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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Part Two

258 Books We're Looking Forward to Before the End of the Year
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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July

From Lucky to Little House on the Prairie
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How a Childhood Bookmobile Sparked My Love of Reading

Brenda C. Wilson Remembers the Start of Her Reading Journey
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Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine”

On the Pleasure of Encountering Something New

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub

Am I the Asshole For Refusing an Invitation to Submit Work?

By Kristen Arnett

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in July

By Literary Hub

Here’s the Frederick Douglass Speech to Revisit This July 4th

By Robert S. Levine

Demon Sacrifices and Sailing the Fae Seas: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in July 2026

By Caroline Carlson

Break to Sing: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in July

By Rebecca Morgan Frank

Jenny Jackson on the Literary Potential of Gossip

By Jenny Jackson

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Namwali Serpell and Saeed Jones on Toni Morrison, A “Master of Shade”

By Passages: On Morrison

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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Soman Chainani on the Dream of a Young President

By Fiction Non Fiction

Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own?

By Ed Simon

The 13 Best Book Covers of June

By Emily Temple

Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards

By Emily Van Duyne

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 2, 2026

What Has Gabino Iglesias Been Reading in 2026?

By Gabino Iglesias

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries and Thrillers of July 2026

By Molly Odintz

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Widow's Bay is
the Best Show on TV

By Olivia Rutigliano

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

By Book Marks

Namwali Serpell and Cathy Park Hong on Toni Morrison’s Jazz

By Passages: On Morrison

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks

My Mother’s Voice:
Messages From Tehran

By Shohreh Laici

On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History)

By Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting

By Sarah Flocken

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

By Danny Bate

The Clothes Make the Man: How Dark Suits Defined the Early American Republic

By Chloe Chapin

For a Historian, the Facts of Any Given Life Disappear the Moment They Occur

By Thomas S. Mullaney