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The Book World News We Covered This Week

The most read books on Goodreads this week, how to identify credible sources in a time of misinformation, and more.

Here’s a look at all the news Book Riot covered this week.

🤔 How to Identify Credible Sources

🚫 Utah Bans 17th Book from Public Schools Statewide

📚 The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

🏆 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalists Announced

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Miscellany from Around the Bookish Internet

🥇The Winners of the 2025 Libby Awards

❗️Toni Morrison’s Lost Play

✍️ The Author of The Help Has a Second Novel Coming This Fall

🍿 The Books Behind the 2025 Academy Award Nominations

💯 The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

🙋‍♂️ Whatever Happened to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?

📓 New Yorker Editors on the Best Books They Read This Week

🌸 The Best Books of Spring

📺 Jon M. Chu is Making a Crazy Rich Asians TV Series

🍸 We’ve Been Misreading The Great Gatsby for 100 Years