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Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

There is a new book in the top five this week, but it’s not released in 2026. 2022 romance after every summer A Prime Video TV series was recently created by Carly Fortune, increasing its popularity. This is a great time, as summer romance is in high demand this time of year. All you need

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Literary Center »On the other side is March

I am a woman of about sixty years old. Somewhere between late and never. No longer is she the career woman, mother, housewife and girlfriend who does it all, fulfills every demand, and then some, just with her left hand. Article continues after ad Now I am a wife, mother, grandmother and my mother’s mother.

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Best New and Recent Memoirs on Audio

ElevenReader: An award-winning audio app with 100,000+ premium titles, plus any PDF, article or document you bring. A new award-winning audiobook app that comes with 100,000+ premium titles and the ability to convert any text you bring into natural-sounding audio. Anything becomes an audiobook – e-books, PDFs, documents, articles, research papers. Cheaper than Audible, with

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Disability by David Turner Review – A Revelatory New History | society books

YYou can take two seemingly contradictory lessons from historian David Turner’s new book on disability in the UK. First, worryingly little has changed for disabled people since the beginning of the modern era (the book’s first few stories, about 17th-century men and women trying to prove they were disabled enough to receive parish support to

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The best-selling books of the week, according to all lists

Blackstone Publishing and Hillary Davidson Jackie Swift makes every effort to succeed. While at work, she lies to protect shady clients at a shady PR firm. At home, she helps her younger sister, Maddie, avoid the consequences of the dangerous choices she makes about friends and drugs. After Maddy runs away from Jackie’s old boss’s

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Literary Center »The Feverish Whites

June 1982 As Sylvia Upshaw and her two children were putting on their shoes, about to head to Mrs. Talbot’s house, three knocks came at the front door. Sil’s daughter, Gigi, their first child, peered out the living room window that overlooked their small front lawn. “It’s white people,” she said. “Whites? James and Ella

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Books our editors liked this week

Biography this dark night by Deborah Lutz In her lyrical new biography, Lutz sheds light on the most mysterious literary, solitary Brontë sister: Emily. She was described as introverted, awkward, guarded to the point of reticence, and her “extreme restraint seemed impenetrable”, said her friend Ellen Nussey. “Except to go to church or for a

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Danny Simmons, painter and activist from creative family, dies at 72

Danny Simmons, an artist, poet, gallerist and energetic cultural organizer who, along with his younger brothers, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, best known as Rave Run of the group Run-DMC, did much to promote the work of emerging black artists, has died. He was 72 years old. His family announced the death

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cool fantasy books for kids

Everything is so noisy these days, so sometimes kids (and adults) need a good book or five to take them away from the noise. A book with a great story and magical events, but not a lot of action or serious situations. Welcome to the world of cool fantasy! Here are five low-risk fantasies of

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Book Riot’s Deal of the Day for June 18th, 2026

Today’s Special Book Deal $1.99 ace of spades By Faridah Ábíké-Íyímídé GET THIS DEAL $1.99 on animals by Susan Orlean GET THIS DEAL $3.99 only for the week By Natasha Bishop GET THIS DEAL $1.99 Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond GET THIS DEAL $1.99 what do my bones know By Stephanie Fu GET THIS

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