Bookish Miscellaneous

• Supreme Court justices received $2 million in book deals in 2025, bringing the justices’ collective book deal earnings over the last two years up to over $13 million.
• A new study says that your brain prefers to read on paper, rather than screens.
• The global reading crisis that started with smartphones.
• The most popular SFF books of the last 3 years, according to Goodreads.
• When did our favorite literary heroines get so grown up?
• THE END OF READING IS HERE. (Or so says The Atlantic…)
• The rise of the “As Seen on TikTok” sticker.
• We need new bookish discourse.

Book Adaptations In the News

• Tomi Adeyemi says she will not watch the film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone.
• John Langan’s The Fisherman is getting an adaptation.
• Julia Garner is starring in the adaptation of Mikita Brottman’s true crime book, Guilty Creatures.
• Jessica Knoll’s brand new book is getting a series adaptation.

All Things Comics

• The 2026 Harvey Awards finalists have been announced.
• Maia Kobabe, author of Genderqueer, has a new middle grade graphic novel with Swati “Lucky” Srikumar called Opting Out.
• The Princess Diaries is getting a graphic novel adaptation to mark its 25th anniversary.
• Inside the brave new world of Kickstarter comics.
• The best graphic novels for kids heading back to school.
• Reading Alice Oseman.
• Must-read nonfiction comics.

Audiophilia

• The AI company ElevenLabs has released an audio retelling of The Odyssey featuring an AI-generated Michael Caine as the narrator. This is an officially licensed version of Michael Caine’s voice (which surprised me), but holy cow, can we stop the erasure of actual human narrators and actual human jobs??
• The most popular queer romance audiobooks on Libby.
• The most popular thriller audiobooks on Libby.