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August is almost over, which means the best reading season of the year approaches. Fall is the perfect time to cozy up under a blanket with a good book, watching the leaves flutter down outside your window. It’s also the biggest season in publishing, with the buzziest titles coming out. And there’s one genre that really comes into its power in fall: horror.

The Most Anticipated Horror Books of Fall 2024, According to Goodreads

This week’s most read books on Goodreads have some familiar author names — in fact, they’re all titles that have been on the most read list many times before. The order is shuffled a bit from last week, but to add a more variety, I’ve included the top five most read books on Goodreads last week in three countries around the world. This time: Denmark, Malaysia, and Portugal. Denmark’s and Portugal’s most read titles this week are both not (yet?) available in English.

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

John Green is the bestselling young adult fiction author, most famous for the global phenomenon The Fault in Our Stars. It may be his most successful book, but it only scratches the surface of his thoughtful, fun bibliography. In Green's work, the philosophical and the everyday coexist side-by-side. In particular, he has a knack for telling stories about adolescent protagonists, usually blending humor and heartache. They touch on heavy themes and tough subject matter while remaining enjoyable and accessible.

Every John Green Book, Ranked According to Goodreads

If you’re looking to get your FYP in bookish order, here are our favorite TikTok videos from the last week. Also make sure to catch up on the best 21st-century novels in 10 books, and read up on the best US cities for book lovers. As for me, I’ve...

The Best New Book Releases Out August 21, 2024

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We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing. I don’t know about you, but once August rolls around, I kinda can’t wait to decorate for Halloween. There’s something about this end-of-summer-start-of-fall hybrid that just makes me feel ready for all things spooky. If you’re feeling the Halloween fever now too, then you need to get to Walmart as soon as possible. The department store just debuted a brand-new pumpkin decor find that’s going to make your Halloween and fall season the coziest one yet.

This “Adorable” $12 Halloween Find Looks Like One That’s 5x the Price (It’s So Cozy!)

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. “[A] palm-sweat-inducing psychological thriller.”. “[The Snap] buzzes with all-too-familiar frustration at injustices. In the doubts and thrills of her story, Staple echoes the moment in a game when a bone-crunching collision has a player carted off the field. Are we allowed to enjoy this? Should the game still go on? An endorphin-fueled, heart-hammering sprint.”

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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"They get more than us, Why nobody told me about this?". If you're looking for a tasty option that won't break the bank, a Chick-fil-A's kids' meal might be just what you're after. It seems like a great deal. In fact, some people argue it's a better deal than a regular adult meal. This TikToker took the audience through the ins and outs of this meal.

Chick-fil-A customer says they’ll never order a full meal again after seeing kids’ meal

Right now, Walt Disney World Resort is embracing the spooky season with a spectacular array of Halloween decorations and themed events. Yesterday, August 9, 2024, marked the first night of Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, signaling the beginning of the Halloween season. Guests visiting the park can immerse themselves in the Halloween spirit beginning on this fateful eve.

Disney Marks the End of Halloween at the Theme Parks

In my first attempt to address the subject of my young husband’s suicide, the story I wrote bore no resemblance to the reality of his death, or to my own life. I thought this was what creativity was all about. The best thing about that earliest work was its title, The Child Widow, which was a gift from Philip Roth, my first reader, who awarded it like a gold star when he encouraged me to consider myself a writer. After that false start in 1970 I went on to write other novels. I also tried many other times to write about Tim. Finally, because the title was too good to waste, I set aside those previous efforts and wrote “The Child Widow,” an energetic short story published by the literary journal Ploughshares and designated among “100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2003” in The Best American Short Stories. That was good enough for me, so I called my original ambition fulfilled and let it go. Or so I thought.

Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

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In the last chapter before the epilogue of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Harry proves he didn't conquer all the evil of the Wizarding World.

Harry Potter didn't 'save the world' at the end of the series, and the last sentence of the book is proof

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Wandering through Palm Harbor, Florida, locals might discover a place where time itself seems to have paused, offering a delightful mix of the past and present. Antiques & Uniques in Ozona is no ordinary shop because it’s a treasure trove brimming with strange and captivating finds. From quirky artifacts...

This Funky Antique Store In Florida Is A Wonderland Of Curiosities And Bizarre Collectibles

The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week. My choices for this week include Sweet Romances, Romance, Cozy Culinary Mystery, Cozy Historical Mystery, Middle Grade Horror, Young Adult Romance Fantasy, Paranormal Romantic Suspense, Sweet Romantic Comedies, and Paranormal Romance. Is it almost September? This year is flowing by...

New Books Publishing Week 35 of 2024

The thrilling tale of a time-jumping teenager racing to rescue her parents. Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper is an action-packed mystery following a teenager who is taken out of school by her parents one afternoon and, just a few hours later, finds herself lost in an underworld of adults from the future. Fourteen-year-old Lizard (government name Elizabeth, but she finds the common nickname Liz “too unimpressive, too plain.”) learns she can stop time—at the exact moment her parents mysteriously disappear and secret agents from the future begin to hunt her down.

Book Review: Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper

A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

How a Viktor E. Frankl article on the collective neuroses from 1955 reveals the timelessness of modern malaise. | Lit Hub History. “The story of the Dog Lady isn’t the kind of standard pet tale that one usually encounters.” On the complex dynamics of animal rescue. | Lit Hub Biography.

Lit Hub Daily: August 26, 2024

And just like that, after a summer that felt like it was entirely made up of heat waves and tropical storms, we are preparing for fall. I’m going to be real and say that, at first, I was scoffing a bit at the fall book lists I started seeing about a week ago. Weather forecasts still had a lot of us firmly in the 80s and 90s, temperature-wise, and outside was giving more iced tea than pumpkin spice.

The Biggest Book Club Books Coming Out This Fall

The following is from Alejandro Puyana's Freedom Is a Feast. Puyana, who came to the United States from Venezuela at the age of twenty-six, received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His work has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The American Scholar, and elsewhere, and his story “Hands of Dirty Children” was reprinted in Best American Short Stories. He lives with his wife (the writer Brittani Sonnenberg) and daughter in Austin, Texas.

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For my neighbor Linda back in Lincoln, Nebraska, it was chickens—fridge magnets, figurines, calendars, coffee mugs, decorative plates. To sit in her kitchen, some sunlit morning, was to be surrounded by feathers and beaks in all manner of design. She just loved them. She couldn’t say why. For someone else, it might be bumper stickers. You slap one down, then another, then pretty soon the entire back of your car has been plastered over with slogans and jokes, the oldest of which start to fade and peel off.

As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

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Some zodiac signs have many misfortunes while others excel in all sectors. Venus is in Libra on August 29 and will transform the three luckiest zodiac signs’ lives. Their friendships and relationships will grow on Thursday. Libra’s transition will inspire them to have a good attitude in each move they make. Could you be among these lucky signs?

3 Luckiest Zodiac Signs On August 29, 2024

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The 10 Best Book Covers of August

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In August it was all about the text treatments for me, which ranged from spooky to irreverent...

The 10 Best Book Covers of August

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