Five Book Friday
by Leah B., December 2, 2022 9:08 AM
Picture it, my crafty friends: it’s a chilly Sunday afternoon. You’re wearing your softest sweater and warmest socks. You’re settled into your most comfortable armchair with a blanket across your lap. Your favorite mug is beside you, and it’s filled with steaming coffee or tea. You’re listening to an audiobook or perhaps some holiday music. And you’re deep in the flow of your latest craft project...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, November 30, 2022 9:04 AM
I’m sad to say that this is our final list of new translated literature this year — we like to give our booksellers a little bit of a break in December, since we all need a little bit of a break — but what a year it’s been for literature in translation! And this past month was no exception.
Below, you’ll find a Korean memoir that looks at high-functioning depression and anxiety; a bilingual collection of early work from a German-speaking Jewish Romanian poet; a Hungarian short story collection “full of dark humor and sly historical allusions”; a Japanese novel about a lost dog, told through vignettes; a breath-length novel from a Hungarian master...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, November 29, 2022 9:47 AM
It’s nearly the end of Native American Heritage Month, and although we like to celebrate and read Indigenous authors year-round, we didn’t want to miss the opportunity to feature some of our favorite recent nonfiction titles that center Indigenous stories. This is a list filled with books that highlight reclamation, identity, sexuality, climate, and white supremacy (to only name a few) via oral storytelling, art, music, poetry, and interview (to only name a few). This is by no means an exhaustive list (of titles, or subjects), merely a starting point to encourage you to keep reading, keep exploring, and keep learning from Native American voices.
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Lists
by Powell's Books, November 21, 2022 9:17 AM
Every year, Powell's reaches out to some of our favorite authors for some much-needed gift-giving inspiration. Below are 14 writer-approved recommendations to help you find the perfect book for even your most-difficult-to-buy-for loved one...
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Best Books
by Powell's Staff, November 18, 2022 8:46 AM
Best Nonfiction of 2022 | Best Debuts of 2022 | Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Romance & Graphic Novels of 2022 | Best Kids' and YA of 2022
As fun as it is to put these lists together, it’s also so, so difficult, because there are always so many books we want to include. This year, we did our best to contain it to 10 books, but the more we read and discussed and argued, the more we wanted to add an extra 5, and then another 5, which is how we ended up here...
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Lists
by Kelsey Ford, November 15, 2022 9:43 AM
Personally, I think October gets too much credit during spooky season. November is (in my opinion) just as spooky, and since November is also Native American Heritage Month, I wanted to pull together a (by-no-means-exhaustive) list of horror titles from Native American authors. On this list, you’ll find entities and shapeshifters, cosmology and mythology, social commentary and superstition, doomsday preppers and imposters. We know the days are getting shorter, but that just means you’ll have more hours to read these spooky books by candlelight...
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Best Books
by Keith Mosman, November 11, 2022 8:38 AM
After a few years where this category was dominated by books about current events, I was relieved to put this list together and see not just books about important issues of the day, but also a broad variety of books about the world and our place in it. And almost none of them mention the White House! A gift! So maybe take a breather and find a nourishing book on this list; current events will still be here when you finish...
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Best Books
by Keith Mosman, November 9, 2022 8:41 AM
Every year, as I look over upcoming fiction releases, I pay special attention to debut novels and story collections because they bring so much new energy to the bookstore. Debut authors often have fresh ideas about form, and they utilize unique perspectives to spotlight different aspects of human experience — this is especially true in recent years as publishers are working to correct past injustices and produce work by authors from a greater variety of backgrounds and identities...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, November 7, 2022 9:58 AM
Every year, we like to celebrate Native American Heritage Month by featuring a list of recently published books by Native authors. This year, I was struck by how many of the books are debuts, and how many of them manage to masterfully walk that tightrope line of tone — they’re often hilarious and moving in equal measure, while interrogating the difficult topics of colonialism, white supremacy, generational trauma, and cycles of addiction, displacement, and dispossession (just to name a few)...
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Five Book Friday
by Keith Mosman, November 4, 2022 12:58 PM
We recently highlighted a selection of works by authors of Korean heritage, as a part of our Read The World series. Choosing titles for the display was a real joy — researching release dates, balancing genres and subjects, and reading a ton of great books. The downside to putting together a title list for a subject that you love is that you can’t include everything you’d like, and this list was especially difficult to narrow down...
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