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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads as if it is trying to wrap its arms around the abundance of experience.”

By Book Marks | February 6, 2025

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Han Kang, Adam Haslett, Adam Ross, and More

By Book Marks | January 31, 2025

January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Edmund White’s Sex Memoir, the Rise of Spotify, and the End of the World

By Book Marks | January 31, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I’ve seen sex written about with passion and dispassion, but seldom in the same book, and never in the same sentence.”

By Book Marks | January 30, 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 Han Kang, American Orphanhood, Mavis Gallant, and More

By Book Marks | January 24, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In place of clear conclusions are persistent themes, like recurring notes in a song.”

By Book Marks | January 23, 2025

Best Reviewed
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By Book Marks | January 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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“The narrator’s voice is an extraordinary hybrid of a boy’s plaintive innocence and a man’s wry reflection.”

By Book Marks | January 9, 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2024

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2024

Featuring Judi Dench, Frantz Fanon, Sloane Crosley, Joni Mitchell, and More

By Book Marks | December 24, 2024

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

Read the Books That Took Home This Year’s Biggest Literary Prizes

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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

“He has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking.”

By Book Marks | December 17, 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024

Featuring Louise Erdrich, Kaveh Akbar, Tommy Orange, Rita Bullwinkel, Garth Greenwell, and More

By Book Marks | December 10, 2024

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 Weike Wang, Woodworking, Pat Barker, and More

By Book Marks | December 6, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I’ve read in years.”

By Book Marks | December 5, 2024

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