Adamstown Books

09/27/2026

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/history-bookselling-selling-bible-and-librarians-memoir-september-books-roundup?fbclid=IwY2xjawUmSR1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6QOJ9Vyli872EFmsC1Ve4gKrT6kU3T2Ok4Bcut3Fwxogel5DjqnoddQKtk_g_aem_bFcWfMdKEk4q7CrVQaSIMA

Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.

09/27/2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/leo-tolstoy-s-anna-karenina-features-the-most-memorable-opening-line-in-literature/ar-AA2ciVMs?cvid=a31cf07cd21e460dec16395e0f77e769&ei=13

You probably know the opening line of this masterpiece, even if you haven’t read the book.

09/26/2026

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09/26/2026

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Retelling Homer's Odyssey https://shapero.com/en-us/blogs/further-reading/crossing-the-wine-dark-sea

09/25/2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-10-biggest-literary-hoaxes-in-history/ss-AA273Wqd =12

Fake poets, forged diaries, invented memoirs, and one very strange author disguise. Learn about the literary hoaxes that fooled almost everyone.

09/24/2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/ar-AA25bESL?cvid=4d782e4b52324ec5f23cd98f2294e715&ei=63

Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age, by Joel Halldorf, New York University Press, 312 pages, $35 For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there's a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hi**er wasn't interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted....

09/24/2026

These novels were written in secret and published by accident

09/23/2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/good-often-does-evil-jrr-tolkien-on-the-most-tragic-moment-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/ar-AA2cEWb3?ocid=BingNewsSerp

In 1968, the BBC broadcast extracts from JRR Tolkien's last ever recorded interview, 31 years after The Hobbit was published. In 2019, the full video was unearthed from the archive.