5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The truth about Life of M is that the book isn’t really about Natalie Portman at all.”

By Book Marks | August 13, 2026

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 Paul Yoon, Howard Zinn, Chris Bohjalian, and More

By Book Marks | August 7, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You can love Riley’s work, you can certainly admire it, but I don’t think you can fangirl over it.”

By Book Marks | August 6, 2026

Read the First Reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s <em>The Little Prince</em>.

Read the First Reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

”The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam.“

By Book Marks | July 31, 2026

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nunez, Valeria Luiselli, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2026

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Rachel Aviv, David Thompson, Pamela Colloff, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | July 30, 2026

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

By Book Marks | July 28, 2026

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

By Book Marks | July 24, 2026

The First Reviews of </br>Every Raymond Chandler Novel

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

“A moody, brooding book, in which Marlowe is less a detective than a disturbed man of 42 on a quest for some evidence of truth and humanity.”

By Book Marks | July 23, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“People are objects, terrified of one another as they wake up to nightmarish scenes.”

By Book Marks | July 23, 2026

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 Sigrid Nunez, Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup, Julie Buntin, and More

By Book Marks | July 17, 2026

The First Reviews of </br><em>The Catcher in the Rye</em>

The First Reviews of
The Catcher in the Rye

“A young man possessed of a young man’s vigor and callowness, and an old man’s jaundiced eye rip-snorts his way through this raucous novel.”

By Book Marks | July 16, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Catcher in the Rye at 75 offers something of a guide away from the manosphere and its bluster.”

By Book Marks | July 16, 2026

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 Rachel Aviv, Daniel Mason, David Thompson, and More

By Book Marks | July 10, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It’s nothing more than hagiography for a dumbass.”

By Book Marks | July 9, 2026

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