We’re increasingly getting our narrative fix from short videos. But, like snacking on junk food, it won’t nourish usSummertime, and the reading is easy. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. Holidays were made for sinking blissfully into a pile of books: for long, hot afternoons swinging in hammocks or basting on the sand, gleefully inhaling trashy beach reads or the Booker prize longlist. Finally, we have time to read, plus the urgent need to justify what is essentially two weeks of lying down by looking at least vaguely busy.Yet, by the pool this year, I saw a striking number of people scrolling on their phones instead, some with an unopened paperback lying forlornly by the sun lounger. Not for nothing, an author friend pointed out to me recently, did Instagram Stories get its name. Reels contain just enough of a miniature plot to satisfy the human need for narrative twists, even if they are only a few seconds long, while the most successful influencers have essentially turned themselves into fictionalised characters in their own long-running minor drama. But grazing on these bite-size stories is the literary equivalent of snacking on junk: just filling enough to put you off a proper novel-length meal, but somehow never quite satisfying, and leaving the addicted reader irritably craving more.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, June 8, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, June 1, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Who doesn’t love dark academia? The malevolent architecture and forced proximity cut with the youth and ambition that sets it all aflame? Ever since chancing upon a marked-up paperback of The Secret History in the late ’90s, I’ve been obsessed with dark academia and all the micro-genres... Continue reading at Electric Literature
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Ocean Vuong’s second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, debuts at #2 on our hardcover fiction list and is the newest Oprah’s Book Club pick. Plus Kennedy Ryan’s third Skyland romance, Can’t Get Enough, lands at #2 on our trade paperback list, and Joe Abercrombie lightens his usual grimdark fare... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The African American Literature Book Club has launched the BLK Bestseller List, showcasing the bestselling books by Black authors going back 16 months. It consists of monthly data from Circana Bookscan on the top 20 hardcover and paperback fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, as well as... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 25, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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In February, trade paperback and hardback formats declined 1.4 percent and 4.9 percent respectively over the same month last year. The post AAP’s StatShot: Some US Market Slippage in February appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 18, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Nomad Editions will launch in November with pocket-sized redesigns of three HarperVia bestsellers. The publisher described Nomad as a response to the decline of mass market paperbacks, taking inspiration from Japanese pocket novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Ana Huang tops our trade paperback list and has the #1 book in the country with King of Envy, book five in her spicy Kings of Sin billionaire romance series. Plus Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures, a handsell favorite, gets its paperback release, and Natasha Wing’s Night Before... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 4, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Read your way into a great batch of new YA books hitting shelves in hardcover and in paperback this week. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Shelby Van Pelt’s novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is available now in paperback from Ecco, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, routines, and more. * Who do you most wish would read your book? In Remarkably Bright Creatures, my main character, Tova, has a group of friends... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 27, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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In the 1960s and ’70s, his leggy femmes fatales beckoned from paperback covers and posters for movies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “Thunderball.” Continue reading at The New York Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 13, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The paperback arm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux will reissue all 75 novels in Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret series, published between 1931 and 1972, as well as 30 of his standalone psychological novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 6, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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