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Our booksellers across the country have spoken. We are delighted to announce that our 2025 Book of the Year is Mona’s Eyes, the international sensation by Thomas Schlesser. Our 2025 Gift Book of the Year is Good Things by Samin Nosrat. And finally – meet our 2025 Children’s Book of the Year winners. We present to you two heartwarming adventures, both equally deserving of the spotlight. I Am Rebel by Ross Montgomery and Growing Home by Beth Ferry with art by The Fan Brothers. #BNBoty

Next Tuesday at 10am, I will be in conversation with Katherine Rundell with my colleague Shelby Rivera. We will dive into the Archipelago together and talk about Impossible Creatures and The Poisoned King. Educators, tune in live with your class for your chance to ask Katherine a question! The recording will be available after our conversation as well.

“Chato’s Kitchen” and “Chato and the Party Animals” left a lasting mark, seeing my culture through both the art and writing was eye-opening. – Domonik, Bookseller

Our School Resource Teams are incredible! Thanks, Jen Zidon and team.

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Hi, I’m Lucie Butler, a bookseller from B&N Athens. There have been two books published in the last year that really spoke to me. The first is Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven. The way Steven portrayed and wrote about love was so unique to me. I really appreciated the wide range of displays of love between humans throughout the thousands of lifetimes. She did a fantastic job of encapsulating love for people not based on appearances, but on their souls, and that really hit home. With Bury Our Bones by V.E. Schwab, I was able to get an early copy of it, and I’ve thought about this book every single day since I read it. I was enthralled by Schwab’s storytelling and the way she wrote a vampire story unlike any other I’ve read before. It was toxic, messy, dark, and sapphic, and I think it was the perfect blend of romance and fantasy combined into one beautifully haunting read. #readwithpride

Trois femmes. Trois lieux. Trois époques. Un jeu de miroir. Un fil conducteur : « Mrs Dalloway » de Virginia Woolf. Trois destins qui convergent. Une méditation sur l’amour, sur le temps qui file entre les doigts, sur la fragilité de nos vies, sur la valeur de nos vies. Michael Cunningham a tout simplement écrit le livre que nous rêvons tous d’écrire. Three women. Three places. Three eras. A mirror game. A common thread: Virginia Woolf's “Mrs Dalloway”. Three destinies that converge. A meditation on love, on time slipping through our fingers, on the fragility of our lives, on the value of our lives. Michael Cunningham has written the book we all dream of writing. - Phillipe Besson, author of In the Absence of Men #readwithpride

I first read Jeannette Winterson’s novel Written on the Body in 1995, after borrowing it from my hometown’s public library, and it was a revelation. The story of an unnamed and ungendered narrator who loves and lusts after a married woman named Louise, it was both brainy and erotic, and structurally adventurous. By my early teens, I already knew I wanted to be a writer and had loved many books, but had read few that struck that particular sense of I want to be able to do that on the page. This was one of the first. It has remained a touchstone ever since. I thought of it many times while writing The Dry Season, a book in which I wanted to vividly capture both the intellectual and erotic experience of a year spent celibate but in deep sensual connection with myself and the world. Deep House by Jeremy Atherton Lin From the author of Gay Bar, the gorgeous and sexy love story of Lin’s relationship with his now-husband interweaves with a scrupulously researched history of gay marriage in the United States—there is so much to love about this book, and I did all of it. It’s a book best read in both of its settings: the U.S. and U.K., but especially San Francisco. Stag Dance by Torrey Peters This novella and stories kept me rapt, and I’ve read few recent books that were quite as funny and devastating. Peters writes the most vulnerable parts of love and desire so well that it’s almost hard to take but also impossible to turn away from. For me, its pristine sentences and queer cringe make for a perfect beach read. - Melissa Febos, Author of The Dry Season #readwithpride

I first read "Becoming A Man" by Paul Monette when I was 20 years old and desperately trying to figure out how to come out of the closet. I recently re-read the book and was struck by Monette's candor, use of language, and above all, his ability to fight through fear to become his authentic self. - Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age #readwithpride