Protest censorship by participating in a Banned Books Week read-in. For a second year, Libro.fm and Silent Book Club are partnering to host read-ins at independent bookstores and libraries this October 4-10. More than 400 libraries and bookshops across the U.S. and more will be hosting these read-ins. Shout-out to my own local shop, Firestorm…
October 2, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen What’s old is new again. One of our chopping block literary controversies of the last 15 years (more on that below) was about a notorious manuscript thief, and here we are today, mystery unsolved and still a hot topic. Will we ever know the…
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Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to seven books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. In early…
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I love reading Latin American historical fiction. I get lost in the depth of the stories, the cultural references so like my own, and the similarity and yet differences between the collective history of the region: the military dictatorships that looked the same and yet not, the political and economic turmoil, the wounds from colonization…
When I think of award-winning graphic novels, two immediately come to mind. They are Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series. Although I’m not as well-read in graphic novels as some, I’ve read both of those. I absolutely adored them for very different reasons. People recommend Bechdel’s memoir so often…
Now that it’s fall, it is time for the tradition of rounding up cozy mystery books with a fall theme! For me, fall means witches on my TV and in my books, and sweating while putting up Halloween decor because I don’t live where the trees turn colors as it gets crisp outside. But while…
It’s often said that, throughout history, queer people have been at the forefront of shaping the cultures that often come to be appreciated by the heteronormative mainstream. Indeed, anywhere from the Black queer trailblazers who helped create genres like country and blues music as we know them today, to the disco movement of the 1970s,…
All bow before the shelf trophies! You’ve probably heard the term “book dragon,” referring to those who collect books like dragons collect gold and gems for their hoard. For those enthusiastic fans of physical books, those shelf trophies are everything. They come in so many forms, too. I used to solely collect first edition, first-printing…