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

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

“I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

By Sara Stridsberg | September 15, 2025

Getting to Know the Great John Prine

Getting to Know the Great John Prine

Tom Piazza on His Inspiring Encounters With a Folk-Country Icon

By Tom Piazza | 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

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

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

15 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

Recommendations from Your Friendly Lit Hub Editors

By Emily Temple | September 8, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Why Helen Garner Embedded With Her Grandson’s Footy Club

By Helen Garner | September 4, 2025

49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

By Emily Temple | September 4, 2025

Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

By Adam Verner | September 3, 2025

Miriam Toews on Grief, Guilt, and Memory

Miriam Toews on Grief, Guilt, and Memory

“I was convinced that I had destroyed the people I loved most in the world.”

By Miriam Toews | September 3, 2025

It’s Okay to Hate <em>The House of Mirth</em>

It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

By Carlo Rotella | September 2, 2025

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

The Man in My Basement, Slow Horses, Highest 2 Lowest, and more.

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2025

The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

Philip Metres Examines the Close Bonds of Occupation

By Philip Metres | August 27, 2025

Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

How River Selby Found Herself Battling Wildfires

By River Selby | August 25, 2025

Surviving the Infamous Flour Massacre in Gaza

Surviving the Infamous Flour Massacre in Gaza

Ahmed Dader: “I will need years for the scenes of that night to fade in my memory.”

By Ahmed Dader | August 25, 2025

The Fascist History of Yoga

The Fascist History of Yoga

Stewart Home Explores the Influence of Right-Wing Ideology on the Practice of Yoga

By Stewart Home | August 22, 2025

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