- From USA Today: A review of Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption, which recounts effort to clear man wrongfully convicted in rape.
- From Bustle: 11 books on the history of food that will make you think more about what’s on your plate.
- From USA Today: New and noteworthy books.
- From Daily Mail: Bestselling author Gill Hornby suggests key novels to help you through the trickier times in life.
- From Vox: What Mr. Mercedes understands that most Stephen King adaptations don’t.
- From amNY: New culinary books cover cheese, cider, peppers and more.
- From USA Today: Why the year 1922 rocked the book world.
- From ELLE: 27 of the best books to read this fall.
- From The New Yorker: Lauren Groff discusses the inspiration for the short story Dogs Go Wolf, in which two young sisters are trapped alone with a dog in the middle of a storm.
- From AOL: The top 20 most reviewed books of all time from Amazon.
- From Los Angeles Review of Books: A review of Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men.
- From The Los Angeles Times: Dear Jeff Bezos, If you care about authors, you’ll raise Amazon’s book prices.
- NPR reviews The Stone Sky, a powerful, timely finale to a trilogy of a world built on oppression and exploitation.
- From NPR: Young Jane Young is the story of a political sex scandal, told through the women who endure it.
- Gin Phillips at NPR talks to Scott Simon about her latest novel, Fierce Kingdom, a novel about every parent’s worst nightmare.
- From NPR: Set in Nigeria in the 1980s, Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel, Stay With Me, tells the story of a couple who desperately want to have a child in a society where that’s what’s expected of them.
- From NPR: Sue Grafton’s latest novel, Y Is For Yesterday, is the second to last in a series spanning A to Z and 35 years worth of best-selling murder mysteries.
- From The New York Times: Cultural Revolution Selfies, a new book by Wang Qiuhang, includes subversive images, taken during China’s Cultural Revolution, of the photographer himself.
- From The New York Times talks to Patricia Williams about her new memoir, Rabbit, where the standup comedian tells how she overcame a young life of poverty and drug dealing to become a performer.
- From Goodreads Blog: The best young adult books of August.
- From The New Yorker: Doreen St. Félix reviews Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, a memoir about living in Bedford-Stuyvesant by the filmmaker Brandon Harris.
- From The New York Times: A review of Rachel Seiffert’s novel A Boy in Winter, which probes the bonds and betrayals in a Ukrainian town as it succumbs to Hitler’s armies.
- From NPR: Anne Gisleson was reeling from a series of family tragedies when she began meeting with friends to discuss books and life in post-Katrina New Orleans. Her new book, The Futilitarians, chronicles a year of those meetings.
- From The New York Times: What to read before you head to Botswana.
- From NPR: What She Ate examines the lives of six different women — such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown — through the food they ate. It’s called What She Ate by Laura Shapiro.
- From Omnivoracious: Amazon’s best books of August.
- From The New York Times: A review of See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt.
- From NYT > Books: A review of The Burning Girl by Claire Messud.
- From Omnivoracious: Washington State Book Award finalists announced. We always pay attention to the Washington State Book Awards, organized by The Washington Center for the Book.
- From Omnivoracious: Children’s books for back to school.
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