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The May 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 #💙📚 #Booksky

We debuted our new Your Authors by State page, in the Charts & Graphs section of the site! Now you can see where your US-born authors come from–which states dominate, which are missing. Read more about it and tell us what you think: www.librarything.com/topic/384122

We’ve made some major changes to Common Knowledge, adding twelve new fields for authors! Each of these new pages has a “Your Authors” button, allowing you to see which of your authors fall into these categories. Come learn more, and join the discussion: www.librarything.com/topic/383971

We’ve given our Helpers Log a major upgrade, making it a truly complete, one-stop page documenting everything LibraryThing members are doing to help the site. Read all about it, and give us your feedback: www.librarything.com/topic/384254

We’ve made some changes to our Local page, replacing Google maps with improved map infrastructure of our own. Come check out the improvements: www.librarything.com/local

We have been making changes in order to clean up some of the issues with work summaries, making them much cleaner and easier to read. Learn more, and contribute to the conversation: www.librarything.com/topic/384214

We announced that we have added Legacy Libraries for Lloyd Alexander and M.R. James, as part of our project to document the personal book collections of notable people! www.librarything.com/profile/Lloy... www.librarything.com/profile/Mont...

We invited members to contribute to our May List of the Month, devoted to the Books We Resisted Reading. Come add your top ten choices to the list, and build a resource for your fellow readers: www.librarything.com/list/47811/a...

We shone a spotlight on some of the amazing discussions going on in Talk—LibraryThing's discussion forum. Come find a group that's right for you! www.librarything.com/ngroups

We interviewed Stacy Mitchell, founder and proprietor of Bold Magazine Shop in LibraryThing's very own Portland, Maine! Come read what she has to say about the shop, the resurgence of this form of print media, and the allure of magazines. blog.librarything.com/2026/05/inte...

We interviewed author Katie Holt about her new book, "The Last Page." Come read what she has to say about the book, what inspired it, and why she finds romance so compelling. blog.librarything.com/2026/05/auth...

We celebrated our Helpers—LibraryThing members who do so much to make our site a better, more well-run place! Check out our most active Helpers! www.librarything.com/zeitgeist/he...

We shone a spotlight on the titles that are "Hot on LibraryThing" this month, with "Fury Bound" by Sable Sorensen topping the list. You can see more interesting lists and book statistics on our Zeitgeist page. www.librarything.com/zeitgeist

We highlighted the top titles in U.S. public libraries in March 2026, using data collected by Syndetics Unbound, a LibraryThing / @proquest.bsky.social project to enrich the library catalog. proquest.syndetics.com/news/2026/05...

We began our book news coverage with our regular in Memoriam column, highlighting authors and artists we lost recently, including award-winning Australian author David Malouf. www.librarything.com/a/3040/David...

Our regular Freedom of Expression column highlighted a number of stories, including PEN America's annual The Freedom to Write Index. pen.org/report/freed...

We highlighted as many book awards as we could, including the Pulitzer Prize and the International Booker Prize. www.librarything.com/award/76/Pul... www.librarything.com/award/1989/T...