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Today in Books gathers a bunch of news from around the internet, but we cover some stories ourselves. Here\u2019s what we were tracking this week. <\/em><\/p>\n

Amid the court battle over the future of the IMLS, Trump issued a budget proposal for 2026 that would make any of the legal decisions moot: the IMLS would simply be defunded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much of this was seen in generalities until now. Late last week, the details of what this might look like have emerged. Recall that the IMLS budget comprises under 0.005% of the overall federal budget at about $313 million dollars as of this fiscal year. For fiscal year 2026, the budget would be slashed to a mere six million dollars.<\/p>\n

Goodreads has released its list of the\u00a0144 Most Read Books of the 2025 Reading Challenge (So Far)<\/a>, separated by genre. Each category has 12 titles, and the genres are: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, Young Adult, Memoirs, History & Biography, and General Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in Books gathers a bunch of news from around the internet, but we cover some stories ourselves. Here\u2019s what we were tracking this week. Amid the court battle over the future of the IMLS, Trump issued a budget proposal for 2026 that would make any of the legal decisions moot: the IMLS would simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[2268,23593,1820,1619],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-281507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-covered","tag-news","tag-week"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Book News We Covered This Week - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today in Books gathers a bunch of news from around the internet, but we cover some stories ourselves. 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