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- Reader recommendation: American JukeboxMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'Lila' gives us the year鈥檚 sweetest literary love storyIn 'Lila,' Pulitzer Prize-winner Marilynne Robinson takes us back to Iowa.
- John Grisham apologizes for controversial comments about sex offendersBestselling author John Grisham apologized聽Thursday聽for comments he made about what he viewed as overly punitive sentences for those who view child pornography.
- 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 鈥 Part 1': Check out the new trailerThe new movie in the 'Hunger Games' series is being released this November.
- Tourist gets trapped in Waterstones bookstore, sparks jealousyWaterstones patron David Willis tweeted at the Twitter account for the company, alerting them that he was locked inside one of their stores.
- 'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay' forwards the angry, tender story of two Neapolitan womenWith 'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,' Elena Ferrante gives the story of a woman鈥檚 life epic dimension in an interior landscape.
- Reader recommendation: Tuesday Tucks Me InMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Will you discover a great unpublished book through Amazon?The new Kindle Scout program has the average reader voting the books that should be published.
- What topped Facebook's 'books that stayed with you' meme around the world?Last month Facebook analyzed a user meme looking at '10 books that have stayed with you.' Now the company's data scientists have done another analysis looking at responses from foreign-language users and have found some different results.
- 'The Mortal Instruments': New novellas and a TV show are coming'Mortal' author Cassandra Clare is writing a new series of novellas set in the world of the 'Mortal' books, while the books themselves are reportedly being adapted as a TV series.
- Bestselling books the week of 1016/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- 'Gray Mountain' is a satisfying, old-fashioned legal thriller'Mountain' is the newest book by John Grisham that can make a weekend disappear.
- Reader recommendation: MoneyballMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Lena Dunham will adapt 'Catherine, Called Birdy' as a film'Catherine' is by writer Karen Cushman.
- Richard Flanagan takes the Man Booker Prize, National Book Awards finalists are announcedFlanagan took the Man Booker Prize for his book 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' while works such as 'All the Light We Cannot See,' by Anthony Doerr and 'Age of Ambition,' by Evan Osnos made the cut for the National Book Award shortlists.
- 'Deep Down Dark' tells the remarkable story of 33 Chilean miners trapped for 69 daysPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar chronicles the physical and psychological ordeal of the miners with artful suspense and arresting details.
- Reader recommendation: In the Kingdom of IceMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'The American Vice Presidency' sketches all 47 men who held America's second-highest officePolitical journalist Jules Witcover offers interesting biographical detail and helpful historic context on the lives of America's vice presidents.
- Reader recommendation: The Revenge of GeographyMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'The Innovators' traces the history of the computer and its creatorsSteve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson considers the interplay of genius, creativity, and collaboration that helped to produce the computer.