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China Bestsellers: Nobel Prize Boost, Aspirational Nonfiction, and Children’s Classics

Erin L. Cox — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:37:12 +0000

Beijing's OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their international, fiction, nonfiction, and children's bestseller lists.

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China Bestsellers: Energies Around Shanghai’s Book Fair

Porter Anderson — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:18:15 +0000

As the annual China Shanghai International Book Fair season arrived, Beijing's OpenBook research group had new observations to mention.

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Endangered, Indigenous Languages Featured at Shanghai’s Fair

Porter Anderson — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:14:17 +0000

The dogged problem of endangered and Indigenous languages is a major one in children's books.

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UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner

Porter Anderson — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:01:55 +0000

David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.

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Australia’s Helen Garner Wins the UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction

Porter Anderson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:42:16 +0000

'A fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer's life,' Helen Garner's win is a first for a diary.

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China Bestsellers: Flashes of New Titles in the Slow Season

Porter Anderson — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:49:42 +0000

Those school-driven sales of the "classics" on the mainland's reading lists have room for a couple of newer works this season.

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Frankfurt’s ‘Midway’ Numbers: Trade Visitors Up 3 Percent

Porter Anderson — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:27:19 +0000

The total number of trade visitors is expected to have reached 118,500 by Sunday, with 125 countries' professional industries represented.

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At Frankfurt: Taiwanese Fantasy Is ‘Much Closer to Our Everyday Lives’

Porter Anderson — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:45:19 +0000

The special fiction recognized as Taiwanese fantasy comes to Frankfurt, with a leading literary rights agent as one of its best representatives. (Sponsored)

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Shortlist: The UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction

Porter Anderson — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:46:55 +0000

Three of the six books shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize in the United Kingdom are Penguin Random House releases.

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The £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction’s 2025 Shortlist

Porter Anderson — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:01:19 +0000

Mature authors on 'individuals trying to live with other people': A rather grownup shortlist is announced by the Booker Prize.

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