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

• 82 Anticipated African Books of 2024, courtesy of Brittle Paper.
• Why So Many Authors Are Writing Multigenerational Stories? Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment.
• An African literature scholar has uncovered a forgotten poem by influential Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ.
• How The Postman Always Rings Twice got its ‘sort of crazy’ name.
• Gen Z is ‘rediscovering’ the public library: Young people are using the hallowed institutions at higher rates than older generations.
• Why Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning Prophet Song is a ‘truly horrifying novel’.
• Fed up with Goodreads? Here are the best book-logging apps for 2024.
• A bestselling author is facing scrutiny for sending emails to book influencers, asking them to take risqué videos with his latest book in exchange for payment.
• The Taliban confiscated at least 50,000 books from publishers and bookshops in the Afghan capital this week, and banned 100 from sale, because they violated ‘national and Islamic values’.
• In spite of a strong 2023, Audible is cutting its staff by 5%.

 

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