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The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025
Featuring Lily King, David Szalay, Gish Jen, Han Kang, and More
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Book Marks
| December 15, 2025
Seven Holiday Romance Novels to Keep Warm With This Winter
Haruka Iwasaki Recommends Hannah Grace, Lana Ferguson, Lucy Score and More
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Haruka Iwasaki
| December 12, 2025
Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet
In Conversation with Peter Mishler
By
Peter Mishler
| December 12, 2025
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.”
By
Book Marks
| December 11, 2025
Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?
Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters
By
Chris Cohen
| December 11, 2025
What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025
Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was
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Maris Kreizman
| December 11, 2025
Best Reviewed
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“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
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Chronicle Books
| December 11, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next
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Diana Arterian
| December 11, 2025
Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image
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Fiction Non Fiction
| December 11, 2025
What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?
“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”
By
Rachel DeWoskin
| December 10, 2025
The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself
A. Natasha Joukovsky on Why the Sole Aim For Any Novelist Should Probably Be a Posthumous House Museum
By
A. Natasha Joukovsky
| December 10, 2025
Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions
Adrian McKinty Reads Pynchon’s Hardboiled Trilogy
By
Adrian McKinty
| December 10, 2025
One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel
Sheldon Costa on Trash Bashing, Working With His Hands, and Extricating His Writing from His Self-Worth
By
Sheldon Costa
| December 10, 2025
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa
Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts
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Nadia Davids
| December 10, 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
Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture
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Scott Saul
| December 9, 2025
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The Best Books of 2025: Noir Fiction
December 15, 2025
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CrimeReads
5 New Books Coming Out This Week
December 15, 2025
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CrimeReads
6 Suspense Novels and Twisty Thrillers Set in Small Towns
December 15, 2025
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Laura Griffin
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"