- 2021 Oct 18
B&N's Top 10 Books of 2021
Barnes and Noble has named its favorite books of the year.
- 2021 Oct 15
Indigo's Best Books of 2021
Canada's Indigo Books has chosen its best books of 2021. The #1 pick was 'The Strangers' by Katherena Vermette.
- 2021 Oct 14
New York City's Newest Tiny Store Opens
A bookstore-in-a-bus has begun roaming the streets of the Bronx.
Virginia Bookstore Is On the Market
Chop Suey Books in Richmond is up for sale.
Pennsylvania Store Is On the Move
Watershed Books in Brookville, open for a year, is moving to a new location.
- 2021 Oct 13
From the Guardian
The Guardian's view on children's books: take them seriously.
From School Library Journal
Supply Chain Disruptions Plague Book Publishing, Impact Libraries.
From Hollywood Insider
The Rise and Fall of Young Adult Dystopian Adaptation Franchises.
From Deadline
Enola Holmes Actor Louis Partridge to Star in Film Adaptation of Claire McFall's Ferryman.
From BBC News
Michael Rosen wins children's poetry award after battling Covid-19.
From the Guardian
Winnie-the-Pooh Poohsticks bridge sold for £131k to Sussex landowner.
From Brightly
Let’s Stop Labeling Books as Boy Books or Girl Books.
From Book Riot
The Legacy of The Baby-Sitters Club.
From Romper
14 Picture Books Starring Girl Characters from Around the World.
From Book Riot
YA Books Dealing with Addiction.
From Romper
15 Books for Kids Who Love Pirates.
From Book Riot
Truly Terrifying Books for Fearless Middle Grade Readers.
From Literary Hub
The 10 Best Goosebumps Covers, Ranked.
Michigan Loses a Bookstore
The Book Joint in Traverse City is closing.
Texas Store Promotes Banned Books
Katy Budget Books in Katy is defying a local school board that has banned books by Jerry Craft for promoting critical race theory.
Maine's Newest Bookstore Is a Hit
Neighborhood Books has opened in Presque Isle and is finding early success.
- 2021 Oct 12
Tattered Cover Expands Again
Colorado's largest independent bookstore will open a location next year in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs.
Indiana Gets a New Bookstore
Your Brother's Bookstore has opened in Evansville.
- 2021 Oct 08
Manhattan Welcomes New Bookstore
Pillow-Cat Books has opened in New York City, offering books and a pet store.
- 2021 Oct 07
Texas Is Getting a New Bookstore
Wild Lark Books, a new independent bookstore, is opening in Lubbock in November.
Saturday Celebrates Aussie Stores
This Saturday is Love Your Bookshop Day in Australia, a day promoting independent bookstores in the country.
Bookstore Opens in Boston Seaport
A new outlet of Porter Square Books in the Boston Seaport development is part of a larger literary hub that includes offices for Grub Street and Mass Poetry.
Connecticut Store Helps Families
Bennett's Books of Deep River is giving away books to low-income famlies.
Books Are My Bag Shortlist Announced
The authors shortlisted by U.K. booksellers for this year's Books Are My Bag Readers Awards have been announced, with the public voting for the winners.
- 2021 Oct 06
From NBC News
Texas school district pulls books by acclaimed author Jerry Craft amid critical race theory claims.
From Entertainment Weekly
Rick Riordan's next Percy Jackson book will be co-written by Mark Oshiro, and will focus on the son of Hades and his boyfriend, the son of Apollo.
From the Hollywood Reporter
Star Trek, Dr. Seuss Mashup Dispute Ends After 5-Year Legal Journey.
From Salon
Teaching students to think has become a risky proposition: A climate of disinformation in students' home lives is making it harder to teach critical thinking.
From Reason
Are These Wyoming Library Books Obscene?
From Literary Hub
On Babar: Model of Integration or Crumbling Myth?
From NPR
How reading aloud can help you bond with your kids and make them better readers.
From CNET
Forget Disney. Author Soman Chainani thinks of fairy tales as 'survival guides to life.'
From People
Paul McCartney Takes on New Adventures in Picture Book Sequel Grandude's Green Submarine.
From BuzzFeed
16 LGBTQIA+ Young Adult Novels to Devour This Fall.
From the Washington Post
23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf.
From Book Riot
20 Awesome Audiobooks for Kids.
From Parents
Books About Kindness to Add to Your Kid's Library.
From Brightly
Witchy YA Books Sure to Put a Spell on You.
From Brightly
Hauntingly Good Ghost Stories for Tweens.
From Romper
31 Halloween Children’s Books to Read in October.
From Romper
12 Fun, Festive Picture Books About Pumpkins.
From Pure Wow
The 24 Best (and Only a Little Spooky) Halloween Books for Kids.
From Book Riot
10 Halloween Board Books for Babies.
- 2021 Oct 05
The Greatest
It turns out that the late heavyweight champion and all-time boxing GOAT, Muhammad Ali, was great for yet another reason. The Ali estate just sold a trove of dozens of drawings and sketches, and a painting by the great one, which were sold for more than $1 million.
Manga Rules
Eric Margolis, a writer and translator based in Japan, takes a deep, informative, and fascinating dive into manga, Japanese comics, and the medium’s ever-growing popularity, explosive sales growth in North America and around the world, and the many reasons why it’s so popular.
In Honor of Samuel R. Delany
CatStone Books, a nonprofit publisher devoted promoting diversity in speculative fiction, is launching the annual Samuel R. Delany Fellowship with a $10,000 stipend that will awarded to an author writing speculative fiction from a community that has been marginalized. This can include authors of color, LGBT+ authors, female authors, authors with disabilities, and authors living an immigrant experience. The Fellowship includes mentorship with a CatStone boardmember and additional resources. Applications for the Samuel R. Delany Fellowship begin annually May 1 and must be submitted by October 31. The recipient of the fellowship will be announced on December 15.
