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Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner's innovative thriller, “Creation Lake,” and novelist-filmmaker...
Florida school district must restore books with LGBTQ+ content under settlement
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement reached Thursday with students and parents who sued over what they said was an unlawful decision to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBTQ+ content....
Salman Rushdie's memoir about his stabbing, 'Knife,' is a National Book Award nominee
NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards. Canada's Anne Carson, one of the world's most revered poets, was cited for her latest...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Games Gods Play (deluxe ltd. ed.)" by Abigail Owen (Red Tower) 2. “Passions in Death" by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s) 3. “The Cursed (special ed.)" by Harper L. Woods (Bramble) 4. “Vince Flynn: Capture or...
$10,000 literary award named for the late author Gabe Hudson goes to Ayana Mathis' 'The Unsettled'
NEW YORK (AP) — A $10,000 literary award named for the late author-editor-podcaster Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney's, where Hudson once worked. The inaugural winner, Ayana Mathis' “The Unsettled,” was announced Thursday, on what would have been...
Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political
Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We're Alone,” a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like the assassination of a president back in her...
National Book Award long list for young people's literature has a poetic touch
NEW YORK (AP) — This year's long list of National Book Awards for young people's literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A. Coles' “Ariel Crashing a Train” and Shifa...
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Nonfiction 1. Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen, narrated by the author (Joseph Nguyen) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Good Energy by Casey Means, MD, and Calley Means, narrated by Casey...
Oprah Winfrey names Elizabeth Strout's 'Tell Me Everything' as her latest book club pick
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey 's latest book club pick will be a story of familiar faces — in more ways than one. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had chosen “Tell Me Everything,” the new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. It's the second time...
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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Capture or Kill by Don Bentley & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Passions in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) ...
