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Lit Hub’s 38 Favorite Books of 2024

From Our Bedside Tables to Yours

December 3, 2024

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Ten Children’s Books To Read and Enjoy Before The Year Ends

Caroline Carlson Recommends Some 2024 Kid Lit Releases You May Have Missed

December 2, 2024

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Some of Our Favorite Poetry Collections of the Year

Plus Seven Poetry Collections to Read This December

December 2, 2024

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Writing Advice, Book Recommendations, and More from the Newest Literary MacArthur Fellows

Jericho Brown, Ling Ma, Jason Reynolds, and Juan Felipe Herrera on the Writing Life

November 27, 2024

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On Small Business Saturday, Consider the Small Press

Casie Dodd on Building a Better Publishing Community

November 26, 2024

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Werner Herzog on Memory, the Elusiveness of Truth, and Sleepwalking Into New Wars

Ayşegül Sert Talks to the Iconic Director and the Author of “Every Man for Himself and God Against All”

November 25, 2024

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What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

Aaron Boehmer on Coates’s Journalistic Politic

November 25, 2024

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“Make it New... Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

Ryan Ruby on the Need to Shake Up Our Modern Era of Clean Professionalization

November 22, 2024

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Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy

Kim Young on What It Means to Survive a First Marriage

November 21, 2024

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In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson’s Characters

Christiana Spens Returns to Her Father’s world (and the Beloved Moomin Books)

November 20, 2024

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Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

Douglas Field Considers the Paternal Bond of an American Literary Icon in Relation to His Own

November 20, 2024

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Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

A Correspondence Centered on Identity, Love and an Eternal Search for the Self

November 18, 2024

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Still Fighting For Liberty and Justice For All: A Visual History of Black America

LaGarrett King on the Invaluable Contributions of Black Revolutionaries to America’s Founding

November 18, 2024

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Waking Up Trans in Trump’s America

Gabrielle Bellot on the Dire Consequences of Republican Policies

November 15, 2024

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Meet the 2024 National Book
Award Finalists

Quick Questions for the Year's Best Writers, Poets, and Translators

November 13, 2024

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Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

“Books and stories can be a light that leads toward the pursuit of truth in what might be dark times.”

November 12, 2024

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The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

The “Tofranil Poems,” Translated by Abdelrahman ElGendy

November 12, 2024

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The Republicans’ Project 2025 is Disastrous For Books

“Project 2025 is pitching a horrifying vision of America and American government.”

November 6, 2024

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Among the Sleuths: Looking for Answers at the Nancy Drew Convention

Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwood on the Mystery of the Missing Discernible Character Traits

November 5, 2024

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The Issues 2024: The Fight for Climate Justice

We Can’t Go On Like This

November 1, 2024

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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating 20 Years of n+1

Mark Krotov and Dayna Tortorici in Conversation with Jonny Diamond

November 1, 2024

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Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers:
The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident

Helen Vogelsong-Donahue Finally Escapes Her Bogeyman

October 31, 2024

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Exhuming Dracula’s Ancestors: What Vampires Reveal About Our Latent Fears

Ed Simon Explores the History and Tradition of Unearthing the Long-Buried Past in Eastern Europe

October 31, 2024

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A Glass of Water, a Burning Boy: Fady Joudah on Images From Gaza

“Is the language of his killers not part of our life? Is there a death we have not cheapened?”

October 30, 2024

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The Issues 2024: Reproductive Rights Are Truly on the Ballot

Because Every American Deserves the Right to Choose

October 30, 2024

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Nick Hornby: The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books

“Reading a bad novel when you are approaching pensionable age is like taking the time left available to you and setting it on fire.”

October 29, 2024

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Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking

October 25, 2024

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The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

How Do We Redress the Violent Legacy of the Second Amendment?

October 25, 2024

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From Torpedo Bras to Whale Tails: A Brief History of Women’s Underwear

Nina Edwards Explores the Popular Reception of Thongs, Bras, Boy Shorts and Other Intimate Items

October 24, 2024

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“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

Nguyễn Bình Explores the Author’s Influence on Vietnamese Literature

October 23, 2024

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André Aciman on Displacement, Family and the Struggle to Find Home In the Eternal City

“What I felt was the persistent, undefinable numbness that eventually overtakes you and won’t let go.”

