SantaThing turns twenty! SantaThing 2026 is now out—sign up for our annual “Secret Santa for Book Lovers” and give and get books for the holidays! #SantaThing#SecretSanta#BookExchange
LibraryThing wishes all of our members a very Happy Halloween!
Are there any special books you're reading, in honor of the season? Will you be wearing a costume tonight? Tell us all about it! #Halloween#Halloween2026
The British are coming, the British are coming!
We're excited to announce that the British Library, which has been non-functional as a LibraryThing book cataloging source since the 2023 ransomware attack, is now back! #BritishLibrary#bookcataloging
The October edition of our State of the Thing newsletter has gone out to more than 1 million subscribers!
See the 🧵 below for more details, and be sure to catch up on old issues online. #LibraryThing#StateoftheThing
We've made some major changes to the Your books page, where members access and edit their catalog!
We‘ve added new functionality, changed the way the page is laid out and increased the different ways in which the catalog can be viewed.
LibraryThing sat down this month with author Molly Guptill Manning / @MGManning1, in order to discuss her new book, "A Librarian’s War." This biography of Ray Trautman, the Chief Librarian of the US Army during World War II, was recently published by @OxUniPress
Works of Gothic horror are very much at the forefront right now, from recent film adaptations of classic novels to new original works that have just released. This October our List of the Month is devoted to our Favorite Gothic Horror. #GothicHorror
Banned Books Week 2026 kicked off yesterday. First established in 1982, it is a time meant to highlight "the value of free and open access to information," and to promote intellectual freedom. This year the theme is "Let Books Be — Protect the Freedom to Read." #BannedBooksWeek
The September edition of our State of the Thing newsletter has gone out to more than 1 million subscribers!
See the 🧵 below for more details, and be sure to catch up on old issues online. #LibraryThing#StateoftheThing
As students of all ages head back to school, we've been thinking of our favorite fiction with an academic setting—stories that take place on secondary school or university campuses—dedicating our September List of the Month to our Favorite Campus Fiction.
LibraryThing sat down this month with author Saratoga Schaefer, in order to discuss their new novel, "A Thousand Monstrous Forms," a sapphic retelling of Bluebeard just published by @crookedlanebks