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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.

Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025

Obama’s now semi-annual drop of his favorite books of the year has become possibly the most anticipated list in the publishing world. I haven’t seen (o...

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Today’s Featured Book Deals

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This week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan Congressional watchdog group, released a new report on the state of U.S. public library buildings. The results are not good. American library buildings are crumbling, and more and more necessary maintenance is being deferred.

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It regularly surprises people to learn that America’s history includes a period of time when books were burned. The surprise comes in part because there’s a lack of knowledge about how book censorship has been fundamental in American history and in part because the American government spent a lot of time, money, and energy delivering propaganda during World War II about Nazi ...

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What are the most popular library book checkouts from 2025? While there is no definitive answer, we have a number of tools we can pull from to make some educated guesses. Among them are the increasingly popular “Your Library Wrapped” social posts that circulate this time of year.

Looking at 40 different top library book checkout lists from big and small public librari...

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