- 2025 Sep 05
CIBA Rolls Out Most Anticipated Lists
The Canadian Independent Booksellers Association has launched its inaugural “Booksellers’ List,” a marketing initiative highlighting Canadian indie bookstores’ most anticipated titles each season.
Illinois Gets a New Bookshop
Empire Bookstore has opened in downtown Kewanee.
Spotlight on Thriving Texas Bookstore
Talking Animals Books, the first and only independent bookstore in Grapevine, made its debut in 2023 and opened its second location late last year.
New Bookshop to Land in Illinois
Matchmaker Books will open in Highland Park next weekend.
N.Y. Bookstore Turns Up the Heat
Lit Actually opened this past summer and is Baldwinsville’s first romantasy bookshop.
Washington Bookshop Has a New Owner
Longtime owner Nancy Katica transferred ownership of Vashon Bookshop on Vashon Island to longtime employee Carrie Van Buren.
- 2025 Sep 04
Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist
Barbara Demick and Yiyun Li are among the 12 authors longlisted for this year’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
New Bookshop Lands in Ohio
Blue Dog Books has opened in Springboro.
Aficionado Award Winner
India’s Seagull Books has won this year’s Aficionado Award, presented by Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Ribbon Cutting in New Jersey
The Cranford Bookstore will host its grand opening in Cranford this weekend.
- 2025 Sep 03
From The 74
Why Are So Few Kids Reading for Pleasure?
From the Associated Press
Stephen King reimagines Hansel and Gretel with Maurice Sendak's unpublished drawings.
From People
Young Sheldon's Raegan Revord Is a Teen TV Star. Now, They're a Teen Author Too.
From People
Step Aside Bitmojis! This Year, Bookmojis Are Encouraging Kids to Read—And Have Fun Too.
San Diego Bookshop Feels the Love
Mysterious Galaxy offers low-cost weddings for LGBTQ+ couples.
Heartland Booksellers Award Winners
John Green and Nghi Vo are among the five winners of this year’s Heartland Booksellers Awards, presented by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
Winners of the Mass Book Awards
Jedediah Berry and Kellie Carter Jackson are among the seven winners of this year’s Mass Book Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Pop-Up Bookshop Lands in Oklahoma
The Tennessee-based Lost & Bound pop-up has opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Oklahoma City.
- 2025 Sep 02
2025 Cundill History Prize Shortlist
Emily Callaci and Greg Grandin are among the eight shortlisted authors for this year’s Cundill History Prize, presented by McGill University in Montreal.
Ohio Bookstore to Relocate
Visible Voice Books will move from Cleveland to Ohio City.
L.A. Bookstore Draws Protests
After an employee was fired for booking an event with a Palestinian author, activists demonstrated outside of Chevalier’s Books.
- 2025 Aug 29
Carla Gray Scholarship Apps to Open
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation will open applications for its Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller/Activists on September 1.
Bookstore–Wine Bar Opens in Detroit
The Black woman–owned Sip-N-Read Book Bar opened its doors on August 27.
New Bookshop to Open in Iowa
Sisters Books & Nooks is slated to open in Cedar Rapids on September 9.
Romance Bookshop Comes to NorCal
The Velvet Chapter opened earlier this month in Petaluma.
Oklahoma Gets a New Bookstore
Amethyst & Ink Books in Lawton will host its grand opening on September 6.
20th Anniversary Killer Nashville Awards
The crime writing conference announced its picks for best book and best manuscript of 2024 last weekend in Franklin, Tenn.
- 2025 Aug 28
Arizona Bookshop Opens Second Store
Stacks Book Club in Oro Valley is opening a second location on Tucson’s Sunshine Mile.
New Bookstore Opens in Virginia
Commerce Street Books has set up shop inside the Doyle Hotel in Charlottesville.
Las Vegas’s First Mobile Bookstore
The Book Shelf has been traveling around the Las Vegas Valley since 2024.
- 2025 Aug 27
From Publishers Weekly
Layoffs Hit Bloomsbury US Children's Division.
From the New York Times
Denmark Wants Kids to Read More. Will a Tax Cut Help?
From Bridge Michigan
Legal battle erupts between Michigan school librarian and activist parent.
From the New Yorker
Celebrity picture books are having a moment. Are these the stories our children deserve?
