Dom Casmurro,’ by Machado de Assis
• The Detective Novel ‘Whose Body?,’ by Dorothy L. Sayers, Turns 100
• Book Review: ‘The Late Americans,’ by Brandon Taylor
• Martin Amis’s Best Books: A Guide

• BookTok Sensation Emily Rath's Epic Adventure
• The IAP Takes the Guesswork Out of Acquiring Indie Books for Libraries
• Empowering Publishers Through Innovation and Investment at Virtusales
• PW Star Watch 2024: Honorees
• Finding Freedom One Breath at a Time: PW Talks with Jasmine Marie
• New Books Breathe New Life into Breathwork
• LitRPG Goes Mainstream

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• 6 Works of Speculative Fiction Set in Appalachia
• Book Deals: Week of October 14, 2024
• Klopotek Unveils New Publishing Software and Partnerships
• Changing the Game for Publishers Big and Small at KNK Software
• Endnotes: How ‘Is She Really Going Out with Him’ by Sophie Cousens Got Made
• Indie Spotlight: October 2024
• This Week’s Bestsellers: October 14, 2024
• SPD Dissolution Process Moves Forward
• Mackin Educational Resources Buys Booksource
• Special Editions of Books Take a Special Touch
• Sex, Drugs, and Techno: PW Talks with Aria Aber
• 7 New Myth and Folklore Retellings
• Continuous Expansion and Reimagining of Content Solutions at KGL
• New Action-Adventure Sci Fi and Fantasy Books
• The Kingmakers: PW Talks with Preston Lauterbach
• Spirited Away: PW talks with Nuzo Onoh
• Diana Palmer’s Cowboy Love
• The Astrology of Style, Sex, and Self-Discovery
• Plotting the Digital Publishing Course
• 20 Books Our Editors Don't Want You to Miss This Year
• Tarot, Oracle Decks are a Big Deal
• Taylor Norman Named PW Star Watch Superstar of 2024
• New Books Take Fresh Looks at Witchcraft
• Sourcebooks, Cosmopolitan Team Up for New Imprint, Cosmo Reads
• Intuition Meets Hard Science: PW Talks with Siddharth Ramakrishnan
• Bobby Curnow Joins IDW as Editor-in-Chief
• Books that Stretch from the Soul to the Stars
• Star Watch 2024: Publishing’s Brightest
• Two Dot-com Booksellers take Online Honors
• Cover Reveal: 'Where Are You, Brontë?' by Tomie dePaola
• Han Kang Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
• PW Star Watch 2024 Finalist: Nicole Lintemuth
• Heartland Fall Forum: Changing the World, One Book at a Time
• In Brief: October 10, 2024
• At MPIBA FallCon 2024, Booksellers Mingle, Meet Authors, and Talk Shop
• New Kids' and YA Books: Week of October 14, 2024
• From Venezia to the Village: Sullaluna Bookshop and Bistrot Arrives in NYC
• Brooklyn Book Festival 2024 in Photos
• In Memoriam: Lore Segal
• Alan Moore on Magic, Storytelling, Fascism, and His New Not-Quite-a-Comic
• ‘We’re Not Very Serious People’: PW Talks with Fantoons’ David Calcano
• Panel Mania: ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ by David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
• Silver Sprocket, at 15, Turns to Its Community for Support
• The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember (shelftalker)
• The Final ShelfTalker: An Interview with the Year 2024 (shelftalker)
• Forever Shelf Talking (shelftalker)
• The 2023 Stocking Stuffer of the Year Award! (shelftalker)
• Pajama Night 2023 (shelftalker)
• A Harrowing Coming of Age (shelftalker)
• An Interview with Autumn (shelftalker)
• On the Power of ‘Accountable’ (shelftalker)
• On AI, Textual Integrity, and Bookselling (shelftalker)
• Which Picture Books Are Selling This Season? (shelftalker)

NPR Topics: Books

• Riley Keough helps mom Lisa Marie Presley emerge from Elvis' shadow in a new memoir
• Modest moments become revelatory in the wry and incisive 'Shred Sisters'
• Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel
• A little mouse sets sail on a big adventure in 'The Ship in the Window'
• Internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Etgar Keret looks back on a year of war
• South Korean author Han Kang has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Han Kang becomes the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature

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• Barry Sonnenfeld
• Margaret Atwood was advised to just find a good man. Her response: 'You're an idiot'

NPR Topics: Author Interviews

• Stanley Tucci shares insights in 'What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts)'
• New book looks at how the federal government categorizes Native identity
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• Riley Keough helps mom Lisa Marie Presley emerge from Elvis' shadow in a new memoir
• A little mouse sets sail on a big adventure in 'The Ship in the Window'
• TikTok's 'sandwich king' Owen Han is out with a cookbook
• Internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Etgar Keret looks back on a year of war

