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The Best Gifts for Readers 2025
It’s the end of another year, and the gift-giving pressure is real. Some of us are shopping for loved ones, some are prepping for the annual book-club exchange, and some are coping with the stress in the most honorable way possible: buying gifts for ourselves. I salute this strategy—treat yourself! I celebrate Christmas, and with […]
A Legend in the Baking A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley is $2.99! This is book two in the Sugar Blitz series and came out last November. Maybe grab a sweet treat if you’re reading this one. After accidentally going viral on social media, a cupcake-baking football player gets assistance from a social media maven—and his […]
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Fantasy, a Thriller, & More
Flirting with Disaster Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar is $1.99! This was released earlier this year. Shana enjoyed Kumar’s debut and picked this for Hide Your Wallet. She needs a divorce from her husband—but a hurricane threatens to dredge up their stormy, passionate past in this sizzling reimagining of Sweet Home Alabama from the bestselling author of Say […]
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Cover Snark: Oh Hey, Katy Perry!
Welcome back to Cover Snark! Sarah: This is both neat and also awkwardly posed? Kiki: I love the idea of this cover, but it is just so obvious that these two people are not organically in the same photo They’re looking beyond each other? Sarah: They’re touching but don’t seem to be connected. Tara: It’s […]
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Reader, I Divorced Him
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Reader, I Divorced Him In Book Forum, Hermione Hoby considers the stuffed shelf that is the contemporary novel/memoir of divorce. And while she doesn’t inspect All Fours directly, much, if not all, of her thinking […]
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The Biggest Bookish News of the Week
Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. Settle into your Sunday and catch up! Say Goodbye to This Kindle Feature The next time someone laughs at me for holding onto my Columbo: The Complete Series DVD set, I’ll loan them my copy of Just One More Thing and […]
The finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prize were just announced Wednesday. The list is 61 nominees long and includes all manner of screenwriters, award-winning authors, and, yes, actors. The Audiobook Production category was just introduced to the awards last year, and this year, its inclusion means a whole slew of actors have […]
YA anthologies are some of the coolest books out there, and they still remain some of the least read and appreciated. But there is literally something for every single kind of reader when it comes to the YA anthology—especially if you’re looking at anthologies that bring together an array of writers. Some of these collections […]
The Rook RECOMMENDED: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley $2.99! Carrie loves the series, especially the sequel Stiletto. It’s urban fantasy set in London with a badass cast of characters. But some found the book to have a lot of info-dumping. Have you read The Rook? “The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy […]