A specially commissioned, unburnable edition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was auctioned for $130,000, with proceeds donated to PEN America, the AP reported.
For the Guardian, author David George Haskell chose his top 10 books about listening to nature and author Irene Solà listed her "top 10 wilderness stories."
Merriam-Webster looked up "13 bizarre things that somehow have words."
For library fans: an "ode to the card catalogue," courtesy of Messy Nessy Chic.