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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

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

By Ed Simon

Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards

By Emily Van Duyne

The 13 Best Book Covers of June

By Emily Temple

A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?

By Jill Lepore

Seven Novels That Explore the Lives of Wayward Youth

By Susan Wiggs

Why Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Dolores is a Unicorn in the Practice of Translation

By Sara Abadía Alvarado

Christina Anderson on Wallace Shawn’s The Fever

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels

By Emma Southon

What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful

By Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Your
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Merci, Marjane: What the Author Meant to Me as an Iranian in Exile

By Naz Riahi

Why We Still Love Mr. Darcy, 200 Years Later

By Susan Moore

One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet

By Brad Rassler

Natalie Adler Talks to Sarah Schulman About AIDS History and Dykes Around Town

By Sarah Schulman

This Week in Literary History: America Turns 250

By Literary Hub

What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It)

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

July 1, 2026

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

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Book Marks

Book Marks

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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