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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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Best Books of 2023: Graphic Novels

by Keith Mosman, November 13, 2023 8:45 AM
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There’s a primal power to combining words with pictures and bookstores in 2023 saw that power being used to beautiful effect. This year we’re highlighting graphic works that run the gamut of genres and age groups.

Below are books about coming of age and books about grief; books about navigating difficult situations and books about giving in to the absurd; works of horror and works of quiet beauty. And then there’s Monica, which does all of that at once...

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Best Books of 2023: Horror

by Kelsey Ford, November 10, 2023 8:48 AM
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In a world as scary as ours is, sometimes you need to sink into a terrifying story to distract yourself. Which is where our list comes in: the best horror of 2023, as determined by Powell’s booksellers, experts in all things macabre and eerie and unnerving. On this list, you’ll find books about vampires and vaqueros, monsters and slashers, curses and carnivorous houses, mermaids and jellyfish and even Tom Cruise.

Get your late-night-reading-oil ready, because you won’t want to put any of these books down. Without further ado: the Best Horror of 2023....

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Best Books of 2023: Romance

by Michelle Carroll, November 8, 2023 10:58 AM
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As a person who tries to avoid spoiler alerts, romance surprised me a little bit — knowing that a happily ever after is most likely at the end of the story should annoy me. But it turns out that I really, really want to know how these crazy kids figure it out, even if their love is broadcast on the first page. These books contain a lot of twists and turns and surprises — secret exes turning up out of the blue! overcoming generational trauma! vampires! — and knowing everything ends up okay makes the journey...

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Rare Book Room Dispatch: Our National Transgressions

by Kirsten Berg, November 7, 2023 8:53 AM
Rare Book Room Dispatch: Our National Transgressions

"And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions…" — George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789

Washington issued a proclamation on October 3, 1789, designating Thursday, November 26 as a national day of thanks.

Perhaps George Washington picked the third Thursday in November because he didn't want another holiday on the calendar too close to the Fourth of July or crowding his own birthday in February. American Thanksgiving has morphed into a holiday...

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Best Books of 2023: Science Fiction & Fantasy

by Sarah Reif, November 6, 2023 9:15 AM
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Welcome readers, to the second of our Best Books of 2023 lists: Science Fiction & Fantasy! Absolutely an excuse for me to run up to booksellers — street-interview style — and demand to know their favorite world-building, magic-systems, and political messes (in SPACE!).

And readers, they delivered.

We’ve got Romantasy (petitioning Merriam-Webster to make this the word of the year); we’ve got veteran romantasy authors returning to beloved series to say “we’ve been doing this!“; we’ve got dragons and more dragons; love letters to books in cozy fantasy settings; unionized dolphins; cyberpunk thrillers about orbital elevators; series conclusions that stick the landing...

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Five Book Friday: Native American Heritage Month

by Bry H. and Jamie W., November 3, 2023 9:28 AM
Five Book Friday: Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and recognize the history and experiences of Indigenous and Native American people. In today’s edition of Five Book Friday, we’re bringing you some important books that better illustrate the experiences of some Indigenous people here in the United States and Canada. It is important to reflect on the experiences of Native Americans year-round, not just in November. One of the ways that we can do that is to decolonize our bookshelves...

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Best Books of 2023: Kids' and Young Adult

by Gigi Little, November 2, 2023 8:10 AM
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It’s coming! Do you feel it? That rumble under your feet? That is the approach of something amazing! In fact, it’s so thunderous that the trees are shaking and the ground is jumping and — careful! — you can hardly stay on your feet, until… almost… almost… YES, it’s here! The very first of Powell’s Best Books of 2023 lists. My very favorite category: Kids and Teens.

No wonder it made such a rumbly ruckus as it came. It’s sooooo heavy — filled with ten tons of terrific tomes: from picture books to medieval romcoms, from graphic memoirs to gothic horror. You’ll find giant jellyfish, brainy minotaurs, witch’s...

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