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

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Brendan Mac Evilly on Figuring Out How To Be an Artist

By Brendan Mac Evilly | December 8, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • The Hill
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
  • Glyph
  • The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
  • Dog Days

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

By Catharina Coenen | December 8, 2025

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

By Literary Hub | December 8, 2025

“Le Chien,” a Poem by Billy Collins

By Billy Collins | December 8, 2025

Two Poems by Devon Walker-Figueroa

Two Poems by Devon Walker-Figueroa

From the Collection Lazarus Species

By Devon Walker-Figueroa | 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

Megha Majumdar on the Joy of Asking Questions

Megha Majumdar on the Joy of Asking Questions

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | 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

How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade

How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade

“It was clear to African populations that self-reliance was the only way to survive predatory imperial states.”

By Sudhir Hazareesingh | December 5, 2025

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