From the Washington Post
Why Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, at 50, remains a classic.
From the Los Angeles Times
Meet the L.A. sisters ushering in a new era of YA literature.
From National Public Radio
NPR polled listeners on the books that they read in high school that broadened their horizons.
From the New Yorker
As Tove Jansson's Moomins turn 80, new generations are discovering a world where "trolling" means weathering life's many anxieties.
From Literary Hub
In Praise of CliffsNotes in the Age of AI: Reconsidering What Teachers Used to Dismiss as a Shortcut.
From the Bookseller
Moira Buffini's "captivating" dystopian debut novel Songlight wins YA Book Prize 2025 in U.K.
From National Public Radio
Squelch squerch! Stumble trip! Tiptoe!—We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
From the New York Times
Annie Barrows chooses her favorite children's books about siblings.
Geraldine Brooks Wins LoC Prize
The Memorial Days author will be awarded the 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival on September 6.
Kirkus Prize Finalists Announced
Derrick Barnes, Allegra Goodman, and Imani Perry are among the finalists for this year’s Kirkus Prizes, presented by Kirkus Reviews.
- 2025 Aug 26
Professional Programming at NYCC ’25
Comics industry programming at this year’s New York Comic Con will include a four-hour drill-down on comic book retailing, a full day of programming for librarians and educators, and more.
‘Call Me By Your Name’ Goes Graphic
Louisa Joyner at Faber acquired world all-language rights to Sarah Maxwell’s graphic novel adaptation of Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman from Claire Paterson Conrad at Janklow & Nesbit UK.
Ignatz Awards Finalists
Michael D. Kennedy and Connie Meyers are among the 50 nominees across 10 categories for the 2025 Ignatz Awards. Winners will be announced this September at this year’s Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Md.
RIP Nancy Burton
The Comics Journal celebrates the life and work of the renowned underground cartoonist, who recently died at 84.
Alien Books Addresses Transphobia
The publisher has issued a statement regarding transphobic dialogue in Valiant Beyond (Bloodshot #1), reports Graphic Policy.
Scholastic Bets Big on Telgemeier
Comic book creator Raina Telgemeier’s memoir Facing Feelings has landed a 200,000 print run from Scholastic Graphix, according to Bleeding Cool.
‘Black Mirror’ Gets Graphic
The U.K.-based indie publisher Twisted Comics will adapt the Netflix series into a graphic novel, per Forbes.
AI Protest at Canada Con
At FanExpo Canada in Toronto, artists and fans demonstrated against an AI portrait booth, attracting a police presence, per Bleeding Cool.
Comics Aren’t Just for Fun
CBC explores how comics and graphic novels can introduce otherwise reading-averse children to literature.
AI Comes for Comics
Animation magazine considers the vast trove of manga and anime IP that has been scraped by generative AI.
Double the Chainsaw Man
A new Chainsaw Man anime will air alongside the upcoming compilation film, which will premiere worldwide on Crunchyroll next month, reports ScreenRant.
The Legacy of Old Master Q
PostMag looks at how Alfonso Wong’s beloved comic strip still resonates with generations of Hong Kong comics fans.
Bookshop Hits the Road in Tennessee
Nashville-based Shadowed Pages Bookshop has been selling books at trivia nights, breweries, and other community events across the state.
English Teacher Opens Wisconsin Bookshop
Little Bay Books has opened in downtown Ashland.
California Bookshop Supports Library
Logos Books in Davis has raised thousands of dollars in support of the local library.
- 2025 Aug 25
North Carolina’s Newest Indie Bookshop
Chapter House Books opened this past weekend in downtown Fayetteville.
Mobile Bookshop Rolls Through Wisconsin
Loom & Lore Bookmobile has hit the road in Green Bay and is traveling throughout the state’s northeast regions.
- 2025 Aug 22
Bookshop.org, Two Trees Support Binc
The joint donation of $5,000 will go toward the Book Industry Charitable Foundation’s mission of assisting booksellers and comic shop employees in need.
Malibu’s Last Indie Bookshop Struggles
Malibu Village Books is fighting to survive amid natural disasters and changing demographics.
Horror Bookshop Creeps into Brooklyn
The Twisted Spine will open soon in Williamsburg.
Buenos Aires Comes to D.C.
Inspired by the Argentine city, Flor. Coffee + Books is opening in Georgetown today.
