- 2025 Jun 25
Vermont Bookstore Is On the Move
The Burlington location of Phoenix Books is moving to a new location on Church Street, the city's main shopping thoroughfare.
- 2025 Jun 20
California Bookshop Threatened
Napa Bookmine staffers have received a death threat, an apparent response to an anti-Donald Trump “No Kings” sign that had been on display at the bookstore.
U.K. Carnegie Award Winners
Margaret McDonald and Olivia Lomenech Gill are the respective winners of this year’s Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration, the U.K.’s longest-running awards for children’s and young adult books.
Miami Bookshop Opens on Juneteenth
Roots Bookstore in Liberty City offers books recently banned from the state’s classrooms and school libraries, alongside titles by Indigenous, Hispanic, and local authors.
Bookshop-Cafe Combo Reopens in Chicago
Semicolon Bookstore, which closed to build out a café, reopened this week in the city’s West Town neighborhood.
California Bookshop Owner Dies
Linna Thomas, the owner of Coalesce Bookstore in Morro Bay for more than 50 years, died late last month.
- 2025 Jun 18
Chicago Bookshop Debuts Literacy Program
Da Book Joint has launched the ReadUp summer program in partnership with Reggio’s Pizza, which will offer a free personal pan pizza to K–12 students who read at least three books a month, starting this June.
Leslie Jamison Wins Weston Award
The American author and essayist has received this year’s Weston International Award, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
Mobile Bookshop Rolls Through Delaware
Bad B’s, a mobile bookshop specializing in romance, recently opened in Wilmington.
Mehdi Khawaja Wins Armory Square Prize
Mehdi Khawaja’s translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin’s To Each Their Own Hell has won this year’s Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.
Wisconsin Bookshop Turns 50
A Room of One’s Own, a feminist bookshop in Madison, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer.
Society of Authors Award Winners
Jo Hamya, Ashani Lewis, and Elif Shafak are among this year’s winners of the U.K.’s Society of Authors Awards.
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist
Vajra Chandrasekera and Nalo Hopkinson are among the eight authors shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
- 2025 Jun 17
Romance Bookshop to Land in Connecticut
The owners of the Spice Cabinet, a mobile bookstore run out of a trailer, will open a brick-and-mortar storefront this summer: the Em & Bee Bookish Boutique in Wallingford.
‘Spicy’ Bookstore Comes to Michigan
Pages & Peonies, a bookshop dedicated to ‘spicy’ romance titles, will open this weekend in Walker.
Florida Bookshop to Relocate
Due to a recent zoning change, Inklings Book Shoppe will move from its current location in downtown Lakeland to Dixietown.
- 2025 Jun 16
From Literary Hub
How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America.
From Animation World Network
Not a Box TV Adaptation: A Bunny, Some Cardboard and a Magical World of Adventures.
From the BBC
Roald Dahl's original sketches to be auctioned.
From Book Riot
A Perfect Match: YA Matchmaker-Themed Romances.
From Brightly
Picture Books That Celebrate Caribbean Heritage.
Spotlight on North Carolina Indie
Daughters Coffee & Books in South Durham, offers new and used books alongside a literary-themed cafe menu.
A Literary Treasure Hunt in Oregon
Travel Portland has launched the “Golden Bookmark” treasure hunt, with handcrafted leather golden bookmarks hidden in independent bookstores across the city.
New Indie Opens in Pennsylvania
Lost and Found Bookshop opened in Scranton this past weekend, just days after another bookstore, Friendly Alien Books, also opened in the area.
Indiana Comics Shop Hit by Flood
Secret Headquarters, a comic book store in Evansville, had more than half of its inventory destroyed by a flash flood this past weekend.
Russian Shop Fined for Anarchist Memoir
The manager of Podpisniye Izdaniya, a century-old bookshop in St. Petersburg, was fined for selling a copy of a jailed Belarusian anarchist’s memoir.
- 2025 Jun 13
Women’s Prize Winners
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke are the respective winners of the U.K.-based Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction.
Horror-Themed Store Opens in Wyoming
The Dreadful Bookshop opened its doors today in Casper.
Andrew Miller Wins Walter Scott Prize
Miller’s The Land in Winter won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, managed by the U.K.-based Abbotsford Trust.
A New Indie Heads to Mississippi
Dixon Books is slated to open this fall in Natchez.
Reading the West Award Winners
Louise Erdrich, Amanda Churchill, and Rebecca Nagle are among the eight winners of this year’s Reading the West Book Awards, presented by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
- 2025 Jun 12
From the Los Angeles Times
Peter Brown rebooted The Wild Robot for the preschool set. His underlying message remains.
Oregon Nonprofit to Open Bookshop-Cafe
Literary Arts will launch Literary Arts Café this weekend, a new gathering space that combines literature, community, and coffee in Portland.
