During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer. Don’t have the time to hunt for good reads? Never fear. We’ve rounded up the best bookish reading of the week for you.

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We Read...

Up on the 1776  Battle for Brooklyn and learned to get down like The Get Down with books on 1970s NYC and hip-hop culture. We took a suffragist quiz on Women's Equality Day and celebrated the 25th anniversary of public access to the internet bookishly. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walter Mosley talked about Victorian England, Sherlock Holmes's brother, and hard work. Meanwhile, the case was made that dogs are a reader's best friend. If you wish Batgirl were your best friend, you may dig these graphic novels, and if you love The Night Of, you need to be reading the novels of one of the show's writers, Richard Price. International reads are filling up TBR piles to our ceiling because we totally understand when Jeanette Winterson says, "Books, for me, are home."

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No need to get up! Join our librarians from the home, office, playground — wherever you have internet access — for book recs on Twitter by following our handle @NYPLrecommends from 10 AM to 11 AM every Friday. Or, you can check NYPL Recommends any day of the week for more suggestions. We'll be taking a short end-of-summer break this week, but we can't wait to see you on Twitter again starting September 9!
 

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— NYPL Recommends (@NYPLRecommends) August 26, 2016

What did you read?

If you read something fantastic this week, share with our community of readers in the comment section below.