Poe FTW
During a serious bout with depression, writer Catherine Baab-Muguira began rereading Edgar Allan Poe. The result of that redisovery is her debut book, Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History’s Least Likely Self-Help Guru, out now from Running Press. The Millions’ Benjamin Morris interviews her and writes: “Drawing insights on work, love, ambition, and legacy from Poe’s blazing dumpster fire of a life, she concludes that the surest way to thrive is to sabotage everything you can get your mitts on, then build something new and totally novel out of the wreckage.”
- 2021 Oct 04
From the New York Times
‘The Beginning of the Snowball’: Supply-Chain Snarls Reach Publishing.
From the Associated Press
Wyoming librarians under fire for books about sex, LGBTQ.
From the New York Times
How Students Fought a Book Ban and Won, for Now.
From the Guardian
HarperCollins U.K. to remove Chinese character from David Walliams book after criticism.
From Deadline
Disney+ greenlights American Born Chinese, an action-comedy series based on the 2006 graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang.
From CBC Radio
'The stories will be the last thing to go': Robert Munsch reflects on his legacy as one of Canada's great storytellers as he reveals he has dementia.
From Literary Hub
This seven-year-old is advocating for more disability-centered books in libraries.
From NPR
Dave Eggers on how the I, Witness series makes world events visceral for young readers.
From the Associated Press
Seth Meyers to Publish Debut Children's Book.
From the New York Times
“How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself.”
From HuffPost
Bridge from Winnie the Pooh Series to Be Auctioned.
From BuzzFeed
These 21 Young Adult Books Were Popular in the '90s and Are Still Relevant Today.
- 2021 Oct 01
Maine Bookseller Talks Work-Life Balance
Josh Christie, co-owner of Print: A Bookstore in Portland, discusses his dual career as a bookseller and author.
Mexican Chain Tries Disruptive Marketing
Librerias Gandhi, one of Mexico's largest chains, has opened an account on OnlyFans.com to sell adult content.
Feminist Store Is Popular in Scotland
Rare Birds Book Store, a feminist bookstore, has opened in Edinburgh.
- 2021 Sep 30
Manhattan Gets a New Bookstore
P&T Knitwear Bookstore is opening on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in November, with Julie Wernersbach as general manager.
Upstate New York's Newest Bookstore
Diamond Hollow Books is opening this weekend in Andes, N.Y., west of Albany.
Dutch Bookstores Hit by Ransomwear
More than 130 bookstores in the Netherlands were struck by a ransomwear attack that prevented them from accessing their databases.
- 2021 Sep 29
From NPR
During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means to Challenge Texts.
From Women and Hollywood
Series Adaptation of Judy Blume’s Forever from Mara Brock Akil in the Works at Netflix.
From Book Riot
The Canon of Children's Literature: Does It Exist? Should It?
From the New York Times
The I Survived Series is a Survivor on the Best-Seller List.
From AP
Governor Gavin Newsom writes a children’s book about boy with dyslexia.
From NPR
How an Author and Illustrator Adapted Nina Simone's Complicated Life Story for Kids.
From People
Ciara and Russell Wilson Want to Inspire Kids to 'Pursue Their Dreams' with New Picture Book.
From AP
GLAAD leader and rock star wife co-author picture book All Moms.
From Vulture
J. Smith-Cameron Answers Every Question We Have About Harriet the Spy.
From Crime Reads
YA Mysteries: The Prep School Edition.
From Book Riot
12 Indigenous Illustrators You Should Know.
From Brightly
YA Stories to Inspire Teens to Be Grateful.
From Book Riot
All Aboard for the Best Train Books for Kids.
From Romper
19 Children’s Books About Cats.
From Book Riot
10 Magical Middle Grade Reads.
Washington State Gets a New Bookstore
Parable, a new Black-owned, woman-owned bookstore, has opened in Tacoma. It is named for Octavia Butler's novel 'Parable of the Sower.'
- 2021 Sep 27
From USA Today
Banned Books Week: defending 30 challenged books, including several classic children’s books.
From the AP
Scholastic and James Patterson team up on a new literacy initiative.
From the New Yorker
Could the Teen Magazine Rise Again?
From the AP
Sonia Sotomayor's picture book Just Help! is coming in January.
From Entertainment Weekly
Chris Colfer reveals which character in his new book, A Tale of Sorcery, is openly gay—and why it's so important.
From Good Morning America
Steph and Ayesha Curry Share 10 must-read children’s books.
From Book Riot
10 Books Millennial Kids Read That Could Never Be Published Today.
From Book Riot
12 TV Shows Based on YA Books.
- 2021 Sep 24
Syrian Bookstore Is Closing
Damascus's well-known Nobel bookstore is closing. It had been open since the 1970s.
- 2021 Sep 23
Black Bookstore in Tennessee Helps Kids
Demoir Books and Things in Memphis opened this summer and is now helping young authors find an audience.
L.A. Stores Score with Social Media
TikTok has driven customers to Mystery Pier, a used bookstore in Los Angeles run by an octogenarian ex-actor.
Washington Store Adds Charm to Town
When Joie Des Livres opened in tiny Seabrook, west of Seattle, more than two years ago, it immediately brought a bit of color to the town.
- 2021 Sep 22
From the Guardian
Netflix acquires works of Roald Dahl as it escalates streaming wars.
From People
Amanda Gorman Hopes to Remind Kids of Their 'Power to Change the World' with Debut Picture Book.
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