5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Jennifer Egan on Elizabeth Strout, Rumaan Alam on Jonathan Franzen, and more

By Book Marks | October 21, 2021

Chelsea G. Summers on Anaïs Nin, <em>Dracula</em>, and <em>The Bloody Chamber</em>

Chelsea G. Summers on Anaïs Nin, Dracula, and The Bloody Chamber

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of A Certain Hunger

By Book Marks | October 20, 2021

TaraShea Nesbit on Tove Jansson, <em>Matilda</em>, and <em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</em>

TaraShea Nesbit on Tove Jansson, Matilda, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of Beheld

By Book Marks | October 19, 2021

Check out the original 1851 reviews of <em>Moby-Dick</em>.

Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick.

By Book Marks | October 18, 2021

“The Anti-James Bond.” Read This Early Review of <em>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</em>

“The Anti-James Bond.” Read This Early Review of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

How John le Carré's Masterpiece Was First Received

By Book Marks | October 18, 2021

Betsy Bonner on <em>Wuthering Heights</em>, <em>Bluets</em>, and Mary Gaitskill's Sex Scenes

Betsy Bonner on Wuthering Heights, Bluets, and Mary Gaitskill's Sex Scenes

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of The Book of Atlantis Black

By Book Marks | October 18, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week: More Rooney, Disappointing Powers,
and a Little Franzen

By Book Marks | October 14, 2021

Peter Cameron on Daphne du Maurier, James Salter, and Where the Red Fern Grows

By Book Marks | October 13, 2021

Wil Haygood on Beloved, The Power Broker, and To Kill a Mockingbird

By Book Marks | October 12, 2021

Behold... The Best Reviewed Books of the Week!

Behold... The Best Reviewed Books of the Week!

Featuring new titles by Jonathan Franzen, Miriam Toews, Val McDermid, David Sedaris, and more

By Book Marks | October 8, 2021

What the Critics Think: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

What the Critics Think: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Liana Fink on David Sedaris, Michele Filgate on Miriam Toews, Cree LeFavour on Claire Vaye Watkins, and more

By Book Marks | October 7, 2021

Margaret Verble on Chinua Achebe, Flannery O’Connor, and <em>Wolf Hall</em>

Margaret Verble on Chinua Achebe, Flannery O’Connor, and Wolf Hall

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky

By Book Marks | October 6, 2021

Jen Winston on <em>Bluets</em>, Bisexual Representation, and Hating the Classics

Jen Winston on Bluets, Bisexual Representation, and Hating the Classics

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

By Book Marks | October 4, 2021

Rooney, Powers, Whitehead... Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books

Rooney, Powers, Whitehead... Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books

Looking Back at a Blockbuster Month in Publishing

By Book Marks | October 1, 2021

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of September

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of September

The Month in Literary Listening

By Book Marks | October 1, 2021

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

Featuring Law-Breaking Animals, Mystery Illnesses, a History of the Heart, and More

By Book Marks | September 30, 2021

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