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Start off Your Year with New Horror

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Old Soul by Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, January 28) Here’s another new horror novel focused on grief, and this one kicks off when two strangers meet in Osaka airport. Both Jake and Mariko lost someone important to them, and before their deaths, they both saw the same woman, even though they were 6,000 miles
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January 3, 2025 ‹ Literary Hub

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1895, Oscar Wilde’s comedy An Ideal Husband premieres at the Haymarket Theatre in London.  Jamaica Kincaid talks to Sandra Guzmán about colonialism, gardening, and worshipping her plants. | Lit Hub In Conversation Article continues after advertisement “As the politics of anger and fear return to
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January 2, 2025 ‹ Literary Hub

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Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member: Because Books Matter For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for a donation, you’ll get an ad-free reading experience, exclusive editors’ picks, book giveaways, and our coveted Joan Didion Lit
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The Best Books Coming Out in January

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused
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January’s Best Book Club Books

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused
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Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024 Amazon editors made the impossible selection of just 10 books that defined
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Works Entering the Public Domain in 2025

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely
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The It Books of 2024

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What a year it’s been! Martyr! came out of the gate in January as the year’s hottest debut with major book award potential, and while it didn’t win the NBA, it made the shortlist and just about every
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10 of the Most Popular Bookish News Stories of 2024

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that if you leave a content creator alone with Google Analytics during one of the quietest weeks of the year, they’re going to go spelunking. Presented in no particular order, here are 10 of the news stories Book Riot readers read and shared the most in 2024. Today In Books
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