Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2025!

The books that took home home this year’s biggest literary prizes

By Book Marks | December 19, 2025

The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2025

The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2025

From Zohran to ChatGPT and Back Again

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Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Or: The Poetry of a Boarding House

By Sara Martin | December 19, 2025

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

“Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process.”

By Adam Morgan | December 18, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | December 18, 2025

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2025

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2025

The Editors Pick the Best Writing at the Site This Year

By Literary Hub | December 18, 2025

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Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

By Sandy Ernest Allen | December 18, 2025

Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 18, 2025

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

By Gerri Kimber | December 17, 2025

How <em>Ulysses</em> Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

How Ulysses Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

Adam Morgan on Margaret C. Anderson and the Early Fight Against Literary Censorship in America

By Adam Morgan | December 17, 2025

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

“Historians will study how bad this book is.”

By Book Marks | December 17, 2025

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Poet, Novelist, Equestrian, Community Builder, Philanthropist

By Imani Perry, Raina León, Garlia Cornelia Jones | December 17, 2025

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

Kate Evans Considers the Social and Economic Factors That Contributed to the Writer’s Creative Development

By Kate Evans | December 17, 2025

It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help

It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help

Lit Hub Editor in Chief Jonny Diamond Would
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By Jonny Diamond | December 16, 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

Featuring Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | December 16, 2025

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

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