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Cree Myles’ New Book Club on Bookum, NBA Finalists Announced, and More Book News
New Date for Robert F. Smith, Mitch Albom, Celebrity Book Clubs
Kyle Colley
October 09, 2025
Happy October!
Or as we like to call it, Birthday Month, because it seems everyone we know are Libras:
By the way, our partners, Love By Luna, curate our Zodiac book recommendations on Bookum, so check out your own sign's books on the app!
Also, Good News:
Our conversation with Robert F. Smith has been rescheduled for October 21st at 10:30AM to discuss his new book Lead Boldly. You can listen live on Bookum!
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This Week’s Signs:
📚 These Books Are For Everbody Cree Myles Book Club
📺 National Book Award Finalist
📖 New Book by Mitch Albom
This Week On Bookum:
🎵*Cue the theme music*🎵
Come and join the party, these books are brand new… let's open up a book with Cree!🎼🎶🎵
It's official… These Books Are For Everybody Book Club by Cree Myles is now on Bookum!!
Last month, Cree launched the podcast by the same name (it's awesome — check it here), and now you can be a part of the book club and additionally, each month, annotate the music verse of the month within the club!
As you know, Cree is a top 2, not 2, book content creator in the space, and her poetic devices and music breakdown videos are always must-watches!
The October book is Ring Shout by P. Djélí Clark, and this month’s verse is Bun B's verse from the song “Murder.”
Definitely make sure to support Cree's club on Bookum and the amazing work she is doing in the literary world!
Enjoy!
This Week in The Book World:
The brackets are set and the seeds are final.
Yesterday, the National Book Awards (NBA for short) announced its finalists in the Final Four main categories:
Fiction
Nonfiction
Translated Literature
Young People’s Literature
Here are the finalist books:
The winners will be announced at the ceremony on November 19, 2025 in New York City (Alright, table on us next year 😆).
Congrats to the finalists & let us know which books from the list you have read so far!
Add the books to your ‘To Be Read’ list on Bookum.
This Week in Publishing:
Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom is finally back with a new book!
His newest novel is called Twice.
Book Summary:
“What if you got to do everything in your life twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along.
When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try — for better or worse.”
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Happy Reading!
See you next week!
Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):
October 20th at 7PM EST Join us for Open Nook with Special Guest Author of Dominion Addie Citchens - www.bookumapp.com
October 21st at 7PM EST Author of “We Don't Talk About Carol” is stopping by Bookum for an Open Conversation on her book - www.bookumapp.com
Banned Books Week 2025: Censorship is so 1984. Read for Your Rights.- https://washoelife.washoecounty.gov/library-system/banned-books-week-2025-censorship-is-so-1984-read-for-your-rights/