Weija Pan Wins Levis Reading Prize
Pan’s debut poetry collection Motherlands (Milkweed Editions) has won this year’s Levis Reading Prize, presented by the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
‘USA Today’ Picks Best Indie Bookshops
The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn and Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston are among USA Today’s top 10 independent bookstores in the country.
Black-Focused Culinary Bookshop to Open
BEM is slated to open in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood this fall, focusing on Black foodways and food literature from the African diaspora.
- 2025 Jun 11
From the Minnesota Star Tribune
Minnesota school district rewrites book review policy, agrees to return banned titles to shelves.
From the Guardian
Children's reading enjoyment falls to lowest recorded level in the U.K.
From the New Yorker
Impossible Creatures author Katherine Rundell recommends four works set in fantastical worlds.
From the Associated Press
Corinne Bailey Rae's first picture book, Put Your Records On, draws upon her musical past.
From Literary Hub
Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll.
From Book Riot
Queer Native, Indigenous, and Aboriginal YA Fiction.
From 100 Scope Notes
'This Book' Books of 2025.
From Book Riot
Maurice Sendak-Themed Gifts for Wild Things of Every Age.
Inaugural British Audio Awards
In the U.K., the Bookseller and the Stage have launched the British Audio Awards, or the “Speakies,” celebrating outstanding achievement in audiobooks and audio drama across 17 categories.
Juice Bar–Bookstore Opens in Utah
The Last Page Book Shop & Juice Bar celebrated its official ribbon-cutting on Moab’s Main Street last week.
Ohio’s Traveling Bookshop
The mobile Wandering Quills Bookshop will be rolling through Columbus this summer for a host of events.
Toronto Bookshop Evicted After 40 Years
Mabel’s Fables, one of the city’s oldest bookshops dedicated to children’s literature, has been forced to leave its location after nearly four decades due to a forthcoming condo development.
Bookshop Owner and Local Politician Dies
Gwendolyn Henderson, owner of the Black English bookstore in Tampa Heights, Fla., and a Tampa city councilwoman since 2023, has died at 60.
- 2025 Jun 10
RIP Richard Appignanesi
The graphic novelist, whose pioneering educational books took on subjects such as Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, has died at 84, per the Guardian.
The Far Right and Publishing
The Guardian surveys the far right’s latest publishing endeavors—and the authors that are pushing against them.
Alliance Hires Former Diamond Staff
Despite suing the bankrupt comics distributor twice, Alliance Entertainment has hired several former Diamond employees, according to the Beat.
Meanwhile, Udon Cuts Off Diamond
Udon Entertainment and its sister company Manga Classics have severed their ties with Diamond, reports ICv2.
Marvel Masterworks Hits Pause
David Gabriel, SVP of print sales and marketing at Marvel, has announced that the Marvel Masterworks line is going on an “indefinite hiatus,” per Bleeding Cool.
Uncivilized Teams with Living the Line
Uncivilized Books will offer select titles from Living the Line Books through their website in the wake of Diamond’s bankruptcy, reports Bleeding Cool, after some confusion over the situation.
Webtoon Scraps Daily Pass
The Webtoon app no longer features its Daily Pass option, per the Beat, which allowed users to unlock one episode per day from eligible series.
What to Read for Pride
The New York Times rounds up eight comic books and graphic novels with LGBTQ+ characters, themes, and more, in celebration of Pride Month.
Paul Pope Gets His Due
Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City is hosting a career-spanning exhibit focused on the comic artist, according to Boing Boing.
Animation Festival Lands in France
The Hollywood Reporter spotlights the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where attendees will get a first look at this year’s biggest upcoming animated features and series.
‘Eyes of Wakanda’ Premieres
The first episode of the animated spin-off from the Black Panther franchise premiered on Monday at the aforementioned Annecy Animation Festival, reports Variety.
David Means Wins PEN/Malamud Award
Means, the author of six story collections, is the winner of this year’s PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award, which recognizes writers who have “demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.”
Dog-Themed Bookshop Comes to Virginia
Tales & Tails opened in Fredericksburg last month, featuring a dog-friendly patio, coffee counter, study spaces, and a range of books.
Cincinnati Bookshop Rebrands and Reopens
Tome Books & Novelteas, previously known as the Tome Bookstore: Coffee and Books, has a new location in Ohio’s Anderson Township.
Spotlight on Wisconsin Bookshop
Driftless Books & Music in Viroqua has become a beloved addition to the state’s growing indie bookstore scene.
- 2025 Jun 09
From the Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon "freedom to read" library bill heads to the governor's desk.
From Variety
Dasher, a CG-animated holiday special based on the Matt Tavares picture book, is being developed by Disney Branded Television.
From Deadline
Powerless TV Series Based on YA Fantasy Books in Works at Amazon.
