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- Reader recommendation: Cat's CradleMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 8/30/12, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- Please burn your 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' urges one British charityWearside Women in Need is so outraged by the sado-masochistic bestseller it has organized a 鈥淔ifty Shades of Grey鈥 book burning.
- Gravity's EnginesWith 'Gravity's Engines,' Caleb Scharf establishes himself as one of the finest space storytellers.
- Reader recommendation: Gemini ShipMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Navy SEAL author's identity is revealedThe author of 'No Easy Day' 鈥 the book on the Osama bin Laden mission 鈥 is reportedly Matt Bissonette, who has been awarded five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
- The Bookscore: the new Rotten Tomatoes for books?The website The Bookscore rounds up book reviews, assigns a ranking, and lets readers discuss literary news.
- Haruki Murakami: early leader in Nobel Prize predictionsBritish gambling site Ladbrokes puts Japanese author Haruki Murakami at odds of 10/1 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Do sad songs make us feel better?Adam Brent Houghtaling explores melancholy music and how it affects us.
- Reader recommendation: The Twelfth PlanetMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Castro and Chavez working on a book?A pro-government Cuban blogger claims that former leader Fidel Castro is now collaborating on a book with Hugo Chavez.
- Navy SEAL Osama bin Laden book: Too 'top secret' to be published?Navy SEAL Osama book: Will the US military and CIA allow the book by a Navy SEAL who was on the Osama bin Laden raid, be published?
- Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer come to TVA modern update of Sherlock Holmes will air this fall, while a show following Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is being developed.
- Gore Vidal biography will be released in 2015Vidal's close friend, author and academic Jay Parini, will write the biography.
- J.K. Rowling will come to New York for 'Casual Vacancy'J.K. Rowling will be interviewed by Ann Patchett at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Oct. 16.
- Navy Seal is reported to be publishing a book about the bin Laden raidPenguin is reported to be publishing a major, first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, scheduled for release on Sept. 11.
- Conservative books are leaping off the shelves, says Amazon. Liberal titles, not so much.According to a new heat map by Amazon, readers in 44 states prefer conservative 'red' books to liberal 'blue.'
- 3 smart novels for the last weeks of summer Three male characters head to the desert hoping to change their lives.
- Reader recommendation: The Passage of PowerMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Homeschooling: 5 stories from a mother who tried it From Quinn Cummings' book 'The Year of Learning Dangerously,' 5 stories from a mother trying to homeschool her kids for the first time.