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Here's a list of the most checked-out books in the public library system in 2025. "The Women" by Kristin Hannah. "James: A ...

As you consider last week’s nominations for the Academy Awards, test your knowledge of works that inspired previous winners ...

Did you resolve to read more books in 2026? We’ve got some inspiration: Now that 2025 is in the books, so to speak, local library systems are sharing their most borrowed titles of last year—which are ...

If readers could stack every book borrowed across all Central and Western Massachusetts libraries last year, it would reach ...

Philly residents checked out all kinds of books from the Free Library this past year — but one twisty, time-jumping mystery drew the most readers. "James" by Percival Everett, the Pultizer-winning ...

Modern romance fiction has been around since the Harlequin paperbacks of the 1970s and the Fabio bodice rippers of the ’80s and ’90s, but, lately, there’s been a renewed surge in interest in a ...

You can’t sit with these fantasy series. Seriously, these fantasy books are so popular that they sit at the cool kid’s table ...

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