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New Literature in Translation: November 2023

by Powell's Staff, November 29, 2023 9:33 AM
New Literature in Translation: November 2023

Here we are, with our final literature in translation round-up of 2023! And what a year it’s been, full of great books from around the world, all enthusiastically recommended by Powell’s booksellers. We’ll be back with a new post in January 2024, but until then, we hope you enjoy these eight new titles, released in November. On this list, you’ll find a tender novel about friendship from Mexico; “a sordid tale of a man on the run” from a Brazilian legend; a Lebanese-French author’s wild tale...

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Best Books of 2023: Fiction

by Powell's Staff, November 17, 2023 9:16 AM
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2023 was such a great year for fiction! We had the hardest time narrowing down our list of the best fiction books of the year, but after much debate, we settled on these 23 (an appropriate number for 2023, we decided). The books on this list take place in Hawaii, Argentina, the Hamptons, a Palace in the desert, and a land of milk and honey. We’ve got campus novels and high-concept museums, fictional biographies and black holes, ugly publishing truths and gladiatorial dystopias...

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Best Books of 2023: Nonfiction

by Powell's Staff, November 15, 2023 9:25 AM
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If there’s one thing you know you can rely on, it’s the good taste of Powell’s booksellers, which is soundly reflected in this year’s collection of nonfiction books that we thought were the best from this past year. On this list, you’ll find bookstores and hot dogs, doppelgangers and wolves, celebrities and shitty crafts. These books explore questions of identity, belonging, community, resistance, capitalism, colonialism, to name just a few of their topics; they’re tender and hilarious and heartfelt and insightful...

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New Releases for Native American Heritage Month 2023

by Powell's Staff, November 1, 2023 9:08 AM
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Every year, we like to celebrate Native American Heritage Month by featuring a list of recently published books by Native authors. This year, we’re featuring new titles that are filled with hauntings and curses, creatures and body horror, witches and missing children, Vikings and dragons, tradition and historical dispossession, apocalypses and landscapes corroded by grief. These stories are filled with questions about belonging, community, identity, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous identity...

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Creatures & Cryptids: 11 Creepy-Crawly Books to Read

by Powell's Staff, October 27, 2023 9:11 AM
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In our third and final blog feature for this Halloween season, we’re featuring books that are filled with creatures and cryptids. In these books, you’ll find curses and family trauma, monsters of the deep and monsters of the mind, Bigfoot and deadly deer, anthropomorphic animals and Frankensteined children, mermaids and vampires. Happy Halloween, you lovely readers...

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New Literature in Translation: October 2023

by Powell's Staff, October 26, 2023 9:36 AM
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As I write this, the weather outside has gone from sunny to gloomy and rainy: perfect reading weather. To celebrate, we’ve pulled together a list of our favorite works in translation published this last month. On this list, you’ll find a tender and melancholy novella from Japan; a satirical novel about undocumented workers in Paris from an Ivorian author; an award-winning author co-translates herself from Italian, in a myriad of stories about Rome; an acutely, beautifully written story collection...

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Flesh & Meat & Blood: 11 Bone-Chilling Books for Friday the 13th

by Powell's Staff, October 13, 2023 9:34 AM
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Happy Friday the 13th, dear readers! And in October, no less, a month when sinking into our newest horror obsessions isn’t only recommended — it’s encouraged. Today, we’re kicking off a few weeks of horror-themed lists on the blog with one that focuses on all things fleshy, bloody, and meaty. In the weeks to come, we’ll be recommending more fright-season-appropriate books about creatures and ghouls and ghosts and cryptids for your reading pleasure. But for now, please enjoy this list of books...

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9 New Nonfiction Books for Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month 2023

by Powell's Staff, October 5, 2023 11:14 AM
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In celebration of this year’s Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month, we’re excited to recommend nine (relatively) new nonfiction releases that we’re sure you’ll love. This list is filled with vital, polyphonic stories about love and community, colonialism and migration, ancestral history and Latine identity, land and movement, memory and loss. Looking for more?...

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20% Donation on 20 Books: Buy Banned Books and Support American Booksellers for Free Expression

by Powell's Staff, October 2, 2023 9:20 AM
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Banned Books Week (in 2023, the week spans from October 1–7) is an important time here at Powell’s. We believe in everyone’s freedom to read and to seek out and express ideas. When a book is threatened, our community is threatened.

This year, we are donating 20% of the sales on Powells.com of the 20 titles listed below, all of which are frequently banned or challenged books, to American Booksellers for Free Expression. ABFE's programming and advocacy work ensures...

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Powell's 2023 Book Preview: The Fourth Quarter

by Powell's Staff, September 29, 2023 9:28 AM
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For our final Book Preview of 2024, we thought we’d look at our list by the numbers (since math is such a bookseller forte). On this list, you’ll find 53 books, including 3 memoirs, 4 debut novels, 2 anthologies, 7 follow-ups to debuts that we’ve been rabidly anticipating, 5 new entries into beloved series, and 4 cookbooks. In their blurbs, Powell’s booksellers say words like love (22), funny (6), can’t wait (8), feral (2), spellbinding (1), legendary (2), change (4), hope (3), joy (3), horror/horrifying...

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