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Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her)
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Chronically ill bookworm, ARC/ALC reader, and gluten-free wanderer. Often on the road, traveling in books daily. #BookSky 💙📚 #ChronicIllness #Travel
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Happy Pub Day to Under Story by Chloe Benjamin! I loved it. The ideas she explores are bold and often mind-bending, and this novel’s heart for humanity is huge. I read it in July and I'm still thinking about it. Thanks to @putnambooks.bsky.social for the ARC. #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley #UnderStory
Cover image of the novel Under Story by Chloe Benjamin, showing the title and author in mirror arc images. The background of both is a sky with clouds. The cover also includes this text: "We wake up to tomorrow. Never yesterday."
September 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Happy US Pub Day to The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett. Her epistolary mysteries are clever, unique, and so much fun! The latest is no exception. Highly recommended for readers who love to play the detective. Thanks to @atriabooks.bsky.social for the ARC! #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley #TheSilentAppeal
This image shows the book cover of The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett, including the book title and author's name, and her status as a Sunday Times Bestselling Author, along with some review quotes. Also shown is a drawn image of an English village, with blood spatters on the cover. And finally, the words "A New Play. Another Murder. Who Will Speak The Truth?"
September 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
August 25, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Happy Pub Day to The Camino by Anya Niewierra, tra. Eileen Stevens! I loved this literary thriller about a woman walking the Camino de Santiago, the path her husband took one year earlier when he died. Great for Women in Translation month. Content warnings. Thanks @simonbooks.bsky.social. #BookSky
Novel cover of The Camino by Anya Niewierra, translated by Eileen Stevens. Cover shows the title, author, and translator. Background image is a picture of the hiking trail in yellows and browns, with a woman walking alone. The cover has an "x" which appears to be sliced across it, as with a knife.
August 25, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Interested in (re)visiting East of Eden before the Netflix adaptation drops on 10/1? I’m cohosting a read along, starting tomorrow (8/24). Join us on IG and/or Fable (fable.co/club/east-of...). Suggested reading schedule posting later tonight! #EastOfEdenReadAlong #BookSky 📚💙
Image showing the book cover of East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and titled Join Us for an East of Eden Read Along. Also says that the goal is to read the book before watching the Netflix adaptation. Starts on 8/25, hosted on IG and Fable by @chronicallybooked and @betsyreadsbooks
August 23, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Happy Pub Day to The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen from @stmartinspress.bsky.social. A compelling dual-timeline historical thriller that digs into the disturbing past of parapsychology. Inspired by real experiments at Duke University, this is two mysteries in one. Highly recommended! #BookSky 📚💙
Novel cover showing the title and author name in the foreground. In the background is a three-dimensional yellow hallway, displayed at an angle, seeming to go on for a very long way, and ending in darkness at the center of cover.
August 4, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Happy Pub Day! Loved this book, and excited to see it selected as the Aug #gmabookclub pick so even more readers get to experience it. Congrats to Naima Coster and @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Highly recommended! #BookSky 📚💙
chronicallybooked.bsky.social Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · Jul 15
Take What You Can, Naima Coster (rel 8/4): New character-driven fiction from the author of What's Mine and Yours about two best friends. Explores the love between these two women through many experiences and phases of life. Authentic, flawed characters. Recommended. #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley
Book cover for Take What You Can by Naima Coster showing the title and author name, plus a painting of a dining table with colorfully patterned dishes, food, and multiple hands holding different cocktails toward the center of the table in a toast.
August 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Happy release day! #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley #AtriaBooks
chronicallybooked.bsky.social Jessica Hawk-Tillman (she/her) @chronicallybooked.bsky.social · Jul 15
When Mikan Road Was Ours, DK Furutani (rel 7/28): Debut historical fiction and winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us. Dual-timeline family saga covering four generations of a Japanese American family in CA in the 20th century. Compelling with historic detail. Recommend! #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley
Book cover of When Mikan Road Was Ours by D.K. Furutani shows novel and author name, on a background that is a drawing of an orange tree.
July 28, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist.

Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
The Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full: - The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis - Switzy by Emma Cline - Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman - The End of Everything by M. John Harrison - The Disappearers by Marlon James - Black Bag by Luke Kennard - The Renovation by Kenan Orhan - May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry - The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley - The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout - John of John by Douglas Stuart - All Them Dogs by Djamel White - The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams The Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full: - The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis - Switzy by Emma Cline - Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman - The End of Everything by M. John Harrison - The Disappearers by Marlon James - Black Bag by Luke Kennard - The Renovation by Kenan Orhan - May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry - The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley - The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout - John of John by Douglas Stuart - All Them Dogs by Djamel White - The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams
July 28, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Happy Release Day to Song For Another Home by Bora Lee Reed! Out today and a must for fans of historical fiction. Follows two branches of a family during the war between North and South Korea in the 1950s. Dual narrative, immersive, deeply researched. Highly recommended. #booksky 📚💙 #netgalley
Book cover for Song For Another Home by Bora Lee Reed shows novel title and author name with a background image showing the sky at sunset, the sea, and a mountain backdrop. There is a boat in shadow on the sea with a few people on it. In the foreground of the image, there are floating yellow flowers.
July 21, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Take What You Can, Naima Coster (rel 8/4): New character-driven fiction from the author of What's Mine and Yours about two best friends. Explores the love between these two women through many experiences and phases of life. Authentic, flawed characters. Recommended. #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley
Book cover for Take What You Can by Naima Coster showing the title and author name, plus a painting of a dining table with colorfully patterned dishes, food, and multiple hands holding different cocktails toward the center of the table in a toast.
July 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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When Mikan Road Was Ours, DK Furutani (rel 7/28): Debut historical fiction and winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us. Dual-timeline family saga covering four generations of a Japanese American family in CA in the 20th century. Compelling with historic detail. Recommend! #BookSky 📚💙 #NetGalley
Book cover of When Mikan Road Was Ours by D.K. Furutani shows novel and author name, on a background that is a drawing of an orange tree.
July 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Whether you’re looking for a book to pack on your summer vacation or just looking to travel on the page, I put together a set of destination-based book recs spanning genres to cover lots of summer reading moods. Check it out on my IG (blog coming soon). #BookSky 📚💙 #summereading
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July 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Fun night at Malaprop's in Asheville with the wonderful Ruta Sepetys. A Fortune of Sand is immersive historical fiction about a wealthy auto family in 1920s Detroit. Corruption, power, class, sexism, mental health - all explored in an impeccably researched and entertaining story. #BookSky 💙📚
Photo of two women, the author of this post and the writer Ruta Sepetys, standing in front of a blue sign for Malaprop's Bookstore. Ruta Sepetys is holding up a copy of her novel, A Fortune of Sand. Two physical copies of the novel A Fortune of Sand, one closed to show the cover and one open to show the signature by the writer, as well as swag from the event. Swag pictured includes a bookmark, a coaster set, a sticker, and a small sewing kit.
July 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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It’s the last full week of June, and I’m fully immersed in literary and historical fiction:

- Land, Maggie O’Farrell
- Song For Another Home, Bora Lee Reed

While enjoying a fast-paced thriller as well:

- The One Day You Were My Husband, Rosie Walsh

What are you reading this week? #BookSky 📚💙
Image showing a green notebook, a collection of book darts, a pen, a Kindle with a red plaid Harris tweed cover, and a hardcover edition of Land by Maggie O’Farrell. The cover has the title and author name, plus a series of concentric circles in earth tones, fading to black in the center.
June 22, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Murder at the Spirit Lounge, Jess Kidd (pub 6/16) is book 2 in the Nora Breen series. Former nun Nora and Detective Rideout are trying to solve a mystery that begins at a seance. Great writing, immersive 1950s coastal England setting, and a satisfying puzzle. Highly recommend! #booksky #netgalley 📚💙
Book cover of Murder at the Spirit Lounge by Jess Kidd, showing title and author on a red background. In addition, it includes a crystal ball with a coastal town scene inside. Some buildings are shown, along with a coastline, trees, shoreline, and water. The cover also includes some clouds and lightning around the crystal ball.
June 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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A Fortune of Sand, Ruta Sepetys (rel 5/26): Adult historical fiction. The story of Marjorie Lennox, her dysfunctional and powerful family, an arts program and its mysterious benefactor, and 1920s Detroit in its Golden Age. Enjoyed this well-researched read about my hometown. #netgalley #booksky 📚💙
May 22, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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John of John, Douglas Stuart (rel 5/5): Lit fic about fathers and sons, hidden secrets, religion, and poverty, and what it takes to be fully yourself. Set in the outer Hebrides of Scotland. Claustrophobic and brilliant. Recommend for fans of Stuart and the genre #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙
April 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Liar's Dice, Juliet Faithfull (rel 4/28): this story of identical twin sisters, set in Brazil during the political unrest of the 1970s, grabbed me from its opening. Recommend esp for readers who gravitate to complicated families. Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #NetGalley #BookSky 📚💙
April 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Happy Release Day to The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown. Two timelines, a modern academia mystery interwoven with the story of the Holy Maid of Kent. Women navigating patriarchy 500 years apart. See my full review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky 📚💙
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April 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Releasing tomorrow (4/7): My Dear You, Rachel Khong. A new short story collection. Stories in various genres, all centered on compassion and humanity. Her writing reaches depths with lightness and humor. Especially loved the title story, The Freshening and D Day. Recommended! #netgalley #booksky 📚💙
April 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Love Tudor history, dark academia and/or mystery? Put The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown (rel 4/14) on your radar. Two timelines, a modern academia mystery interwoven with the story of the Holy Maid of Kent. Women navigating patriarchy 500 years apart. Recommended! #booksky 📚💙
March 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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All The World Can Hold by Jung Yun, rel 3/10. Passengers sailing on a famous-but-aging cruise to Bermuda, full of their own problems, and departing on Sept 16, 2001? Wow. Great premise, great meta setup, great way to explore the changing world, inside and out. 4+ stars. #booksky 📚💙
March 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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The title alone says that 'Family Drama' by Rebecca Fallon is my cup of tea, so I jumped at the chance to read a review copy. Timeline jumps took me out of the story at times, and I struggled with one relationship, but enjoyed it. I look forward to more from this debut author. #netgalley #booksky📚💙
February 23, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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The title alone says that 'Family Drama' by Rebecca Fallon is my cup of tea, so I jumped at the chance to read a review copy. Timeline jumps took my out of the story at times, and I struggled with one relationship, but enjoyed it. I look forward to more from this debut author. #netgalley #booksky📚💙
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM