‼️ ‼️ ‼️ HOLY COW ‼️ ‼️ ‼️ 🕳️ PERSONA by @ravineangel.bsky.social 🕳️ 🏅 has made the WINTER BOOKSELLERS' LIST 🏅 📚 from @indiebookstores.ca 📚 💀 "Part poetic acid trip in a hall of mirrors, part sci-fi horror creation myth, part gen Z character study." 💀@bretonlikethecape.bsky.social Thank you 😭

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is among the @wwborders.bsky.social Most Anticipated Books of 2026. Translated from the Russian by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

This book is pure fire...🌋🌋🌋

Need to buy a last-minute present for the horror-lover in your life? May I not-so-humbly recommend this horror-movie history book from @1984prods.bsky.social with wonderfully unnerving cover art by @ghoulishgary.bsky.social Happy holidays!

I loved loved loved loved LOVED this book

"The novel’s strengths lie in its relentless drive, clear-eyed judgement, and focus on empathy" So excited to see Red Water by Jurica Pavicic included in @crimereads.bsky.social 'The Best International Crime Novels, Mysteries and Thrillers of 2025'! #Croatia crimereads.com/the-best-int...

Day #17: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Unconventional Children's Books. Oh yeah, AI? Here are the books for kids that will crush your creations with their sheer unpredictability. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/17/3...

★ Dance critic Sara Veale debuts with a sinuous history of the women dancers and choreographers who transformed their male-dominated industry. It’s a captivating chronicle. @FaberBooks buff.ly/LhNGOtz

“The subtleties of the menace, rage, and fear in Perfect Happiness are rendered brilliantly in English, thanks to Sean Lin Halbert’s careful, artful translation.” – Rachel S. Cordasco rachelcordasco.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...

'A keen sense of place help bring the narrative to life. It’s a solid whodunit that doubles as a captivating look at a country in transition.' Nice review for The End of the Sahara by Saïd Khatibi in @publisherswkly.bsky.social Trans. by Alexander Elinson. publishersweekly.com/9781916725225

13 staff members, 11 countries, 9 languages: The WWB team recommends our favorite books in translation from 2025. Read our picks here:

"Her writing seems to see into this future, playing with the in-between, ambiguous, and fog." Leah von Essen's review of “The Week of Colors” by Elena Garro, translated by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...

Marlen Haushofer's strange, haunting novel The Wall is one of the best books I've read in a long time.

Ladner! You’re invited to a meet & greet and book signing of A SIGN OF THE TIMES at @blackbondbooks.bsky.social on Dec 21 from 12-2 ✨ Get signed copies ahead of the holidays, and meet Benjamin Jackson, Aaron Chapman, and Danny Filippone from the Penthouse — the men behind the book!

These days, the neon marquee outside the legendary Penthouse Nightclub gets more attention than the nearly 80-year-old establishment itself. Now, it’s the subject of a new book — A Sign of the Times: The Best of the Penthouse Marquee. #NewsRadioBookshelf vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/12/07/b...

A new review for Rhapsody Smith, Ice Angel by Lorna Schultz Nicholson! 🏒 🌟 Read the full review in the School Library Journal www.schoollibraryjournal.com/review/rhaps... #HockeyBooksForKids #MiddleGrade #CanLit #ChildrensLit #ShopLocal #BookReview #PWHL

Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm... @twolinespress.com

🚨Here are the best crime novels of the year!!!! crimereads.com/best-books-2...

75 Notable Translations of 2025, per @worldlittoday.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

We are publishing The End of the Sahara by Said Khatibi, translated by Alexander Elinson, on 26th Feb (UK) + 24th March (US). Read this excerpt in @markaz-review.bsky.social to find out why we're so excited about it: themarkaz.org/the-end-of-t... #Algeria #FictionInTranslation

"Messy Cities" - a Canadian indy bestseller! #23 on the 2025 list of bestselling books by Canadian publishers in independent bookstores. The perfect gift for the urbanist in your life! quillandquire.com/omni/indepen...

Here we go!!! Starting our annual countdown of the best books of the year, we rounded up the 20 best crime fiction books of 2025: crimereads.com/best-books-2...

“Hailed as South America’s answer to Cormac McCarthy,” Ana Paula Maia is back w/ a new novel ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH (trans Padma Viswanathan) ✨ Read @bopgoth.bsky.social’s review below & grab it now via @charcopress.com southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...

An in-depth interview about 🌚 astro 🌚 published in the US by @transitbooks.bsky.social worldkidlit.org/2025/08/18/i... *Interview by Katy Dycus, @worldkidlit.bsky.social

I was surprised at how much I genuinely admired last year’s Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. I’ve read ALOT of Christmas stories, as you might imagine. Now from Grove and translator Diane Oatley comes Winter Stories, by the same, Ingvild Rishøi. So good

Lit Hub's favourite books of 2025, including titles from the mighty @charcopress.com, @deepvellum.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org, and @twolinespress.com! lithub.com/lit-hubs-43-...

Including books from our friends @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social and Ronsdale Press! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...

If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!

We're thrilled to see so many books from independent publishers on best-of-the-year lists! We're keeping tabs on all the books from Consortium publishers that are receiving end-of-year accolades here: www.cbsd.com/best-books-o...

More love for On the Calculation of Volume! Available from @ndbooks.bsky.social in Canada and the US! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Great to see so many titles from PGC publishers on this list! lithub.com/100-notable-...

'Tom, with his huge generosity of spirit, has sat at the heart of Faber publishing for six decades. He was a delight to work with and a true friend.' Dinah Wood remembers Tom Stoppard. faber.co.uk/journal/faber-remembers-tom-stoppard/

‘He carved out his career in his own always carefully chosen words.’ theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/30/sir-tom-stoppard-obituary

'He wasn’t just a brilliant creative artist and a marvellous entertainer, he was a conscience to us all.' Tom Stoppard’s biographer, Hermione Lee, reflects on his dazzling wit and scrupulous integrity.

One of the greatest to ever do it.

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?” — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet. #tomstoppard #rip #restinpeace

Farewell to a modern great Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lovely to see mentions for Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton and On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle in the morning news!

So excited to see that Joan Smith has chosen Red Water by Jurica Pavicic as one of the @thetimes.com Books of the Year for 2025! 🙌

Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 2 is one of @theobserveruk.bsky.social's books of the year 2025, included in their essential guide to what to give this holiday season! Discover The Xenotext: Book 2: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...

Maggie Helwig’s Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community is featured on @theglobeandmail.com's 100 Best Books of 2025! Learn more about Encampment here: chbooks.com/Books/E/Enca...

A future Iran where men are subjugated by women; a wartime love story, where "every woman ought to feel proud" if an SS officer gets her pregnant; a dying ferryman with memories of Edward G Robinson; and a submerged Netherlands ("4 life jackets for the price of 3!"). Me on new translated fiction:

Huge day for @theglobeandmail.com #books The #Globe100 is out www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book... with our most notable books of 2025. We also have an interactive database www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book... of past years searchable by title, author and year. 1/2

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel "Terry Dactyl" shows how queer history often repeats

I finished Anjet Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier and, in short, I loved it. In long…I wrote an excessively long (continued in comments long) post about it over on IG. #booksky @newvesselpress.bsky.social @pgcbooks.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DRfBJwmkd0...

Bluesky, what are the best independent books stores in Ontario? GO.

This is such a great episode!