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NPR’s Summer Reading Poll has produced “100 Favorite Books For Young Readers.” September book picks arrive, as do fall favorites. The NYT writes about the flood of political books and Michael S. Schmidt proves he has good timing with Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President (Random House). The Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic are announced.

Bryan Washington wins the 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award for Lot: Stories. The National Book Awards longlists are announced for nonfiction and poetry. The longlist is also announced for the CBC Nonfiction Prize. Lit Hub releases its Fall Preview list. Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has died.

Barack Obama’s memoir will publish on Nov. 17 and will be titled A Promised Land. The National Book Foundation announces the longlists for the Translated Literature category and the Young People’s Literature category. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman and Disloyal by Michael Cohen top the bestseller lists. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke remains buzzy.

Notre Dame Library curators and conservators have collaborated on Compendium Animalium, a facsimile of an early modern book combining images from several volumes featured in a recent exhibition, complete with engravings, wooden boards, and leather bindings, that students can hold and investigate.

The Booker Prize shortlist is announced. It is a diverse and notably new gathering of authors. The Justice Department has opened a criminal inquiry into John Bolton and has subpoenaed his publisher and literary agent. The National Book Festival takes place online and on TV this year. The controversy over J.K. Rowling continues to grow. The October LibraryReads list arrives. A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion is on the way and Black Widow gets moved due to the pandemic.

Carol Edgarian’s latest, Andrea Lee’s first novel in 15 years, and China expert Orville Schell’s first novel ever.

From the dangers posed by the strong Black woman image and how imprisoned veterans are regaining confidence by training dogs to immune malfunction as the cause of exhaustion and the best way to do laundry.

Big print runs, big auctions, and TV rights are signs that these novels will be buzzing.

Could librarian-curated Little Free Libraries be the next great outreach tool to help improve youth reading scores and strengthen community connections to libraries? University of North Carolina (UNC)–Greensboro Library and Information Science Associate Professor Anthony Chow thinks so.