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

• OpenAI And Microsoft are being sued by nonfiction writers for alleged ‘rampant theft’ of authors’ works.
• About damn time! Stephen King says he may continue the Talisman series.
• Revolutions and rubles, godlings and fascist symbols, Shakespeare and silk: 10 historians choose their favourite new history books of 2023.
• Ben Williams reflects on waking up strange after encounters with his literary heroes.
• Imagine tracking the winners and judges for top literary awards across 75 years. Now you can.
• Need some Christmas present ideas? Behold, the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2023.
• George RR Martin update: He has written 1,100 pages of The Winds of Winter, the same number as last year.
• ‘It took me a decade’: the 2023 Booker prize shortlisted authors on the stories behind their novels.
• Why activism leads to so much bad writing, by George Packer.
• Read an excerpt from Digging Stars, the new book by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma.
• And finally, ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake.

 

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