• Reading Lists

    Literary Parties

    Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

    Jonathan Parks-Ramage Explores Brilliantly Bad Fetes in Books by Edward St. Aubyn, Raven Leilani, Deborah Eisenberg, and Others

     
    By Jonathan Parks-Ramage  June 10, 2025
    Teenagers

    Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

    By Miriam Gershow  June 9, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  June 6, 2025
    Family Stories

    Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

    By Susan Walter  June 6, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 5, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 5, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Seven books to scratch that Pride and Prejudice itch.

    By Brittany Allen  June 4, 2025
    Climate Crisis

    What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

    By Tim Weed  June 4, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Four Great Sports Books That Go Way Beyond the Game

    By S. L. Price  June 3, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Black Gatsby! Britney Spears! Geoff Dyer! Queer chaos! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 10, 2025
    The Hub

    All the fake books in Wes Anderson’s multiverse, ranked.

    By Brittany Allen  June 2, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From Michael Douglas to Bivalve Memoirs: 10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in June

    By Literary Hub  June 2, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    At the Intersection of Magic and Destiny: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  June 2, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Ten New Children’s Books That Promise Page-Turning Adventures

    For June, Caroline Carlson Recommends an Exciting Selection of (Mostly) Fantasy and Speculative Fiction For Young Readers

    By Caroline Carlson  June 2, 2025
    New Poetry

    Love Comes Back Like a Murderer: Seven Poetry Books to Read This June

    By Christopher Spaide  June 2, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  May 30, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  May 30, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of June

    The Month to Come in Literary Listening

    By AudioFile Magazine  May 30, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 29, 2025
    Wine

    Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

    By Rochelle Dowden-Lord  May 28, 2025
    Summer reading

    22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  May 27, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 23, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  May 23, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Melissa Febos! Mike Tyson! Taylor Jenkins Reid! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 3, 2025
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