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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy Pub Day to Under Story by Chloe Benjamin! I loved it. The ideas she explores are bold and often mind-bending, and this novel’s heart for humanity is huge. I read it in July and I'm still thinking about it. Thanks to @putnambooks.bsky.social for the ARC. #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley #UnderStory

Cover image of the novel Under Story by Chloe Benjamin, showing the title and author in mirror arc images. The background of both is a sky with clouds. The cover also includes this text: "We wake up to tomorrow. Never yesterday."

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy US Pub Day to The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett. Her epistolary mysteries are clever, unique, and so much fun! The latest is no exception. Highly recommended for readers who love to play the detective. Thanks to @atriabooks.bsky.social for the ARC! #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley #TheSilentAppeal

This image shows the book cover of The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett, including the book title and author's name, and her status as a Sunday Times Bestselling Author, along with some review quotes. Also shown is a drawn image of an English village, with blood spatters on the cover. And finally, the words "A New Play. Another Murder. Who Will Speak The Truth?"

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy Pub Day to The Camino by Anya Niewierra, tra. Eileen Stevens! I loved this literary thriller about a woman walking the Camino de Santiago, the path her husband took one year earlier when he died. Great for Women in Translation month. Content warnings. Thanks @simonbooks.bsky.social. #BookSky

Novel cover of The Camino by Anya Niewierra, translated by Eileen Stevens. Cover shows the title, author, and translator. Background image is a picture of the hiking trail in yellows and browns, with a woman walking alone. The cover has an "x" which appears to be sliced across it, as with a knife.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interested in (re)visiting East of Eden before the Netflix adaptation drops on 10/1? I’m cohosting a read along, starting tomorrow (8/24). Join us on IG and/or Fable (fable.co/club/east-of...). Suggested reading schedule posting later tonight! #EastOfEdenReadAlong #BookSky 📚💙

Image showing the book cover of East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and titled Join Us for an East of Eden Read Along. Also says that the goal is to read the book before watching the Netflix adaptation. Starts on 8/25, hosted on IG and Fable by @chronicallybooked and @betsyreadsbooks

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy Pub Day to The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen from @stmartinspress.bsky.social. A compelling dual-timeline historical thriller that digs into the disturbing past of parapsychology. Inspired by real experiments at Duke University, this is two mysteries in one. Highly recommended! #BookSky 📚💙

Novel cover showing the title and author name in the foreground. In the background is a three-dimensional yellow hallway, displayed at an angle, seeming to go on for a very long way, and ending in darkness at the center of cover.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy Pub Day! Loved this book, and excited to see it selected as the Aug #gmabookclub pick so even more readers get to experience it. Congrats to Naima Coster and @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Highly recommended! #BookSky 📚💙

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/07/2026

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full:

- The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
- Switzy by Emma Cline
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard
- The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
- The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
- All Them Dogs by Djamel White
- The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy Release Day to Song For Another Home by Bora Lee Reed! Out today and a must for fans of historical fiction. Follows two branches of a family during the war between North and South Korea in the 1950s. Dual narrative, immersive, deeply researched. Highly recommended. #booksky 📚💙 #netgalley

Book cover for Song For Another Home by Bora Lee Reed shows novel title and author name with a background image showing the sky at sunset, the sea, and a mountain backdrop. There is a boat in shadow on the sea with a few people on it. In the foreground of the image, there are floating yellow flowers.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Take What You Can, Naima Coster (rel 8/4): New character-driven fiction from the author of What's Mine and Yours about two best friends. Explores the love between these two women through many experiences and phases of life. Authentic, flawed characters. Recommended. #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley

Book cover for Take What You Can by Naima Coster showing the title and author name, plus a painting of a dining table with colorfully patterned dishes, food, and multiple hands holding different cocktails toward the center of the table in a toast.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

When Mikan Road Was Ours, DK Furutani (rel 7/28): Debut historical fiction and winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us. Dual-timeline family saga covering four generations of a Japanese American family in CA in the 20th century. Compelling with historic detail. Recommend! #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley

Book cover of When Mikan Road Was Ours by D.K. Furutani shows novel and author name, on a background that is a drawing of an orange tree.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Fun night at Malaprop's in Asheville with the wonderful Ruta Sepetys. A Fortune of Sand is immersive historical fiction about a wealthy auto family in 1920s Detroit. Corruption, power, class, sexism, mental health - all explored in an impeccably researched and entertaining story. #BookSky 💙📚

Photo of two women, the author of this post and the writer Ruta Sepetys, standing in front of a blue sign for Malaprop's Bookstore. Ruta Sepetys is holding up a copy of her novel, A Fortune of Sand.

