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- Please burn your 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' urges one British charity
Wearside Women in Need is so outraged by the sado-masochistic bestseller it has organized a “Fifty Shades of Grey” book burning.
- Gravity's Engines
With 'Gravity's Engines,' Caleb Scharf establishes himself as one of the finest space storytellers.
- Reader recommendation: Gemini Ship
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Navy SEAL author's identity is revealed
The author of 'No Easy Day' – the book on the Osama bin Laden mission – is reportedly Matt Bissonette, who has been awarded five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
- The Bookscore: the new Rotten Tomatoes for books?
The website The Bookscore rounds up book reviews, assigns a ranking, and lets readers discuss literary news.
- Haruki Murakami: early leader in Nobel Prize predictions
British gambling site Ladbrokes puts Japanese author Haruki Murakami at odds of 10/1 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Do sad songs make us feel better?
Adam Brent Houghtaling explores melancholy music and how it affects us.
- Reader recommendation: The Twelfth Planet
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Castro and Chavez working on a book?
A pro-government Cuban blogger claims that former leader Fidel Castro is now collaborating on a book with Hugo Chavez.
- Navy SEAL Osama bin Laden book: Too 'top secret' to be published?
Navy SEAL Osama book: Will the US military and CIA allow the book by a Navy SEAL who was on the Osama bin Laden raid, be published?
- Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer come to TV
A modern update of Sherlock Holmes will air this fall, while a show following Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is being developed.
- Gore Vidal biography will be released in 2015
Vidal's close friend, author and academic Jay Parini, will write the biography.
- J.K. Rowling will come to New York for 'Casual Vacancy'
J.K. Rowling will be interviewed by Ann Patchett at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Oct. 16.