58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

Or: 42 Writers, Editors, and Booksellers on the Best Books They've Read in the Last 25 Years

By Emily Temple | October 14, 2025

Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 14, 2025

Who Was Peter Matthiessen, Really?

Who Was Peter Matthiessen, Really?

Terry McDonell Talks to Lance Richardson About Matthiessen’s Moral Ambiguity, Bigfoot, and More

By Terry McDonell | October 14, 2025

Lukas Gage Recommends His Favorite Celebrity Memoirs

Lukas Gage Recommends His Favorite Celebrity Memoirs

Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, and More

By Lukas Gage | October 14, 2025

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Unveiling”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 14, 2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Megha Majumdar, Julia Ioffe, Erin Somers and More

By Teddy Wayne | October 14, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa

By Catherine Pond and T Bambrick | October 14, 2025

Regina Brooks on the Business of Memoir

By Memoir Nation | October 14, 2025

Pynchon and Splatterpunk in America on The Lit Hub Podcast

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 10, 2025

What <em>Hedda</em> Reveals About the Timelessness of Feminine Rage

What Hedda Reveals About the Timelessness of Feminine Rage

Hannah Bonner Talks to Director Nia DaCosta About Her Cinematic Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Play

By Hannah Bonner | October 10, 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 Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, John Banville, and More

By Book Marks | October 10, 2025

Tawny Lara on Embracing the Sh*tty First Draft

Tawny Lara on Embracing the Sh*tty First Draft

Write Like an Idiot!

By Tawny Lara | October 10, 2025

Dr. Vivek Murthy, From the Heart

Dr. Vivek Murthy, From the Heart

live at the 2025 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | October 10, 2025

Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?

Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?

Read Andrew Ervin’s January 2001 Take on “The Melancholy of Resistance”

By Andrew Ervin | October 9, 2025

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

Maris Kreizman on the Difference Between Cancel Culture and Consequence Culture

By Maris Kreizman | October 9, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley.”

By Book Marks | October 9, 2025

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