Anna North

The 27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far) Whether you’re looking for a compelling nonfiction mystery, a charming fantasy escape, or a suspenseful science fiction thriller, this year's literary slate has something for everyone.

So honored to see BOG QUEEN on this Esquire list with @vauhinivara.bsky.social’s SEARCHES and so many other great books!

I know, it’s so mean!

I have gotten SO many of these and at least one had a meetup profile!

How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids' Classrooms Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?

I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)

Anna North's new novel sees an ancient body as sacred treasure in 'Bog Queen' When a body emerges from a Scottish bog, a forensic scientist must learn how the young woman lived and died, in Anna North’s new novel “Bog Queen.”

Loved talking about BOG QUEEN on @mprnews.org!

Ahhhhh @vauhinivara.bsky.social!!! Everybody read SEARCHES!!!

Thanks so much!!

BOG QUEEN at #26 on the National Indie Bestsellers list, extended hardcover fiction

BOG QUEEN on the indie bestseller list! I’ve been so, so grateful to indie booksellers for their support of this book — they are doing really important and difficult work around the country right now and hearing kind words from them has meant so much! www.bookweb.org/indie-bestse...

Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth Madagascar is reeling from political unrest. But there’s another problem that no one’s talking about.

Coming out of silence to share a story that's very meaningful to me — a look at what's going on in southwest Madagascar. Coral reefs that sustain entire communities are failing, despite decades of conservation. It highlights the need to rethink how conservation works.

www.vox.com/climate/4650...

Thank you so much!!

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership.

This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021.

Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧
laist.com/news/la-time...

The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

Lovely evening hearing @annanorth.bsky.social & @carsonfaust.bsky.social talk about their new releases. Grateful to Storyhouse Bookpub for offering these opportunities in Des Moines.
#booksky #bookstore #shoplocal

It's really hard to go to book events at bookstores while on a book buying ban, but I held strong and only picked up the books I preordered. @annanorth.bsky.social and @carsonfaust.bsky.social
Excited for the new releases and enjoyed the talk at Storyhouse Book Pub.

The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.

Canada's Hudson Bay peatlands are one of Earth’s greatest climate protectors—and they’re under threat. Anna North’s new story, born out of her research for her new novel Bog Queen, is about what we stand to lose.

Don't miss this one 💚

@annanorth.bsky.social/@vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4647...

The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.

I became really obsessed with peatlands during the years I worked on BOG QUEEN, so it was a real joy to write for @vox.com about how important these landscapes are for our climate future

Thanks so much!!

Come talk about bogs with us tonight!

Thank you everyone at @wnbooks.bsky.social for your work on this book!

I love @largeheartedboy.bsky.social and it was such an honor to contribute this playlist for BOG QUEEN (even though my listening habits are kind of weird now)

"Something about having a second child really messed with my relationship to music."

@annanorth.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Bog Queen at @largeheartedboy.bsky.social largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/15/a...

Me with a copy of my new book BOG QUEEN

Today is UK pub day for my new book BOG QUEEN, a literary murder mystery in which the victim is a two-thousand-year-old bog body! UK readers can buy here or wherever books are sold: www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/anna-...

yay! Does she like it?

A good prequel to my conversation on Thursday @prairielights.com with the great @sarahebond.bsky.social, who thinks about the Roman Empire for her job www.prairielights.com/event/anna-n...

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time My father does not like to give unsolicited advice, and when I was going off to college, he gave me no warnings about drugs, drinking, or boys. He did, however, give me one tip: “Don’t study Latin.…

I wrote about what Latin can teach us about toxic nostalgia and the anxieties of the powerful. Thank you @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

So honored to be on this list!!

And, I should say, also buy THE SHAMSHINE BLIND by @pazsays.bsky.social! It is a hard time in the world, but a great time for innovation and genre-boundary-crossing in fiction. I feel so lucky to be working alongside so many novelists who are blending SF, mystery, dystopia, and more.

It is so meaningful to me to share a pub day with Quan Barry, truly one of my favorite novelists working today. Buy THE UNVEILING!

Thank you @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social!

The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North—a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us. Order now:

Happy #pubday to BOG QUEEN by @annanorth.bsky.social!

An iron age druid. A forensic anthropologist in the present day. What do these two women have in common? A lot, it turns out...

On sale now!
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