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 Ben Markovits, Stefan Merrill Block, Xiaolu Guo, and More

By Book Marks | January 9, 2026

For an Echodeviant Poet, Mishearing is a Method

For an Echodeviant Poet, Mishearing is a Method

Noa Micaela Fields on the Changeable Power of Language

By Noa Micaela Fields | January 9, 2026

Here Are Your Guides Through the Opaque World of Book Publishing

Here Are Your Guides Through the Opaque World of Book Publishing

Maris Kreizman Recommends New Books by Kate McKean and Alia Hannah Habib

By Maris Kreizman | January 8, 2026

Inside the Inferno: Revisiting Southern California’s First Wildfire of 2025

Inside the Inferno: Revisiting Southern California’s First Wildfire of 2025

Jacob Soboroff Chronicles the Destruction Wrought by the Eaton Canyon and Palisades Fires

By Jacob Soboroff | January 8, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A propulsive, witty takedown of insufferable hand-wringers who’ve managed to ruin even sex.”

By Book Marks | January 8, 2026

The Ups and Downs of “Having it All”—and Why It’s Okay to Give it Up

The Ups and Downs of “Having it All”—and Why It’s Okay to Give it Up

Amil Niazi on Motherhood, Watching Bosch, and Taking Risks

By Amil Niazi | January 8, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
  • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
  • The Telephone: A New History
  • No Such Thing as Monday
  • O Now!
  • Don't Stop Snowing
  • The Key Biscayne Affair
  • Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power
  • Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

How Los Angeles and Chicago Came to Appreciate Their Coyote Neighbors

By Dan Flores | January 8, 2026

Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 8, 2026

Alcohol: The Oldest (and Most Popular) Drug in the World

By Charles Knowles | January 7, 2026

How Humor Can Be an Effective Tool For Social Change

How Humor Can Be an Effective Tool For Social Change

Chris Duffy on Relieving the Horrors Through Laughter

By Chris Duffy | January 7, 2026

Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and... Ghostwriter?

Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and... Ghostwriter?

Brad Bigelow on the Collaborative Process That Produced Polly Adler’s A House is Not a Home

By Brad Bigelow | January 7, 2026

Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand

Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand

The Author of A New World Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | January 6, 2026

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026

314 Books To Read in the New Year

By Literary Hub | January 6, 2026

Jonathan Lethem and Ben Markovits on a Trans-Atlantic Literary Life (and More)

Jonathan Lethem and Ben Markovits on a Trans-Atlantic Literary Life (and More)

A Conversation With the Author of the Booker-Nominated The Rest of Our Lives

By Jonathan Lethem | January 6, 2026

Laura Restrepo on Blending Ancient Myth and Contemporary Reality

Laura Restrepo on Blending Ancient Myth and Contemporary Reality

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Song of Ancient Lovers

By Jane Ciabattari | January 6, 2026

Notable Literary Deaths in 2025

Notable Literary Deaths in 2025

An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great Literary Minds We Lost This Year

By Literary Hub | January 5, 2026

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