From Intelligent Collector
Maurice Sendak's Wild Things Drawing Sells for Record $625,000.
From Book Riot
Adventure Is Out There: Playful Picture Books for Summer Reading.
Nebula Award Winners
A.D. Sui and John Wiswell are among the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
Plutarch Award Winners
Cynthia Carr’s Candy Darling (FSG) and Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s Scapegoat (Harper) have won the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2024, presented by the Biographers International Organization.
Seidler Wins Phillis Wheatley Book Award
Margaret Seidler’s ‘Payne-ful’ Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth (Evening Post Books) has won this year’s Phillis Wheatley Book Award in nonfiction, presented by the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage.
- 2025 Jun 06
Polefrone Wins Harvard Fellowship
Philomena Polefrone, the associate director of the ABA’s American Booksellers for Free Expression initiative, has received Harvard’s Carr-Ryan Fellowship to research “the role of independent bookstores as the vanguard and final line of defense for the right to read in the United States.”
Spotlight on Santa Barbara Bookmobile
All Booked Up, the brainchild of three local educators, is a new bookstore-on-wheels that travels around the coastal city and specializes in romance and fantasy.
- 2025 Jun 05
Spivak Wins Holberg Prize
Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the recipient of the 2025 Holberg Prize, awarded by the government of Norway, for her groundbreaking work in the fields of literary theory and philosophy.
- 2025 Jun 04
From Literary Hub
How Britain's 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers.
From LateNighter
Kenan Thompson Teams with SNL Writer for Debut Children's Book.
From Crime Reads
Nova Ren Suma on Outlaw Women in Fiction.
From Cracked
14 Celebrity Children's Books to Put You Right to Sleep.
Nonprofit Launches Bookshop in Illinois
Our Future Reads has opened Mission Curiosity in Oak Park.
Bernardine Evaristo Wins Women’s Prize
The English author has won the £100,000 Outstanding Contribution Award, a one-off honor presented by the U.K.-based Women’s Prize for Fiction to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Romance Bookshop to Land in Montana
FMC Books, a woman-owned romance bookshop, will open later this month in downtown Missoula.
- 2025 Jun 03
Wisconsin Bookstore to Shutter
The Little Read Book, an independent bookstore in the Wauwatosa Village, will close in July after 40 years in business.
- 2025 Jun 02
From the Guardian
'It's so boring': Gen Z parents don't like reading to their kids—and educators are worried.
From the New York Times
Summer Reading Challenges Aren't Just for Kids.
Judy Blume Receives 2025 WNBA Award
The Women’s National Book Association has presented Blume with this year’s WNBA Award, which is given every other year to a “living American woman who has done meritorious work in the world of books.”
From WBIR
Knoxville, Tenn., bookstore hosting Banned Book Club after more than 100 books removed from Knox Co. Schools' shelves.
Winners of the James Tait Black Prizes
Lucas Rijneveld and Lamia Ziade are the winners of this year’s James Tait Black Prizes, the only major British book prize to be judged by literature scholars and students.
New Bookshop to Open in North Carolina
Chapter House Books is set to open in late June in downtown Fayetteville.
‘Banned Book Club’ Comes to Tennessee
The Bottom, a Black-focused bookstore in Knoxville, launched the club after 100 books were removed from local school libraries.
Rhode Island Beer Hall Dives Into Books
The Guild, a beer hall with three locations across the state, is expanding to Plainville, Mass., in partnership with an Unlikely Story Bookstore & Cafe.
- 2025 May 30
NAIBA Book Award Winners
Percival Everett, Chanel Miller, and Zoë Schlanger are among the five winners of this year’s NAIBA Book of the Year Award, presented by the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association.
NYC’s First Horror Bookshop
The Twisted Spine has signed a lease in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, and will specialize in horror and dark literature once it opens.
- 2025 May 29
Spotlight on Bronx Bookstore
Pop-up shop Lavish Booktique focuses on titles written by women and partners with local groups across the Bronx.
CWA Dagger Awards Shortlists
Tana French, Don Winslow, and Asako Yuzuki are among the shortlisted authors for this year’s Dagger Awards, presented by the U.K.’s Crime Writers’ Association.
Book Fest Comes to Upstate New York
Schenectady’s Wolf Hollow Brewing Company and the Book Hive are joining forces to host Book Fest this weekend, featuring bargain books and local beverages.
California Lit Festival Returns
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and Bookstore will be hosting the 20th annual Celebrating Words book festival in Pacoima this Saturday.
New Bookshop to Open in Missouri
The Readers Depot will open in Rolla next week, almost a year since the city’s last bookstore closed.
- 2025 May 28
From the Oregonian
Oregon's ban on book bans is heading for a final vote in the legislature.
From Austin American Statesman
5th Circuit rules that Texas library patrons have no First Amendment right to information.