- 2025 Aug 21
Romance Bookshop Flutters into Idaho
Hearts on Fire Books will open in Boise this October.
Ohio Town to Receive First Bookshop
Lit and Lore Bookstore will open this fall in Fremont, which currently doesn’t have a bookshop.
South Carolina Bookshop Relocates
As the Page Turns plans to move from downtown Travelers Rest.
- 2025 Aug 20
From the New York Times
How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend.
From the New Republic
How a Group of Michigan Parents Defeated Anti-Trans MAGA Activists.
From the Tennessean
Controversial policy banning transgender books fails for third time in Tennessee.
From Elle
Why Adult Women Love The Summer I Turned Pretty.
From the South China Morning Post
Her agent didn't understand, so it was shelved. Now, Abigail Hing Wen is releasing The Vale, a decade-old story about a child in an AI world.
From NPR
Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream.
From the Guardian
Andy Griffiths: 'I think it's a pity that reading is being lost through neglect.'
From the Associated Press
Fans celebrate the 80th birthday of the Moomins, Finland's most lovable literary cartoon family.
From Literary Hub
A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear.
From NPR
Did you love Holes growing up? Good news, Louis Sachar is still writing for you.
From the Conversation
Quentin Blake and Me at the Lowry: the magic touch of Britain's best-loved children's illustrator.
From Book Riot
How Wordless Picture Books Turn Kids into Readers.
Raz-Shumaker Prize Winners
Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hicks have won this year’s Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Prizes, presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s national literary quarterly.
Monica Potts Wins Booker Worthen Prize
Potts’s 2023 memoir, The Forgotten Girls, has won this year’s Booker Worthen Literary Prize, presented by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Kentucky’s Newest Bookshop
Heathen’s and Co. Booksellers is gearing up for its grand opening in Madisonville.
- 2025 Aug 19
Bookshop ‘Sequel’ Comes to Texas
Talking Animals Books will open a second location in Grapevine, this time with a full-service coffee bar, wine tasting room, and event space.
Spotlight on N.Y.C. Bookstore-Bar Combo
Bibliotheque in SoHo offers books alongside a wine list inspired by literature.
Queer Bookshop Says ‘I Do’
All She Wrote Books in Somerville, Mass., will host a one-day wedding marathon for LGBTQ couples amid fears of SCOTUS overturning marriage equality.
Books Get Yummier in Idaho
Cooks and Books in Meridian offers cookbooks and cooking classes.
- 2025 Aug 18
Ignatz Awards Announce 2025 Finalists
Michael D. Kennedy and Connie Meyers are among the 50 nominees across 10 categories for this year’s Ignatz Awards.
Central N.J.’s First Romance Bookshop
Charmed & Bound Books will open in Flemington this fall.
Polari Prize Hits Pause
Following a mass boycott over the inclusion of self-described TERF John Boyne, the U.K.’s Polari Prize is currently on hold for internal reviews and panel restructuring.
Bookshop-Cafe Combo to Open in Missouri
The Plot Twist Cafe will open in downtown Maryville this fall.
Southern Authors Talk (Book)Shop
Kristen Arnett and Mary Alice Monroe, among other authors, have compiled seven bookstores throughout the south that “every book lover should visit.”
- 2025 Aug 15
First-Ever Founders Historian Laureate
Robert A. Caro has been named as the first-ever Founders Historian Laureate by the New York Historical.
Kansas Bookshop Faces the Fire
Monstera’s Books in Overland Park suffered smoke, water, and fire damage due to a blaze spreading from the restaurant next door.
California Shop Reopens After AC Trouble
Best Bookstore in Palm Springs has relocated after weeks of air conditioning issues.
A New Bookshop for Pennsylvania
Wandering Soul will open in downtown Sharon next week.
- 2025 Aug 14
Romantasy Bookshop Comes to California
The Velvet Bookshop has opened in downtown Petaluma.
Kukula Award Finalists
Dan Kois and Emily Wilson are among the 10 finalists for this year’s Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, presented by Washington Monthly.
S.C. Bookshop Seeks Support to Relocate
As the Page Turns in Greenville County has launched a GoFundMe to help with moving costs.
Bookshop-Cafe to Land in N.Y.
Protagonist Books and Coffee will open in Ithaca after Labor Day.
