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Fall 2016 Adult Announcements: All Our Coverage

The editors have selected more than 700 adult titles for this feature (fall children’s announcements will appear in the July 18, 2016 issue) in anticipation of their attracting attention and, of course, generating sales. Our mission is to offer booksellers and librarians a helping hand in finding books to order and promote in the upcoming […]

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Introducing Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes” for Books | Literary Hub

Book Marks will showcase critics from the most important and active outlets of literary journalism in America, aggregating reviews from over 70 sources—newspapers, magazines, and websites—and averaging them into a letter grade, as well as linking back to their source. Each book’s cumulative grade functions as both a general critical assessment, and, more significantly, as

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5 Nonfiction Big Books I Loved

Related Posts: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved 6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread 6 Big Books on My Reading List 2 Big Books That Disappointed Me Since I read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, it’s not surprising that all of my earlier Big Books lists have included only novels.

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Last Week’s Links

Thriving at Age 70 and Beyond From Jane E. Brody, long-time health writer for the New York Times: A recently published book, “70 Candles! Women Thriving in Their 8th Decade,” inspired me to take a closer look at how I’m doing as I approach 75 and how I might make the most of the years

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6 Big Books on My Reading List

Related Posts: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved 6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread Like most of you, I have big, ambitious plans for my future reading. Here are the Big Books that currently reside on my TBR shelves. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy paperback, 1392 pages   Isn’t this

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Reading Recommendations for Women’s History Month

9 WOMEN TO WATCH IN 2016 A list of “up-and-coming female writers [who] will have readers talking in 2016.” 115 READING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOOKS BY WOMEN From Bookriot’s Amanda Nelson: I jumped on the “One Book/One Like” Twitter bandwagon and decided to only recommend books by women for every like the tweet got. I made

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33 Life-Changing Books in Honor of International Women’s Day | Literary Hub

In honor of International Women’s Day, Women’s History Month, and all women everywhere, we asked the all-volunteer staff at VIDA to tell us about the books that changed their lives. Ran… Source: 33 Life-Changing Books in Honor of International Women’s Day | Literary Hub

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6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread

Related Post: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved While scanning my bookshelves for Big Books I have read, I also found six that I have already read but want to read again. You’d think that once through a Big Book would be enough, but in fact Big Books contain so much that they

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10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved

Not too long ago, in the book section at Target, I overheard a woman say to her companion, “I stay away from big books.” They walked away, so I didn’t get to hear any more of the conversation, but it made me think about big books. I can imagine many reasons someone might offer for

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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books Bowie’s top 100 book list spans decades, from Richard Wright’s raw 1945 memoir Black Boy to Susan Jacoby’s 2008 analysis of U.S. anti-intellectualism in The Age of American Unreason. his list shows a lot of love to American writers, from the aforementioned to Truman Capote, Hubert Selby, Jr., Saul Bellow,

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