Last night the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2023 awards – here are the list of winners below: 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards Winners NBCC Award for... Read more »
ALA reports record spike in book titles challenged in 2023 Mar 14 2024 The American Library Association announced today that the number of unique titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023... Read more »
More books were banned in 2023 in US schools and libraries than any other year for which records have been kept, the American Library Association (ALA) reported on Thursday. Many of the... Read more »
The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at... Read more »
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s YA book Red Riding Hood was a New York Times #1 bestseller that was published worldwide in 38 editions and 15 languages, and her brand-spanking-new novel Alice Sadie Celine was... Read more »
Bookish Oscar winners Mar 11 2024 At last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, several movies based on books or with book connections took home Oscars. Shelf Awareness rounds up the major category bookish... Read more »
The American Library Association Releases ‘Book Résumés’ for Banned Books Feb 21 2024 The American Library Association’s Unite Against Book Bans initiative has unveiled a new free resource—a collection of “book résumés.”
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The UK is experiencing a boom in book clubs, according to new data from event listing companies. Book club listings on the ticketing site Eventbrite increased by 350% between 2019 and 2023... Read more »
“Bitter Crop,” “Our Moon,” “The Adversary,” and “Life on Earth.” Source link Read more »