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Make sure to check out our newest Authors Talk Podcast with 2-time Super Bowl Champion Malcolm Jenkins, author of our Bookum Club Pick of May, What Winners Won't Tell You.

We discussed players owning their voice, entrepreneurship, getting into art, and life after the NFL.

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The Tale of the Table:

• 📚 Summer Book Clubs

•  📺 Percival Everett Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

• 📖 New Book From Kennedy Ryan

This Week On Bookum:

The days are getting longer, so that means it’s the perfect time to get your summer book club together.

Did you know that Bookum has 3-month book clubs?

Our 3-month short-burst clubs are designed to take the pressure off hosting year-round book clubs, for people who just want to read a few books or a series with their core following or friends.

Perfect for finishing Emily Henry's, Kennedy Ryan’s, or Abby Jimenez's romance collections with friends and discussing them with our dynamic book club features such as audio/video nooks, annotation talks, or our upcoming Cubby feature!

Start your summer book club today on Bookum!

This Week in The Book World:

We have a new Pulitzer Prize winner…

It was announced last week that novelist Percival Everett won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his book James.

As you are probably well aware (unless you've been living under a rock🪨), James has been the darling of the book world in 2024/2025 for its phenomenal retelling of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim.

Even if the premise isn’t your usual genre taste, we read it in January during a Nook conversation hosted by CompletelyBooked, and we can assure you it was truly a masterclass in storytelling.

For more information on the award, check out this article courtesy of NPR:

This Week in Publishing:

Every couple of months, an author drops a book that doesn’t need much of an introduction and this week is one of those weeks.

Author Kennedy Ryan is back with her highly anticipated third book in the Skyland series: Can’t Get Enough.

Summary:

Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry’s rarefied air. Your vision board? She’s probably living it.

She’s a woman with goals, dreams, and ambitions—always striving upward. And in the midst of everything, she’s facing her toughest challenge yet: caring for an aging parent. Who has time for romance? From her experience, there’s a low ROI on relationships. Anyway, she hasn’t met the man who can keep up with her. Until... him.

Add Can’t Get Enough to your TBR on the Bookum app!

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Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

E-Book Revenue Increased by 7.8% in February 2025 - https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/e-book-revenue-increased-by-7-8-in-february-2025

Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation Services - https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/97756-audible-expands-catalog-with-ai-narration-and-translation-services.html

Librarian of Congress firing is latest move in upheaval of U.S. cultural institutions -https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393737/carla-hayden-fired-library-of-congress-trump