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Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 20

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2020 | 📖 Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz | United Kingdom | 596 pages | 🏆 | 2020 | 📖 The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier | France | 391 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2020 | 📖 Love in Color by Bolu Babalola | United Kingdom | 290 pages | @boluberry 2024 | 📖 Magpie and Other Stories by Sarah Hegarty | United Kingdom | 123 pages | @sarahhegartywriter 2024 | 📖 The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones | United States | 192 pages | 🏆 | 2024 | 📖 The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera | United States | 368 pages | 2024 | 📖 We, the Kindling by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek | Canada | 256 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2024 | 📖 Hollow Out the Dark by James Wade | United States | 328 pages | 2024 | 📖 Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett | United States | 64 pages | 2024 | 📖 A Pair of Wings by Carole Hopson | United States | 432 pages | @carolehopson_ 2024 | 📖 Keeper of the Rend by Lisa Maxwell | United States | 320 pages | @lisamaxwellya 2024 | 📖 Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague | United States | 304 pag...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 19

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1843 | 📖 The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe | United States | 20 pages | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 1914 | 📖 On Trial by Elmer Rice | United States | 112 pages | 🏆 | 1999 | 📖 Ghostwritten by David Mitchell | United Kingdom | 426 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2010 | 📖 Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson | United Kingdom | 350 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2025 | 📖 We Computers by Hamid Ismailov | Uzbekistan / United Kingdom | 296 pages | 🏆 | 2025 | 📖 Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos | United States | 248 pages | @nataliebakopoulos 2025 | 📖 Dominion by Addie E. Citchens | United States | 336 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @addiecitchens 2025 | 📖 The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman | United States | 432 pages | @sharonkurtzman 2025 | 📖 The Last Assignment by Erika Robuck | United States | 448 pages | @erobuckauthor 2025 | 📖 What We Left Unsaid by Winnie M. Li | United Kingdom | 368 pages | @winniemli 2025 | 📖 Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs | United States | 710 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @nicholastboggs 2025 | 📖 Leve...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 18

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2014 | 📖 After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones | United States | 310 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @stephengrahamjones 2014 | 📖 The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili | Georgia / Germany | 944 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2020 | 📖 When These Mountains Burn by David Joy | United States | 272 pages | 🏆 | @davidjoy_author 2025 | 📖 The Friendship List by Beth Miller | United Kingdom | 342 pages | 2025 | 📖 Coelia Concordia: The Last Vestal Virgin of Rome by Debra May Macleod | United Kingdom | 506 pages | 2026 | 📖 How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop by Poppy Alexander | United Kingdom | 352 pages | @poppyalexanderbooks 2026 | 📖 The Breakup by Kurt Andersen | United States | 576 pages | @kurtbandersen 2026 | 📖 The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty | United States | 336 pages | 2026 | 📖 Better Than Revenge by Bea Fitzgerald | United Kingdom | 448 pages | @chaosonolympus 2026 | 📖 Unprecedented Times by Malavika Kannan | United States | 352 pages | @malavika.kannan 2026 | 📖 The S...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 17

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1945 | 📖 Animal Farm by George Orwell | United Kingdom | 141 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 2019 | 📖 The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar | Australia / Iran | 268 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @shokoofeh.azar 2023 | 📖 Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix | France | 122 pages | 🏆 | 2023 | 📖 Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno | France | 198 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 |