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The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025

The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025

Other Stuff We Read This Year

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2025

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture

By Scott Saul | December 9, 2025

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

The Backstory and Creative Process Behind A Long Winter

By Colm Tóibín | December 9, 2025

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

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

Featuring Elizabeth McCracken, Nadia Davids, Tarpley Hitt and More

By Teddy Wayne | December 9, 2025

The Far Side of Disaster: <br>On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel <em>To the Lighthouse</em>

The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse

Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”

By Colin Dickey | December 9, 2025

Adam Morgan, John Berryman, Tilar J. Mazzeo, and more: 11 new books out today!

Adam Morgan, John Berryman, Tilar J. Mazzeo, and more: 11 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | December 9, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s Romance Novels

By Gyles Brandreth | December 8, 2025

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

By Brendan Mac Evilly | December 8, 2025

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

By Literary Hub | December 8, 2025

Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write

Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | December 8, 2025

Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast

Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Brittany K. Allen, Michael Hingston, Calvin Kasulke, Natalie Olsen, Olivia Rutigliano, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 5, 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 Olga Tokarczuk, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Matthew Pearl, and More

By Book Marks | December 5, 2025

What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

Itoro Bassey on How We Write About Africa

By Itoro Bassey | December 5, 2025

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse Recommends Zuzana Ríhová, John Ajvide Lindqvist, and more

By Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse | December 5, 2025

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching <em>Survivor</em>

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching Survivor

“As a writer, you cannot and should not shield your characters from being seen in all their messy glory.”

By Sophie Newman | December 5, 2025

Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis

Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis

Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini Discuss the Landscape of British Publishing with Jack Thompson, Jess Chandler, Sam Fisher and Kristen Vida Alfaro

By Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini | December 4, 2025

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