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January’s Best Book Club Books
What are your book club’s plans for 2025? Are y’all revamping things or just carrying on from 2024? One of my book clubs is on...
bookriot.com
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Book review: Crais’ Elvis Cole returns, at last, in ‘The Big Empty’
Robert Crais' L.A. private detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike pick up where they left off after a three-year hiatus. In "The Big Empty,"...
sun-sentinel.com
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December 2024 Deal Announcements
Adult Fiction Comics writer and artist Morgan Boecher‘s CHICKEN HEART, a humorous story of the trans coming out experience, to Liz Frances at Street...
lgbtqreads.com
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Apocalypse, Constantly
Humans love to imagine their own demise. In 1985, when I was 9 years old, I watched the first episode of the new Twilight Zone, a reboot...
theatlantic.com
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Chris Pratt worried that some jokes about Jim O’Heir’s Parks and Rec character were 'meaner than they were funny'
"If it's a joke, it's funny," Pratt says. "But if it's mean for the sake of being mean," that's a different story. Writing the character...
ew.com
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Top Book Stories Of 2024: An Eclectic List
As we bid adieu to 2024, here’s a quick look at some of our best-read books and author interviews that India Currents readers like you...
indiacurrents.com
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Brandon Sanderson was planning Mistborn movies AND a television show
Earlier in December, fantasy author Brandon Sanderson posted his yearly "State of the Sanderson" blog post, where he went over everything he'd worked...
winteriscoming.net
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Atlas Six author Olivie Blake on what it’s like to be ‘a New Year’s resolution person’
Fantasy writer Olivie Blake jokingly tells me that she doesn’t know how to write a book. With eight adult fantasy novels and two YA...
polygon.com
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Beloved Celebrity Icons We Lost in 2024
For many of us personally, we suffered from a lot of loss in 2024. But as a culture, we lost some of our most beloved icons...
blackdoctor.org
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Our 2025 pop culture resolutions : Pop Culture Happy Hour
As a new year arrives, it's only natural to have some goals in mind: What you want to achieve, what heights you want to hit....
npr.org
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This Library Exhibits Some Of The Greatest Books That Don’t Exist
Forget about the best books of 2024. The imaginary books on view at the Grolier Club—from The Garden of Forking Paths to The Songs of...
forbes.com
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10 of the best books of 2024, according to these experts
Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and Gilbert Cruz,...
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The Best Horror Novels: The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards, recommended by The Horror Writers Association
It's not too late to discover your favourite book of the year. Here, we offer a round-up of the horror novels garlanded at the Horror...
fivebooks.com
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Japan’s Word of the Year Has No Rizz
One of the world’s most inventive cultures should have a better phrase to define 2024. It’s the language that gave us the world’s...
bloomberg.com
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My Year of Reading “Faerie Smut”
If you were to tell the January 2024 version of me that my favorite book I’d read all year would be about young adults at...
insidehook.com
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Brian Close: cricket’s hard man
Stephen Chalke’s book One Hell of a Life shows there have been few braver or more idiosyncratic players. Enoch Powell – a Second World War...
newstatesman.com
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These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024
Some of the most checked-out books in public libraries across the country in 2024 include Kristin Hannah's The Women, Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, and Emily Henry's...
npr.org
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5 of the Best Books I’ve Read in 2024
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Montclair chapter.I read a lot in 2024; it was truly a great...
hercampus.com
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What New Yorkers' Reading Habits Told Us About 2024 in Books
Spend enough time in the five boroughs of New York City and you might notice something: each borough can at time s feel like a...
insidehook.com
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10 essential books about Jimmy Carter
Throughout his life time , Jimmy Carter held many titles: 39th president of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist, humanitarian, artist – and writer. In...
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In 1982, B.C. Played Host to a Bizarre, Daring Gun Heist on the Set of First Blood
An arsenal “large enough to start a small-scale war.” These words from The Province could have just as easily referred to the variety of genuine...
montecristomagazine.com
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Jimmy Carter was 'a very unusual kind of politician,' biographer says
President Jimmy Carter was an outlier in more ways than one. Born and raised on the humble farmlands of southern Georgia, Carter grew up without...
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2024 Mystery & Thrillers I’m Still Excited To Read
Whether we intend to or not, we extend a fair amount of thought to the beginnings and ends of years. With the latter we lean...
bookriot.com
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NPR producer shares her pick of romance novels from our annual Books We Love list
NPR senior producer Lauren Magaki read a LOT of romance novels this past year. She shares her recommendations from our Books We Love list. She...
