BBC: Heated Rivalry, The Housemaid and Fourth Wing: TikTok launches BookTok bestseller list. “From rapid-fire reviews to emotional reactions, creators are shaping reading habits at scale and #BookTok has more than 77 million posts. Now, this influence is being formalised with the launch of the UK’s first official #BookTok bestseller list.”

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Daydreamers by Alvin Lu (Fiction Collective Two) & No One To Hold the Distant Dead by K.L. Schroeder (Psychopomp). See alt-text.

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Sunday Shelf Day!

What author takes up the most space on your shelf?

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2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.

A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Oak Cliff-Hangers (by Sherrie Zantea, Deep Vellum) & Shedding Season (by Jane Morton, Black Lawrence Press). See alt-text.

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Books may do more than entertain us.

A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read #books had a survival advantage compared with non-book #readers, even after adjusting for factors like age, #education, health, and wealth.

Strong evidence that #reading is associated with living better and longer.

Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with #longevity.
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