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• 'Us Fools' author, Nora Lange, on what the farm crisis has to say about today
• Why some people love scary movies
• Barry Sonnenfeld

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• Jesmyn Ward, James McBride among authors nominated at 10th annual Kirkus Prizes
• Feeling sad, lonely? Making friends as an adult is hard. Your front porch can help.
• Voice of the Bills, John Murphy, who suffered a stroke last season, opens up in new book
• Epilogue Books serves up chapters, churros and coffee in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Richard E. Grant discusses 'A Pocketful of Happiness' with USA TODAY's Book Club: Watch for free
• Melissa Joan Hart was almost fired from 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' after racy Maxim cover
• 'Divine Rivals' is a BookTok hit: What to read next, including 'Lovely War'

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• 'Star Wars' exclusive: Read a Boba Fett excerpt from new 'Return of the Jedi' collection
• Book bans: In 3 years, 60 texts have been challenged in Iowa schools. A new law could ban more.
• Why we love Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Ariz. (and why they love 'Divine Rivals')
• 'Old Enough' is the 'Big Bisexual Book' of the summer. Here's why bi representation matters.
• Dear Bookseller: Why 'The Secret Keepers' is the best book for precocious kids
• Intersex surgery stole their joy. Now they're trying to get it back.
• Why we love P&T Knitwear, the bookstore that keeps New York's Lower East Side well read
• Jay-Z-themed library cards drive 'surge' in Brooklyn Library visitors, members: How to get one
• Amid controversy, Michael Oher of 'The Blind Side' fame attends book signing in Mississippi
• Billy Dee Williams' new memoir is nearly here—preorder your copy today
• Billy Porter reignites criticism of Harry Styles' Vogue cover: 'It doesn't feel good to me'
• Ziwe's book 'Black Friend: Essays' is coming this fall—here's how to preorder it
• False claim Ghislaine Maxwell's father owns textbook firm; he died in 1991 | Fact check
• 'Nobody Needs to Know' by Pidgeon Pagonis, August Wilson biography: 5 new must-read books
• 'Henry Hamlet's Heart' and more LGBTQ books to read if you loved 'Heartstopper'
• How to watch 'The Changeling' on Apple TV+
• OnPolitics: Parents clash with school district over LGBTQ books
• Why parents are clashing with schools over 'Pride Puppy' and other LGBTQ+ books
• 'Ludicrous': John Green reacts after Indiana library removes 'The Fault in Our Stars' from young adult shelf
• 'Killers of a Certain Age' and more great books starring women over 40
• It's Book Lovers Day 2023! Celebrate the joy of reading with top products for bookworms

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• Top picks for different features of digital reading devices.
• Potter Potter Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
• New Amazon Kindle e-readers will come out on October 16th?
• The Supernote A5 X2 Official Specs are Revealed
• New Adafruit FeatherWing Offers 2.13-inch Tri-Color e-Paper Display

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• The Amazon Kindle is nowhere to be found
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NYT > Book Reviews

• Book Review: ‘Framed,’ by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
• Book Review: ‘Polostan,’ by Neal Stephenson
• Book Review: ‘Blood Test,’ by Charles Baxter
• Book Review: ‘Clean,’ by Alia Trabucco Zerán
• Book Review: ‘A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,’ by Robert Hilburn
• Book Review: ‘Valley So Low,’ by Jared Sullivan
• Book Review: ‘Beyond the Big Lie,’ by Bill Adair

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• Book Review: ‘Unredacted,’ by Christopher Steele; ‘Interference,’ by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein
• Book Review: ‘Don’t Be a Stranger,’ by Susan Minot
• Book Review: ‘Dogs and Monsters,’ by Mark Haddon

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• The cats of Delhi: A quiet revolution above the streets
• Pizza Hut announces the return of its iconic Book It! program, along with new deals and promotions
• "All love stories end in tragedy": "The Notebook" author Nicholas Sparks defines his genre
• One year after October 7: A return to forever
• George Harrison’s legacy as "the quiet Beatle" is amplified in "Within You Without You"
• Will Trump try to end democracy? Yes — but these scholars claim he can't pull it off
• Who created the "constitutional sheriff" myth? Hint: It's not in the Constitution

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• Riley Keough is fulfilling her mother Lisa Marie Presley's dying wish by helping her seem relatable
• Are sheriffs special in America? Definitely — but not the way the far right claims
• “Eerie similarities": CNN's Dana Bash on "America's deadliest election," fact-checking and Trump
• Melania Trump drops promotional video for upcoming memoir, promising "facts"
• Stephen King has choice words for his books being banned in Florida
• Unpacking the right's "50-year plot" to wreck democracy — and why it might work
• "Abusers are gonna see this film too": "It Ends With Us" producer on sending a message to everyone
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• Varina
• The Female Persuasion
• Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

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