Two reading rainbow Icons appear for storytime at the Obama Presidential Center, authors choose the best queer books in America, this year’s Common Reads and more. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines on politics, culture, media, and other topics.
LeVar Burton, Mychal Threats and Obama walk into the library
The inauguration ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center was the talk of the city, and I don’t just mean the South Side of Chicago. From About Every living president was in attendance, from Oprah to Quinta Brunson to Stephen Colbert. But the moment that captured readers’ hearts can be found in Story Time Video Recap for Kids Posted from Bluesky, at the Grand Center Public Library branch reading rainbow The account of host and beloved librarian Mychal Threets. Two reading rainbow Symbol in a story time? What a moment it was. Obama Presidential Center Branch It includes some of President Obama’s favorite reading rooms, a reading room, and a maker space.
Authors choose the best LGBTQIA+ books
If you’re struggling to fit all the queer books into your TBR stack, you won’t want to miss out with this year’s Pride Month Reading Rex Guardianlist of “The Best American LGBTQ+ Books, Selected by Authors” I’m overcome with a kind of soul-deep heaviness when I think about America’s sesquicentennial celebrations, I’ll take it in the form of lists like this. Highlights include Brian Washington (running around) Recommending Raika Aoki light from unusual starsSamuel R. Delaney (dark reflection) to recommend giovanni’s room James Baldwin, by Imogen Binney (nevada) to recommend Duration By Dennis Cooper and Sarah Shulman (Girls, Dreams and Everything) to recommend the heart is a Lonely Hunter By Carson McCullers.
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We have some exciting upcoming adaptations, one about a female knight and another about female ambition. Netflix picks up Alix E. Harrowtime-loop fantasy everlasting For a series conversion. Harrow will join as an executive producer and the series will be written by Daphne Ferraro (Maxton Hall: The World Between Us). Above At Vice Studios, Anika Jade Levy‘S flat earth The series will also get the adaptation treatment. Levy is co-writing with Sam Zwibbleman (pen15-A personal favourite).
Colleges are choosing books for general textbooks in 2026
Want to know what incoming students at colleges and universities across America are reading in 2026 as part of the Common Reads Project? It is a mix of fiction and nonfiction and includes books by Ross Gay, Elizabeth Gilbert, and George Orwell. Check out the full list and consider what the titles say about our current political moment.
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