The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List

The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List

Reading All the Lists So You Don’t Have to Since 2017

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2025

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

From Goodnight Moon to AI Slop.

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2025

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025

According to 52 Book Cover Designers

By Emily Temple | December 11, 2025

The 16 Best Book Covers of November

The 16 Best Book Covers of November

Closing out the year

By Emily Temple | November 26, 2025

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Quick Questions for the Year’s Best Writers, Poets, and Translators

By Emily Temple | November 11, 2025

The 11 Best Book Covers of October

The 11 Best Book Covers of October

Plus a Couple Extra

By Emily Temple | October 30, 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

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

By Emily Temple | October 30, 2025

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

By Emily Temple | October 9, 2025

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in October

By Emily Temple | September 30, 2025

The 14 Best Book Covers of September

The 14 Best Book Covers of September

Texture, Text, and Turntables

By Emily Temple | September 30, 2025

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2025

Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

A Flowchart

By Emily Temple | September 23, 2025

The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List

The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List

95 Books the Critics Think You Should Read This Season

By Emily Temple | September 16, 2025

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Recommendations from Your Friendly Lit Hub Editors

By Emily Temple | September 8, 2025

Watch the Very Horny, Deranged Trailer for <em>Wuthering Heights</em>.

Watch the Very Horny, Deranged Trailer for Wuthering Heights.

By Emily Temple | September 5, 2025

49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

Your Essential Book-to-Screen Fall Preview

By Emily Temple | September 4, 2025

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