Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
The Guardian is inviting readers to share their book recommendations for the month. They are interested in both fiction and non-fiction titles that readers have enjoyed recently. Submissions can be made through a secure form, and a journalist will follow up before publication.
- ▪The Guardian is conducting a callout for book recommendations from its readers.
- ▪Both fiction and non-fiction books are welcome for submission.
- ▪Responses will be collected through a secure and encrypted form.
The Guardian — Books publishes from United Kingdom and files mainly under books. We currently carry 16 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | The Guardian — Books |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/23/tell-us-what-have-you-been-reading-this-month |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 19:50:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T20:07:40.503Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T20:07:40.503Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -FDQMjGjgs_a |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Share your recommendations using the form below. Photograph: stevecoleimages/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenShare your recommendations using the form below. Photograph: stevecoleimages/Getty ImagesBooksTell us: what have you been reading this month?We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this monthGuardian community teamMon 25 May 2026 15.50 EDTFirst published on Wed 23 Feb 2022 07.22 ESTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleAs part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month.Have you read a book in recent weeks – fiction or non-fiction – that you’d recommend? Tell us all about it below.Share your recommendationsYou can get in touch by filling in the form below.
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