New Historical Fiction for Your Book Club

These historical fiction books are set during the Aztec empire, 1900s Manchuria, Meiji-era Japan, and more. Which eras do you like to rad about the most? Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

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2025 Memoirs to Read With Your Book Club

Activist, Spy, and Icon Josephine Baker's memoir, a bookish memoir about mental illness and identity by a literature professor, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

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The Year of the Audiobook

Time to take a peek at what’s been happening in Library Land. We have audiobook news, January book club picks, ... Continue reading at Book Riot

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New YA Book Releases This Week, January 15, 2025

From compelling historical fiction to high-speed thrillers, dive into this week's new YA releases. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Jenna Bush Hager Teams with Random House for Joint Venture

The 'Today' show cohost and creator of the Read with Jenna book club has reached an agreement with the Random House Publishing Group through which books signed by Hager will be released by different RHPG imprints, beginning in October. Hager Bush told 'PW' that stepping into the role of... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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In These January Historical Fiction Releases, Real Historical Figures Reign Supreme

"These books feature a lot of real historical figures—something I always love in my historical fiction." What kind of historical fiction do you love? Continue reading at Book Riot

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Book Club Picks for January 2025

Read with Jenna and Barnes & Noble spotlight Emma Knight's debut novel, Oprah's Book Club celebrates the 20th anniversary of Eckhart Tolle's 'A New Earth,' and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Jewish Life in Harbin, China: A Conversation with Jean Hoffmann Lewanda by Susan Blumberg-Kason

Jewish Life in Harbin, China: A Conversation with Jean Hoffmann Lewanda by Susan Blumberg-Kason Interviews [email protected] Tue, 01/07/2025 - 07:08 Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann LewandaI met the author Jean... Continue reading at World Literature Today

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Jimmy Carter: Poet, Novelist, Memoirist, Philosopher

He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Book Club: Let’s Talk About Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’

This slim novella about one Irishman’s crisis of conscience during the Christmas season is the topic of our December book club discussion. Continue reading at The New York Times

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The Mirror and the Light: the series takes Hilary Mantel’s manifesto for historical fiction to heart

Hilary Mantel stressed she was concerned with depicting the outer world faithfully but her chief concern was her character’s interior drama. This adaptation shows how much she strayed from that Continue reading at The Conversation

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Year-End Reading Recommendations, Book Club Suggestions, and More

We’re getting very, very close to the end of the year, so let’s go out with an explosion of reading ... Continue reading at Book Riot

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This Week’s Bestsellers: December 16, 2024

Dav Pilkey’s 13th Dog Man adventure, ‘Big Jim Begins,’ is the #1 book in the country, and Brandon Sanderson’s ‘Wind and Truth’ takes the #2 spot. Plus Good Morning America, Read with Jenna, and Oprah’s Book Club name their December selections. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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13 Book Club Picks for December 2024, From Oprah to NYPL’s Teen Banned Book Club

It’s been another long year, and ending it with a book club pick sounds like a pretty good choice. Especially ... Continue reading at Book Riot

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All the Bookish News We Covered This Week

Censorship trends, Oprah's new book club podcast, the most popular books of the Goodreads Reading Challenge, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Julia Whelan and the Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024

Golden Voice narrator Julia Whelan joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to tell listeners about narrating Kristin Hannah’s memorable historical fiction audiobook, The Women, one of our picks for Best Fiction of 2024. It’s an emotional story about Vietnam War combat nurses, and Julia details how she... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

The last time I wrote a novel set in what I considered to be the present was 2009-2010. The iPhone had appeared in 2007, but it had nothing to do with my characters, who were poor or old or both and lived on the scrappy outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then, my books have […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Oprah Announces Book Club Pick and a New Podcast

Oprah's Book Club has announced it's 109th pick, and a new podcast in partnership with Starbucks. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 2, 2024

Pack your ereader with today's bounty of excellent deals from historical fiction to nonfiction, dystopian reads to romance, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

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The Most Influential Cookbooks of the Century

25 of the most important cookbooks of the last 100 years, the best historical fiction of 2024, and Martin Scorcese's adaptation plans. Continue reading at Book Riot

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