BookTok influencer Jack Edwards motivates himself with reading goals – and he’s not alone. Authors and avid readers discuss the rise of metrics, and reveal how many books they finished last year Every ...

A teacher at a Nashville elementary school claimed his job was threatened after he refused to read a book about same-sex marriage to his young students. According to the legal group First Liberty ...

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Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 story about 11-year-old New Yorker Harriet Welsch is the book I read again and again as a young girl. Smart, funny, and fiercely independent, Harriet confidently marched to her ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

After years and years of holding out, I never thought I’d see the day that Amazon would voluntarily loosen its grip on the Kindle ecosystem. But here we are: Last week, the biggest online bookseller ...

What’s the plan – you do have one, right? No, not one for your estate or your budget or your life choices – sure, fine, do those too – but considering the purview of this newsletter, I’m asking about ...

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You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. With 2026 only a few days away, many are whipping out the Notes app on their phones to jot down goals for the new year. One of them may be to read more.

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the ...