Author: Danika Ellis

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Most Streamed Audiobooks on Spotify In celebration of Spotify turning 20 this year, they released a list of their most streamed music, podcasts, and audiobooks of all time. It is a little funny to see the audiobooks list titled “Most Streamed Audiobooks in Premium of All Time” considering that audiobooks have only been part of Spotify Premium since late 2023. The titles…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Novel, Survivor, is Being Republished Survivor by Octavia E. Butler was originally published in 1978 as the third book in the Patternist series. Later, Butler derided the book as rushed and undeveloped—she wrote it on a tight deadline to fund a research trip to write Kindred. After 40 years out of print, it’s now being republished. I was initially…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the biggest literary prizes, recognizing “the author of the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK” with a £30,000 prize. Here is this year’s shortlist: Flashlight by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK)Dominion by Addie E. Citchens (Europa…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Most Challenged Books in the US in 2025 The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books in U.S. libraries in 2025. Here are the top ten (okay, eleven): 1. Sold by Patricia McCormick 2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 3. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 4. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas 5. (tie)…

The first thing I read in March was Isn’t It Obvious by Rachel Runya Katz, a bi4bi M/F romance that I really enjoyed. I mean, the main character runs a queer teen book club, so of course I was going to love it. The book I spent most of March reading was Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall, a trans sapphic retelling of Moby Dick set in space. It was fun, but it is fairly long and meandering, like the source material, so it took me a while to finish. I just started The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.…