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Kate Kennedy's new book tracking 4 cellists is part-detective story, part-memoir
Kate Kennedy tells the tales of 4 cellists and their missing instruments in her new book, "Cello." She talks about them with NPR's Daniel Estrin, who's...
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Book review: 'The Cabin' a good escape from reality
Patrick Hutchinson is a writer trying to bang out a living the only way available at a moment in his life: writing marketing emails. Hutchinson...
spokesman.com
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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia’s pre‐eminent living writer,” according to the New York time s. His novels, including One Day in the...
smithsonianmag.com
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NPR's Books We Love: Books you probably haven't heard of
NPR's Books We Love is a roundup of our staff's favorite reads this year. Today we look at some of our favorite, more obscure, lesser-known...
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Books We’re Looking Forward To in 2025
A Mark Twain biography and more. Plus: A story you might have missed about troubles at a national park. If you’re in need of...
bloomberg.com
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Searching for hidden medieval stories from the island of the Sagas
Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in...
phys.org
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Long Island's most popular library book checkouts of 2024
Bookworms of Long Island — does your 2024 reading list measure up? The Nassau Library System and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System released their...
newsday.com
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When the Tides Held the Moon
Kelley debuts with a captivating and perfectly balanced blend of history, fantasy, and good old-fashioned carnival magic. In 1911 New York City,...
publishersweekly.com
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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time
Some time s you’re in the mood for a slice of science fiction but you haven’t got the time to embark on a...
newscientist.com
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How a night of mate swapping leads an LA woman on a new path in ‘Olive Days’
Jessica Elisheva Emerson didn’t have to look far for a setting while writing “Olive Days.” Her debut novel is set in L.A.’s...
dailynews.com
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Why We Need a New Dickens
Everyone cares about Oliver Twist. Now we need to help the Artful Dodgers. Note: In 1988, I wrote this article, and it appeared as a cover...
washingtonmonthly.com
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From an overwater villa in the Maldives to a private island: 7 luxury hotels you can book with points
There are many ways to redeem points for hotel stays. I usually redeem for good-value properties that I can book for relatively few points. Having...
thepointsguy.com
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What Brought Us Joy in 2024
Making space for happiness, pleasure, and fun in a challenging yearThe post What Brought Us Joy in 2024 first appeared on The Walrus....
thewalrus.ca
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Joni Mitchell’s single favourite line in all of literature: “Very influential for me”
For a singer and songwriter as supremely talented as Joni Mitchell, it is perhaps no surprise that Mitchell leans on some heavy foundational stones...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
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Feminist Bookstore News by the Numbers
Now part of Reveal Digital, Feminist Bookstore News was a vital source of information (and gossip) amid a flourishing in publishing fifty years...
jstor.org
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 24, 2024
Today’s Featured Book DealsIn Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book DealsPrevious Daily Deals...
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Clover on Jail Support | The Child and Its Enemies
46:32| Thursday, October 31, 2024|Ep. 13 Co-Author of the new book "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" Shannon Clay joins us for a...
acast.com
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Balloons by Tommy’s DeLorenzo inspires latest ‘Do Good’ book by Palos author
When Erin Stevenson released her latest illustrated children’s book, “I am Kind,” it quickly became a hit on Amazon, taking over the top spot...
chicagotribune.com
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6 books we loved from Penguin in 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, it's time to look back and reminisce on all the amazing books we've read this past year. That's why I...
culturess.com
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2024 Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon: The Graphic Novel. Written by Paula Danziger. Illustrated by Victoria Ying. 2024. G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young...
ala.org
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Ten Climate Books to Add to Your Holiday Reading List
Move over murder mysteries and romance novels. Bloomberg Green reporters and editors have picked their top books for climate nerds and the...
bloomberg.com
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‘Free-For-All’ book fair in Glenwood Springs aims to increase community access to a diversity of books
Local volunteers gave away about 7,000 new and used books, in English and Spanish, at the “Free-For-All” book fair at the Glenwood Springs Community...
aspenpublicradio.org
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What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter. The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases...
newyorker.com
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Nyasha Williams speaks on book bans and authorship in 2024
On this month’s edition of Black Talk, Michele Simpson speaks with Colorado children’s book author Nyasha Williams. As we are on the cusp...
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Poet Lemn Sissay: 'I am my biggest failure and I am my biggest success'
This Christmas, poet and author Lemn Sissay plans to make a huge difference to the lives of care leavers by joining together with thousands across...
bigissue.com
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The Best Books of 2024, According to The New York Public Library
Our besties over at the NYPL have released their picks for the best books of the year. Right off the bat, one huge thing we...
bookriot.com
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