Our LibraryReads Notable Nonfiction for October 2025 is F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES: SINFUL CINDERELLAS, PRINCE ALARMINGS, AND OTHER TIMELESS CLASSICS by Liz Gotauco! @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @cosbrarian.bsky.social

Our LibraryReads Board Bonus Pick for October 2025 was selected by @surlyspice.bsky.social: VAMPIRES AT SEA by Lindsay Merbaum (Creature Publishing)!

Our next LibraryReads October 2025 Hall of Famer is KJ Charles for ALL OF US MURDERERS! @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social

Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is THE MISSING PAGES by Alyson Richman! @hachettelibrary.bsky.social @misterchris.bsky.social

Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is WRECK: A NOVEL by Catherine Newman! @librarylovefest.bsky.social

Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is THE WOMEN OF WILD HILL by Kirsten Miller. @librarylovefest.bsky.social

Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is RED CITY by Marie Lu! @torbooks.bsky.social

And congratulations to our LibraryReads October 2025 Hall of Fame authors and publishers! These are forthcoming books by authors who have been librarian favorites three times or more, so you know they're good. Printable list can be found at libraryreads.org.

The suspense is over--here are the Top 10 LibraryReads picks for October 2025! Congratulations to all the authors and publishers whose books were selected! As always, a printable list is ready for collection development and readers' advisory librarians (and readers in general!) at libraryreads.org.

University of North Texas officials published a statement Thursday that apparently condemns “recent actions of a few of our community members regarding” the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Last four hours!

hell yeah: "A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”" apnews.com/article/atla...

Murdering someone for the 'offense' of trying to retrieve their brother's body is..beyond monstrous and the horror is compounded by the risk of identifying it as such: The reporter "asked not to be named because Israel has killed at least 189 journalists in Gaza" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Silver has always been a poseur who accidentally hit the lottery with two election calls, parlayed that into a bestselling primer to Bayesian Theory for Dummies that fed his gambling addiction, and has basically gotten nothing right since. He's mad that this is obvious.

And, in Karma News: "The USMNT lost its friendly against South Korea, 2-0, in front of a largely pro-Korea crowd in New Jersey." via The Athletic.

"It remains unclear what visas the workers held or whether those allowed them to be on the site." 475 workers detained, huge international incident, and the Trump admin can't even give a basic explanation for it. Would you invest in a lawless country like this?

Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens? I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

The Supreme Court really said

Let me just come right out and say it: I love Bernie Sanders. Happy birthday, old friend. Keep up the fight!

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

I feel like my country has all but conceded Texas to being the GOP’s literal testing grounds for gauging how much fascism the American people will tolerate & how best “legally” to do lawfare. And if I say anything about that I get 10 people telling me to move & 5 telling me that’s what I voted for.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

"Thousands take to the streets of the nation's capital as regime declares war on third largest city" should be a bigger deal all around tbh.

H-E-B’s Charles Butt unveils private art collection for first time at Fort Worth museum

"Multiple protestors have been arrested in Orlando, Florida for recoloring the Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk, even after a judge ruled that the state’s highway patrol had no probable cause in doing so." www.them.us/story/orland...

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

I’m no lawyer but this seems like sexual harassment. You can likely infer from this that they’ve done this with a much wider database of images on Facebook of your and my friends and family. Nothing will happen though.

Meanwhile this is illegal in Denmark. In Denmark people own the copyright of their persona. On TikTok I notice a lot of fake accounts trying to seduce me into following them. With Meta those fake accounts are integral to the platform. This type of FB phishing is, and should be kept illegal.

Are there no intellectual property laws for us domiciled organisations ? What the heck. (super creepy)

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

I hope they nuke this demonic horseshit from orbit

At a rate of three minutes per order, each location would save a total of 200 hours labor per year, which at $15 /hr would be only $3k/yr. If orders took 4 min, it would go up to $4k, and if average wage was $20/hr it would hit a whopping $5.3k per year. The average revenue is over $1.5M

The math here is pretty damning. Let’s assume they didn’t start w/ 500, so average 250 over 2 years. That would mean 4k orders per year per location, or a little less than 11 orders a day. If the average order takes 3 minutes, they spent god knows how much to save half an hour of work a day.

BBC News - Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is easier to imagine the president's death than to imagine Chuck Schumer effective

Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say

See this is what I think. I hope the sheer volume of discussion of it gives him an aneurysm

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

this survey took less than two minutes yes, it's inane. do it anyway

GROSS.

The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."

NOOOO not more of the shrimp 😭

The online article's headline has more clarity...

They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

And if you're a screenwriter, search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #scriptsky