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If you were transported to the setting of the book you're currently reading, where would you be?

Happy #ReadABookDay! 📖 Shout out your fav current reads in the replies, we need some recommendations ⬇️✨ https://t.co/ED4vzKVAzj

‘Keegan does something rare in creating archives of unhappiness, showing the way one sorrow may reverberate with another, how pressure can activate the pain of an old bruise.’ @susannahclapp on @TheBookerPrizes-shortlisted ‘Small Things Like These’: https://t.co/TjhdJlybqB https://t.co/th9JadcH0G

“Reading these books by other mixed Asian writers nonetheless helped me understand and come to terms with feelings of un/belonging and dislocation.” https://t.co/Qo6R8jaTdA

These middle grade books show the challenges kids face when moving to a new country, like feeling like an outsider, among other things. #ad @SourcebooksKids https://t.co/QkmWBfYlZA

Meet this year's six finalists for the Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards (via @nytimes) ... https://t.co/RW8A98QE3v

"When I entered the world of literary podcasts back in 2016, I had no idea that I had entered a community that would change my reading life." https://t.co/XDI9O0gAPi

‘In 1941 the Japanese, British and American navies had been similar in size – about two million tonnes of warships for Japan and 2.5 million each for the US and UK. By 1944 the US had ten million tonnes of warships.’ @TomFStevenson on sea power: https://t.co/yt1WeNYK9R

Join @PoliticsProse and Evan Thomas in DC tonight at 7 p.m. for a conversation with @jonathandarman (BECOMING FDR: THE PERSONAL CRISIS THAT MADE A PRESIDENT, @randomhouse)! It's our Spotlight Event: https://t.co/KaPJiwlptJ https://t.co/7lPsDb5aQG

"The books that filled the school libraries hadn’t given me the heads up about what my body would represent to my eventual partners and to the world." https://t.co/rqNfXRFXTn

"Memoirs and graphic memoirs, genre-defying hybrid works that blend history, travel writing, science, and more" are all coming out this fall from indie presses! https://t.co/yZQqVfRKNh

Bulawayo joins a long list of African novelists – Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor – who argue the project of nation-building or reconciliation requires reimagining the past. Kevin Okoth on Booker-shortlisted ‘Glory’: https://t.co/YW2GnUfi5r

On loss, a shared love of “The Secret History,” and writing through grief. https://t.co/i2cxffUaJ0

Bookstores for all your literary and critterary needs. https://t.co/EdbFL8BJJ2

"he brought his poet’s eye to his writing within the genre, drawing comparisons to Henry James and Phillip Roth by other writers." https://t.co/bZJGlaR7Cp