Two physical copies of the novel A Fortune of Sand, one closed to show the cover and one open to show the signature by the writer, as well as swag from the event. Swag pictured includes a bookmark, a coaster set, a sticker, and a small sewing kit.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s the last full week of June, and I’m fully immersed in literary and historical fiction: - Land, Maggie O’Farrell - Song For Another Home, Bora Lee Reed While enjoying a fast-paced thriller as well: - The One Day You Were My Husband, Rosie Walsh What are you reading this week? #BookSky 📚💙

Image showing a green notebook, a collection of book darts, a pen, a Kindle with a red plaid Harris tweed cover, and a hardcover edition of Land by Maggie O’Farrell. The cover has the title and author name, plus a series of concentric circles in earth tones, fading to black in the center.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Murder at the Spirit Lounge, Jess Kidd (pub 6/16) is book 2 in the Nora Breen series. Former nun Nora and Detective Rideout are trying to solve a mystery that begins at a seance. Great writing, immersive 1950s coastal England setting, and a satisfying puzzle. Highly recommend! #booksky #netgalley 📚💙

Book cover of Murder at the Spirit Lounge by Jess Kidd, showing title and author on a red background. In addition, it includes a crystal ball with a coastal town scene inside. Some buildings are shown, along with a coastline, trees, shoreline, and water. The cover also includes some clouds and lightning around the crystal ball.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A Fortune of Sand, Ruta Sepetys (rel 5/26): Adult historical fiction. The story of Marjorie Lennox, her dysfunctional and powerful family, an arts program and its mysterious benefactor, and 1920s Detroit in its Golden Age. Enjoyed this well-researched read about my hometown. #netgalley #booksky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

John of John, Douglas Stuart (rel 5/5): Lit fic about fathers and sons, hidden secrets, religion, and poverty, and what it takes to be fully yourself. Set in the outer Hebrides of Scotland. Claustrophobic and brilliant. Recommend for fans of Stuart and the genre #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Liar's Dice, Juliet Faithfull (rel 4/28): this story of identical twin sisters, set in Brazil during the political unrest of the 1970s, grabbed me from its opening. Recommend esp for readers who gravitate to complicated families. Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Happy Release Day to The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown. Two timelines, a modern academia mystery interwoven with the story of the Holy Maid of Kent. Women navigating patriarchy 500 years apart. See my full review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Releasing tomorrow (4/7): My Dear You, Rachel Khong. A new short story collection. Stories in various genres, all centered on compassion and humanity. Her writing reaches depths with lightness and humor. Especially loved the title story, The Freshening and D Day. Recommended! #netgalley #booksky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Love Tudor history, dark academia and/or mystery? Put The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown (rel 4/14) on your radar. Two timelines, a modern academia mystery interwoven with the story of the Holy Maid of Kent. Women navigating patriarchy 500 years apart. Recommended! #booksky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

All The World Can Hold by Jung Yun, rel 3/10. Passengers sailing on a famous-but-aging cruise to Bermuda, full of their own problems, and departing on Sept 16, 2001? Wow. Great premise, great meta setup, great way to explore the changing world, inside and out. 4+ stars. #booksky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The title alone says that 'Family Drama' by Rebecca Fallon is my cup of tea, so I jumped at the chance to read a review copy. Timeline jumps took me out of the story at times, and I struggled with one relationship, but enjoyed it. I look forward to more from this debut author. #netgalley #booksky📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The title alone says that 'Family Drama' by Rebecca Fallon is my cup of tea, so I jumped at the chance to read a review copy. Timeline jumps took my out of the story at times, and I struggled with one relationship, but enjoyed it. I look forward to more from this debut author. #netgalley #booksky📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Missing Sam by Thrity Umrigar is both a domestic mystery and a complex drama with a multiracial lesbian couple at its center. Highly recommended for fans of family dramas, character-driven mysteries, and queer fiction. Releases on 1/27. #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“Great tragedies don’t ask for great heroes – they ask for ordinary people willing to do the next right thing.” Skylark by Paula McLain is dual-timeline historical fiction at its best. Two stories, centuries apart, connected by Paris. Very relevant to current events. Highly recommend! #BookSky 📚💙

