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12 Books You Should Read<br> This October

12 Books You Should Read
This October

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | October 2, 2019

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O'Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O'Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

"One day, maybe, a body will be like a costume, put it on, take it off."

By Literary Hub | October 1, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in September

By Literary Hub | September 27, 2019

Here are the seven shortlisted debut novels for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Here are the seven shortlisted debut novels for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2019

Live at the Red Ink Series: <br> on the Writer's Quest for Authenticity

Live at the Red Ink Series:
on the Writer's Quest for Authenticity

Mira Jacob, Jennifer Pastiloff, Deborah Landau, Grace Talusan, and Hannah Tinti in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 23, 2019

Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

By Literary Hub | September 20, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

By Literary Hub | September 19, 2019

Here's the 2019 National Book Award Longlist for Poetry.

By Literary Hub | September 18, 2019

Here are the 10 best lines from Vulture's profile of "book-fluencer" Zibby Owens.

By Literary Hub | September 17, 2019

Here is the Translated Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.

Here is the Translated Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.

By Literary Hub | September 17, 2019

Kevin Barry on the Need to Sustain Our Literature

Kevin Barry on the Need to Sustain Our Literature

5 Questions for the Author of Night Boat to Tangier

By Literary Hub | September 17, 2019

Here is the Young People’s Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.

Here is the Young People’s Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.

By Literary Hub | September 16, 2019

Can Climate Fiction Be... Hopeful?

Can Climate Fiction Be... Hopeful?

Alex DiFrancesco and Ashley Shelby on Writing
Mythology for a New Era

By Literary Hub | September 16, 2019

Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

the disappointment vexeth me to this very day."">"I felt a great fish at the end of my line but it dropt in, and
the disappointment vexeth me to this very day."

By Literary Hub | September 13, 2019

Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin

Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin

Man, it's a hot one.

By Literary Hub | September 13, 2019

Emma Donoghue on <em>Hamilton</em>, Writer's Block, and Giving Up on <em>War and Peace</em>

Emma Donoghue on Hamilton, Writer's Block, and Giving Up on War and Peace

5 Questions for the Author of Room and Akin

By Literary Hub | September 11, 2019

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