Audiobook listeners in the US and UK can now see the most popular titles on Spotify via the platform’s new Audiobooks Charts.

The charts , which are updated weekly, are free for all users and include an overall Top Audiobooks US list along with dedicated lists for popular genres, including romance, mystery and thriller, self-help, sci-fi and fantasy, and biography and memoir.

To access the Audiobooks Charts:

1. Open the Spotify app on your device
2. Click Search
3. Click on Audiobooks Hub
4. Scroll down to Dive Deeper
5. Click on Audiobooks Charts

📈 Currently #1 on the US charts: Wuthering Heights . Boy, are moviegoers seeking more spicy moments on the moors about to be surprised.

As part of its 125th Anniversary, the New York Public Library revealed its 10 most checked out books of all time.

The NYPL notes that several factors contribute to a book being on this list, from being available in multiple languages to being short (allowing more turnover). None of the factors are that surprising, and on the whole, the list is not all that surprising, either. Here are the top five, with total checkout data:

1. Edward’s Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (485,583 checkouts)
2. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (469,650 checkouts)
3. 1984 by George Orwell (441,700 checkouts)
4. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (436,016 checkouts)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (422,912 checkouts)
   

You can browse the full list here.

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There’s never a bad time to add more queer books by Black authors to your TBR, but Black History Month is an especially good time to do so, especially if you’re buying them from a Black-owned bookstore.

Here are some of the most exciting new queer books by Black authors coming at us this year, so get your preorder fingers ready.

• 🏳️‍🌈 They All Fall in Love at the End by Haili Blassingame (June 2): a messy polyamorous bisexual quadrangle.
• 🏳️‍🌈 There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood by Rasheed Newson (June 2): a Hollywood "backlot fixer" who kept stars in the closet reveals the secret life of a famous 1950s actor.
• 🏳️‍🌈 Fire Sword and Sea by Vanessa Riley (out now): the real pirates of the Caribbean were queer Black women!
• 🏳️‍🌈 Last First Kiss by Julian Winters (out now): a pansexual, demisexual, second-chance M/M romance set at a wedding.
• 🏳️‍🌈 The Feywild Job (Dungeons & Dragons) by C. L. Polk (June 30): a nonbinary romantasy heist story set in the Feywild! Queer D&D fans, rejoice!

👉 Find 21 more queer books by Black authors out in 2026 over at the Our Queerest Shelves newsletter, and sign up for more queer book news and recommendations. -DE

One of the biggest American literary movements was the Harlem Renaissance. Spanning from about 1917 through the late 1920s, this era saw a massive celebration and proliferation of Black art, culture, and writing, including a rich array of publications called “little magazines.”

• These literary journals could be compared to the ‘zine movement of the late 20th century—the little magazines allowed space for not just poetry and prose, but also for essays of radicalism, of experimental writing, and for space for subversion.
• Many of the magazines included critiques of the established (read: white) culture, as well as commentary about the work of other Black leaders.
• Little magazines were founded by individuals or small groups of creatives, and they were bastions of independence from the established literary culture.

One of the cornerstones of the little magazines was their focus on publishing new and little-known voices, right alongside some of the powerhouses of Black literature. The magazines were primarily distributed locally, though some had a more national reach.

• This, of course, influenced the voices and perspectives presented and the intended audiences for the magazines.

Little magazines , as vital as they were to the Harlem Renaissance and literary history, are exceedingly hard to track down, and because they had such short runs and were spearheaded by a single or small group of individuals, very few still survive. Moreover, many are likely not even known to us today. 

That doesn’t mean that diving into the little magazines is impossible. Here’s where to find archives:

• The Messenger via Hathi Trust (1917 and onward).
• FIRE!! Devoted To Younger Negro Artists via the POC Zine Project (1926)
• The Opportunity via Hathi Trust (1923 and onward)

Learn more about little magazines here and here.

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Every Thursday, we keep track of the bestselling books according to all the lists—because the bestseller lists don’t always agree.

Here are the three titles new to the round-up:

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, which is enjoying a bump in readership thanks to the buzz about the upcoming movie adaptation
• Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman, a sci-fi adventure from the author of the mega-popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series
• Little Blue Truck’s Valentine written by Alice Schertle and illustrated by Jill McElmurry, which is one of many kids’ Valentine’s Day books on the Publishers Weekly and USA Today bestseller lists this week

The only books on all five bestseller lists are Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid and Theo of Golden by Allen Levi.

Other bestsellers you should know about include The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao, Black AF History by Michael Harriot, and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. —DE

🎬 America’s dad is set to star as Abraham Lincoln in an upcoming film adaptation of George Saunders’s 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

On the one hand, it is no surprise to see Tom Hanks play a major historical figure from American history. And Abraham Lincoln is a favorite of actors to take on, with beautiful language and sideburns abounding. But this is not going to be like any Abraham Lincoln story you’ve seen before.

Saunders’s modern masterpiece is far stranger than any version of Lincoln you will likely have seen, or imagined possible. Duke Johnson, whose best-known directing credit to this point was the stop-motion Anomalisa, based on a Charlie Kaufman script, is attached to direct. That should tell you something about what (not) to expect. - JO

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