At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

• Why Don’t The Zombies Fly? The ‘Rules’ of Plausibility: Readers will suspend disbelief. But only to a certain extent.
• Tolstoy’s Prophecies: A new book tells how Russian realist fiction foretold, frustrated, and outlived the Bolshevik quest for certainty.
• Amazon reports that orders of Kamala Harris’ memoir have soared a whopping 60,378%.
• … and publisher plans massive Hillbilly Elegy reprints to meet demand for VP candidate JD Vance’s book.
• … and Melania Trump’s ‘memoir’ is now on sale.
• Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI.
• Why don’t straight men read novels?
• Martin MacInnes wins Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘intense trip’ of a novel.
• Hugo awards organisers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win.
• Why you should buy physical copies of your favorite books.
• Readers Have Thoughts about the NY Times ‘Best Books of the 21st Century’.
•  Indigo removes Alice Munro’s image from bookstores over daughter’s abuse revelations.

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