October 22, 2024

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James Ivory Tells His 1940s Queer Coming-of-Age Story

Looking Back on an Adolescence Spent in Sunny Southern California

October 21, 2024

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The Issues 2024: The High Costs of the For-Profit American Healthcare System

From the Opioid Crisis to the Cost of Insulin, What the Bottom Line Has Done to Our Lives

October 18, 2024

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Five Essential Books For Understanding Native American History

Cundill Prize Finalist Kathleen DuVal Recommends David Treuer, Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child and More

October 17, 2024

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The Issues 2024: Why the Labor Movement is So Important to Americans

The Second in Our Series of In-Depth Looks at the Everyday Issues Facing Americans

October 15, 2024

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“Ariadne Sends a Message,” a Poem by Margaret Atwood

From Her New Book “Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023”

October 15, 2024

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A Beastly Love: Chronicling the Transformative Experience of Motherhood on the Page and on the Screen

Director Marielle Heller and Author Rachel Yoder Discuss Their Creative Collaboration on "Nightbitch"

October 11, 2024

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From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

Michael Lynn Crews Investigates the Inspiration Behind “Blood Meridian,” “Suttree” and Other Novels

October 10, 2024

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The Issues 2024: Going Deep on the Problem of Income Inequality

Introducing the First in a Series of In-Depth Looks at the Everyday Issues Facing Americans

October 8, 2024

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“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

From Barroom Chats with Raymond Carver to the Aperçus of Thomas Piketty, Douglas Unger Explores Class Consciousness in American Letters

October 7, 2024

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On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

Elias Altman Remembers His Boss' Advice on Writing, Editing, and When a Deal's a Deal

October 7, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in October

Spooky Action (and Comedy, and Drama) at a Distance

September 27, 2024

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Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

(A back-to-school themed flowchart)

September 23, 2024

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The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List

78 Books the Critics Think You Should Read This Season

September 17, 2024

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17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Reading Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff

September 10, 2024

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two

193 Books to Read in the Second Half of the Year

July 10, 2024

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Here’s Your 2024 Literary Film & TV Preview

53 Shows and Movies to Stream and See This Year

January 10, 2024

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024

230 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 3, 2024

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You Get Editors’ Personalized Book Recs, an Ad-Free Reading Experience, AND the Joan Didion Tote Bag

December 23, 2023

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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Fund Drives, Merve Emre, and... Do Awards Even Matter?

With Drew Broussard, Calvin Kasulke, Oliver Scialdone, McKayla Coyle, and Jonny Diamond

By The Lit Hub Podcast December 3, 2024

Reading With My Past Self: A Year of Revisiting Books

Angela Baggetta on What She’s Learned From Rereading Old Favorites

By Angela Baggetta December 3, 2024

On the Report of Poetry’s Death, or: What Does That AI Poetry Study Really Tell Us?

Jen Benka Considers Art in the Age of ChatGPT

By Jen Benka December 3, 2024

Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson

Gabriel Korn Explores Bodily Autonomy, Self-Censorship, and How Desire Shapes Our Writing

By Gabrielle Korn December 3, 2024

In Conversation

Anita Felicelli on Crafting a Collection of Existential Speculative Short Stories

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "How We Know Our Time Travelers"

By Jane Ciabattari December 3, 2024

Rick Barot & Brian Teare Remind Each Other to Look Again

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By Awakeners December 3, 2024

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?

By Heather McCalden December 2, 2024

Italian Literature

A Riveting, Timeless Journey Through the Afterlife: Inside the World of Dante’s Divine Comedy

By Michael Palma December 2, 2024

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Musical Mechas and the Dystopian Dust Bowl: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Finish the Year with New Speculative Fiction From Alex Segura, Julia Armfield, Alison Stine, and More

Musical Mechas and the Dystopian Dust Bowl: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter December 2, 2024

Elizabeth Rosner on Delayed Listening

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing December 2, 2024

Jeannine Ouellette on Bringing Attention, Playfulness, and Surprise to Your Writing

By Write-minded December 2, 2024

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

November 22, 2024 By Book Marks

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

November 21, 2024 By Book Marks

Willy Falcon, Scarface, and How 1980s Miami Cocaine Culture Infiltrated the National Imagination

December 3, 2024 By T.J. English

Adam Hamdy on Antiheroes We Hate to Love

December 3, 2024 By Adam Hamdy

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