Book cover of Skylark by Paula McLain showing title, author, and text stating that she is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife. Background image of book cover is in two parts. Lower half: A Paris skyline of the Seine at sunset, including bridges and buildings in shadow. Fades to the upper half: A night sky with stars, and an image of a red skylark.

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Governor Josh Stein @ncgovernor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Scrapping tax credits for North Carolina’s clean energy sector is already eliminating good jobs and stunting the economic growth of our emerging clean tech economy. www.newsobserver.com/news/busines...

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NC solar plant closing and cutting 220 jobs amid Trump policies, bankruptcy

This would mark the company’s second round of layoffs this year, and would cut over 78% of its workforce.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy Release Day -- What We Can Know by Ian McEwan! A literary, dual timeline novel set in 2014 and climate ravaged 2119. Beautifully written, and a fascinating look at truth, history, and stories. Recommend! #whatwecanknow #netgalley #booksky 📚💙

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Highly recommend the new historical mystery release 'The Art of a Lie' by Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Great characters, well-plotted, and clever. Plus, well-researched 18th century London! If you love Sarah Waters, I think you might enjoy this. #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Reality TV meets a near-future climate and tech capitalist dystopia in a new, Black Mirroresque novel, The Compound by Aisling Rawle. Best to jump in without much prior knowledge. I had ending issues, but 2+ weeks later, I'm still thinking about it, so would love to discuss. #TheCompound #BookSky 📚💙

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

'The Great Mann' by Kyra Davis Lurie releases today. It's a fresh Gatsby retelling, focused on the wealthy, Black Sugar Hill neighborhood of 1940s LA. Familiar characters, fresh tensions, and an untold history make for one great novel. Highly recommended for historical fiction fans! #BookSky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I enjoyed The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick, though I wanted more complexity & depth. Rare to read a story centered on feminism in the early 1960s. Sadly still very relatable. Highly recommended for fans of Sara Ackerman. 3.5 stars. Thanks to Harper Muse and NetGalley. #BookSky

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 04/04/2025

This website has the list of 65,000 NC residents who need to be contacted to cure their ballots: thegriffinlist.com Please spread it as far and wide as you can

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The Griffin List

A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I read widely. But in Feb, I focus ONLY on Black authors. My 2025 list: - All About Love, hooks - Parable of the Talents, Butler - Good Dirt, Wilkerson - The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (reread) - Memphis, Stringfellow - South to America, Perry (in progress) Highly recommend them all! #BookSky 📚💙

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Speculative fiction at its best from Laila Lalami. Minority Report meets Black Mirror in the most thoughtful and terrifying way. Themes of privacy, surveillance, private prisons, and big tech + capitalism. Highly recommended! Thanks to Pantheon and NetGalley for the eARC. #TheDreamHotel #BookSky

Cover art for The Dream Hotel, a novel by Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize finalist. Book has a purple background with a large orange box in the center, orange box is shaded black inside. There is a shadowed figure standing at the lower right edge of the orange box. Title and author text appears in white above and below the orange box, on the purple background.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’m in post-biologic recovery mode, so I spent the day with Charmaine Wilkerson‘s incredible new novel, ‘Good Dirt’. If I didn’t require food and a nap, I’d be done already. Highly recommend! #booksky 📚💙

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Every Feb, I further my own education by solely focusing on Black authors. Feels esp important rn. This year’s list: - Books in photo - Parable of the Talents, Butler - Salvage the Bones, Ward - all about love, hooks - South to America, Perry - The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread) #BookSky 📚💙

Image of three books stacked on a kitchen counter with a houseplant and barstool in the background. The books are Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson, Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.

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