The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

“Historians will study how bad this book is.”

By Book Marks | December 24, 2025

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

The books that took home home this year’s biggest literary prizes

By Book Marks | December 19, 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

Featuring Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | December 16, 2025

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

Featuring Lily King, David Szalay, Gish Jen, Han Kang, and More

By Book Marks | December 15, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.”

By Book Marks | December 11, 2025

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

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

Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Matthew Pearl, and More

By Book Marks | December 5, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | December 4, 2025

November’s Best Reviewed Fiction

By Book Marks | November 26, 2025

November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks | November 26, 2025

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

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

Featuring Joy Williams, John Edgar Wideman, Solvej Balle, and More

By Book Marks | November 21, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Hers is a fiction of the absurd, born of a woozy America that doesn’t know how to move forward.”

By Book Marks | November 20, 2025

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

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

Featuring Andrew Miller, David McWilliams, Olivia Laing, and More

By Book Marks | November 14, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Here is a writer of such intimate and insightful prose that stealing away with him for a few hours in another world feels closer to trespassing than reading.”

By Book Marks | November 13, 2025

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

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

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Sarah Hall, Anthony Hopkins, and More

By Book Marks | November 7, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I seemed to be reading a 1970s-Laurel Canyon version of My Brilliant Friend.”

By Book Marks | November 6, 2025

October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gish Jen, Philip Pullman, and More

By Book Marks | October 31, 2025

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