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

• Looking for something to read? Try the New York Times Book Review’s best books from 2000 to 2023.
• 10 rules for reading from someone who does it for a living.
• What I’ve Learned – Stephen King: ‘I’ve been in recovery a day at a time for a long time now.’
• Margaret Atwood publishes limited-edition chapbook to raise funds for bird conservation.
• Understanding Edgar Allan Poe.
• Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor: Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Overdue Book Returned to Library After 105 Years (the $14,000 fine was waived).
• No one buys books: Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
• Unknown CS Lewis poem on whisky and warm blankets discovered!
• The End of Private Libraries?
• Audible to turn all seven of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into full-cast audiobooks.
• Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author: On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing.
• John Logan has been tapped to write the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’.
• Flashback Friday: David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner interview on Charlie Rose (1996).
• And finally, ‘Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!’ – this famous 100-letter construction represents the sound of the fall of Adam and Eve in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake – a short intro to James Joyce.

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