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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

Why We’re Still Reading Jane Austen on Her 250th Birthday

Why We’re Still Reading Jane Austen on Her 250th Birthday

Lucy Worsley on Austen’s Desire for Fame and Why Her Books Don’t Truly Celebrate Marriage

By Lucy Worsley | September 16, 2025

Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

Sam Sussman on Writing a Book About His Mother

By Sam Sussman | September 16, 2025

How Viking Introduced John Steinbeck, James Joyce and More to American Readers

How Viking Introduced John Steinbeck, James Joyce and More to American Readers

Paul Slovak on Pascal Covici, the Editor Who Nurtured Some of the Most Iconic Names in Literature

By Paul Slovak | September 16, 2025

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Wilderness”

By Jane Ciabattari | September 16, 2025

Samantha Schweblin! Lydia Davis! Angela Flournoy! 21 new books out today.

Samantha Schweblin! Lydia Davis! Angela Flournoy! 21 new books out today.

By Julia Hass | September 16, 2025

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  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

By David Greig | September 15, 2025

The Art of Caustic Cosiness: On Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died

By Susie Boyt | September 15, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | September 12, 2025

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

By Christine Estima | September 12, 2025

The Joy of Reading Books About Books

The Joy of Reading Books About Books

Susan Coll Recommends John Tottenham, Emily Henry, R.F. Kuang, and More

By Susan Coll | September 12, 2025

How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

Elaine L. Wang on “Try to Praise the Mutilated World”

By Elaine L. Wang | September 11, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Anyone making the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s annihilation then is making the case for our annihilation now.”

By Book Marks | September 11, 2025

Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 11, 2025

On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

Nathaniel Moore Reads Patricia Lockwood, Rachel Yoder, and Charlotte Wood

By Nathaniel Moore | September 10, 2025

What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work

What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work

“Talk of money in Austen is always dramatic, never just informative.”

By John Mullan | September 10, 2025

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