Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 11
1980 | 📖 Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 592 pages | 🏆 | @joycecaroloates3146 2020 | 📖 Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses | United States | 317 pages | 🏆 | @m.salesses 2026 | 📖 Under the Falls by Richard Russo | United States | 256 pages | 2026 | 📖 Mia by Leslie Bazzett | United States | 320 pages | 2026 | 📖 Hocus Pocus by Brinda Charry | United States | 336 pages | @brinda_charry2 2026 | 📖 Counting the Days by Laura Chinn | United States | 320 pages | @laurachinnnn 2026 | 📖 A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young | South Korea | 112 pages | 2026 | 📖 A Tender Age by Chang-rae Lee | United States | 368 pages | 2026 | 📖 A Thousand Painted Hours by Barbara O'Neal | United States | 480 pages | @barbaraonealauthor 2026 | 📖 Sunrise by Téa Obreht | United States / Serbia | 336 pages | @teaobreht 2026 | 📖 The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope | United States | 496 pages | @leslyepenelope 2026 | 📖 The True Meaning of Love by Dan...