Announcing the 2026 Longlist for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award (Mark Twain Award). 📚
In its tenth year, the award celebrates fiction that tells American stories in a uniquely American voice. From 127 submissions, our readers and judges have curated 30 remarkable books, ranging from slender story collections to a 1,200-page epic.
Shortlist in August. Finalists in September. Winner announced September 30. And this year, the celebration grows into a two-day #AmericanVoiceWeekend including a symposium on Creativity in the Age of AI, November 6 and 7.
See the full list and follow along at the link in our bio and via link here: https://t.co/73BS8NK5co
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As 2025 comes to an end, our editors and critics have selected a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry. See the full list: https://t.co/qBlot4HEVq
It's NCTE’s National Day on Writing! Each October 20, we consider the myriad forms writing can take and why we choose to write.
Visit https://t.co/29quZmqGZm for writing resources for you and your students—and tell us why and how you write, using #WhyIWrite on social media!
Our list of the 100 must-read books of 2024 is here! 📚
Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us https://t.co/ciiSxfRWHc
These are the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, as voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the New York Times Book Review staff. https://t.co/gE69KYwLrZ
The 136 books on our great-American-novels list represent the best of what books can do: challenge us, delight us, pull us in and then release us, a little smarter and a little more alive than we were before. See the full list. https://t.co/W79pKLg7Oq
Each year we review hundreds of newly published books in the behavioral sciences with the same goal in mind: to select those that stretch our thinking, surprise us, delight us, and help us better understand ourselves and our world. Our 2023 Book List...
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Working through the stages of final design proofs and proofreading proofs, but proof that my next book from @CorwinPress is making its way toward spring release is this beautiful cover of the book. It is much more than The Teacher’s Daybook was. Very excited about it!
When he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read.
Over the next few days, I'll share my annual list of favorite books, music, and movies. Art always sustains and nourishes the soul. But for me, music and storytelling felt especially urgent during this pandemic year. I'll start by sharing some of my favorite books of 2021:
Let's start a thread for readers looking for a good book. What was the best book, old or new, you read in the last year? For me, it is @ayadakhtar's Homeland Elegies. What title was your best?
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by @GailHoneyman made @goodreads' list of Most Read of the 2021 Reading Challenge (So Far) ✨📚
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