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Enjoy 50% off books sitewide—including our “Stories About (and for) Amazing Women” collection! Use code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/collections/... Some exclusions apply.

How do people feel about book prices right now? Mass market paperbacks are disappearing, trade paperbacks are $20, and hardcover books are $30. Is this pushing anyone else to buy mostly digital (like me) or on sale? #booksky

Big welcome in to @thatwitch.me and @willbearsmom.bsky.social to The Book Club this week! You can read with us and our newest members by joining fluxer.gg/QcN7EVCO using @fluxer.app 📚💙 #bookclub #readsky #readingcommunity #readers

#Booksky Finally finished Open Veins of Latin America. It's very difficult for me to look at how American pop culture/media portrays Latin America after finishing this book. Because in Netflix shows or Hollywood movies, there are almost always only two types of Latin America:

Now through June 9th, save 50% on books sitewide—including our “Inspiring Ideas for Living Well” collection! Use code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/collections/... Some exclusions apply. #Wellness #Gratitude

Samina Najmi’s essays “unpack the precarity and fluidity of terms like ‘South Asian American’ and ‘Pakistani’ as she traces her circular and layered history as a migrant.” Nalini Iyer reviews this debut collection. @niyerseattle.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/sin...

TL;DR: His position can be summed up as, "We like money. If AI books make us money, we'll sell AI books. But we don't think they'll currently make us any money while there's backlash. But if that changes in the future, yeah we'll do it: we like money." 💙📚💬 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

For anyone who missed this good reading news. 📚💙

Yessss! Loving these new features and can't wait to watch PB grow even more 💕

Featured Member's Current Read: Мы (We) by Yevgeny Zamyatin An early example of the classic dystopian novel, written in 1920, published first in English 1924, then in Russian 1952. Considered one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, inspiring Orwell, Vonnegut, Rand, and Nabokov. 💙📚🪐

The Impossible, Georges Bataille; tr. Robert Hurley

Here's a hot take for #Dostoevsky fans straight off the FYP: 💙📚🖋️

every audiobook narrator: hope you enjoy this book and don't mind that I pronounce one normal word ✨so weirdly✨

What about you, have you read any of Beauvoir's fictional works before? Her nonfiction is renowned. 💙📚🖋️

When a book cover kills the dead author who put his life in it. Never RIP, dear Turgenev! Haunt the souls of all involved in this @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social monstrosity!

Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature lithub.com/seven-of-the... At PG: Canterbury Tales www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... Inferno www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... Don Quixote www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #books #literature

Speed Reader.

Featured Member's Current Read: Blue Nights by Joan Didion A memoir reflecting on the death of Didion's daughter Quintana who died at age 39. She suffered from many serious mental health and physical ailments before passing away in 2005. Focus is placed especially on Joan's mourning process. 💙📚💡

Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

It’s pub day for Tarantula, Daniel Hahn’s English translation of Eduardo Halfon’s latest novel, and we have Anderson Tepper’s new interview of Halfon up on the WLT Weekly. The two talk about manipulated memory, influences, and more. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/intervi...

Very interested to see this film, especially given the positive reviews from Cannes. CLARISSA, an adaptation of MRS DALLOWAY set in modern-day Lagos. The Film Comment reviewers have been raving about it, too. #FilmSky #BookSky 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Did y'all know the little free library has a mobile app? 📚💙 littlefreelibrary.org/app/

New on the blog today, my thoughts on OTHER PEOPLE by Celia Dale, in which a teenager's life is upended when her father returns from Australia after a mysterious 12-year absence. An unsettling coming-of-age novel from one of the queens of suburban noir! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/o...

Joining a #bookclub is a great way to make new friends for #readersofbluesky if you want to get into #reading today.

Added to TBR. 💙📚

Phillis Wheatley, (1753 – 1784) was the first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by a family in Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her interest in poetry.

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What is the weirdest speculative fiction book, adult or YA, you've read in the last 10 years or so?

Featured Member's Current Read: One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall Two people escape the bustle of London for the remote calm of a seaside town. Cole can't outrun his demons and Leonora struggles to fit in. They connect and are thrown into a missing persons search without knowing each other. ⚡📚💙

📚💙 Starting tonight: gothic family saga The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski. #booksky #books #reading #currentlyreading 🇬🇧

Featured Member's Current Read: Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel A retelling of the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic written in Sanskrit over 1.8 million words long or 10x longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. The story is from the perspective of the goddess Ganga (Gangees). 💙📚⏳

A new translation of Camus' complete notebooks and travelogues from a single translator is being released offering a different perspective on the history of The Stranger and Myth of Sisyphus. 💙📚🖋️ lareviewofbooks.org/article/albe...

One might call it a perfectly crafted shitpost.

You heard the cat.

Public goods, held in common, distributed to everyone is good.

Our book club is voting on the name for our upcoming Buddy Reading bot. Which do you like? Catness Catabase Beans Dewey Poll is pinned in our general chat 💙📚 fluxer.gg/QcN7EVCO

i am in the mood to read this weekend.

bilf (book i’d like to finish)

But seriously, when did it become OK to use AI to generate these movie-like trailers for your new book promo? They look terrible and have practically nothing to do with the story. This is possibly the worst trend I've seen in years. 💬📚

Featured Member's Current Read: Доктор Живаго (Doctor Zhivago) by Boris Pasternak Nobel prize winner for literature Pasternak—famed for poetry—was rejected by Soviet censors in Moscow so the manuscript was smuggled to Italy to be published. People said, "I haven't read [him] but I condemn him." 💙📚🖋️

How far back in time can you read English? This was a fun experiment. It's fascinating to watch the alphabet evolve along with the grammar. I managed to get to the 1200s before I began to struggle, 1100 and beyond was unreadable 💙📚 #literature #readers www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" was first published #OTD in 1925. The novel is set on a single day in London in June 1923 and is widely celebrated as a masterpiece of modernist literature for its pioneering use of stream-of-consciousness storytelling. #litsky #booksky #skybrarian

Good night 💤 “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” Robin Williams

Contemplating mortality (whether I’ll have time to finish reading all the books I own)

Added to TBR. 🩸📚

Literacy is essential, actually. And we should be doing all that we can in our own ways to improve and to increase literacy. This is simply not controversial. It really is not. Let's fight about other things.