The inside story of the 25-year, $8 million heist of maps, books, and artwork from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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Mary Trump’s book accuses the US President of embracing "cheating as a way of life"
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The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing anti-slavery letters
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At ninety-nine years old, Al Jaffee says goodbye to MAD Magazine
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announce the winners of the 55th annual Nebula Awards
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We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics
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Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book.
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Dolly Parton will read children's books at bedtime on social media
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Book review: Hoover
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Publisher drops Woody Allen's book after Ronan Farrow objects and employees walk out
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People go to the library twice as often as they go to the movies
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The New York Public Library has calculated its most checked-out books of all time
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A history of buying books onto the bestseller list
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Nipsey Hussle was a bookworm. Now Black men are finding inspiration in what he read
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Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
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Ten must-read crime books set in the American West
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland
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How to live like Jane Austen
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Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
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Snowden in the Labyrinth
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Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
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Dolly Parton's ‘Books From Birth’ has now delivered one million free children's books to DC kids
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Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Jesmyn Ward about writing fiction, reparations, and the legacy of slavery
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Are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
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'We're Really Like Them': Somali Book Authors Write About Experience Settling In Green Bay
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“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry—and tore a family apart.
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Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
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How the hell has Danielle Steel managed to write 179 books?
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How Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! became a ubiquitous (and cliché) graduation gift
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Murder and the missing briefcase: The real story behind Harper Lee’s lost true crime book
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Four books by Asian American authors republished as Penguin Classics
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James Patterson donates $1.25 million to classroom libraries
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Romance and erotica is the top revenue-generating literary category in the US, accounting for more than half of all mass-market paperbacks sold
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Campaigners hail 'seismic shift' in diversity of US children's books
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How the New York Public Library fills its shelves (and why some books don't make the cut)
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Don Winslow: Think of it this way. Mexico has a US drug problem
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Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House
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$12 million gift opens new chapter for New York Public Library’s treasures
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There's a theory that QAnon's posting is based on an old Italian novel
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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s book award over ‘Little House’ depictions of Native Americans
I am shamelessly stealing this from the front page of /r/Books, where it has been locked due to shallow and uncivil discussion. I assume we can do better here. "Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name...
I am shamelessly stealing this from the front page of /r/Books, where it has been locked due to shallow and uncivil discussion. I assume we can do better here.
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Straight Man by Richard Russo - An overlooked classic of American literature (2011)
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US Federal prisons abruptly cancel policy that made it harder, costlier for inmates to get books
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