34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

Personal Recommendations from your Local Lit Hub Editors

By Emily Temple | September 8, 2026

Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!

Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | September 8, 2026

Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s <em>The Waves</em> Means to Him

Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him

“It is the first novel he has ever read that makes him consider seriously the form of a human life.”

By Brian Dillon | September 8, 2026

Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | September 8, 2026

10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future

10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future

Chloe Benjamin Recommends Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke, Mohsin Hamid, and More

By Chloe Benjamin | September 4, 2026

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 Marlon James, Jon Ronson, Chloe Benjamin, Emily Wilson, and More

By Book Marks | September 4, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Disappearers
  • The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
  • Agrippa
  • Under Story
  • American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
  • The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
  • I Liked Rex
  • Asmodeus
  • 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

By Ericka Beckman | September 4, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | September 3, 2026

The Latest Literary Scam: Emailing the Long-Dead Legends of 20th-Century Literature

By Adam Hochschild | September 3, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“James has written a masterpiece, the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far.”

By Book Marks | September 3, 2026

Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101

Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101

Maris Kreizman Recommends Jade Sharma, Nettie Jones, and More

By Maris Kreizman | September 3, 2026

Nobody Thought <em>The Ginger Man</em> Would Sell a Single Copy

Nobody Thought The Ginger Man Would Sell a Single Copy

Bill Dunn on the True Story Behind J.P. Donleavy‘s Irish Classic

By Bill Dunn | September 3, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending August 30, 2026

By Literary Hub | September 3, 2026

G’Ra Asim on <em>99 Problems Finding the 1</em>

G’Ra Asim on 99 Problems Finding the 1

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 3, 2026

Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

In Conversation With Gary Lovely

By Gary Lovely | September 2, 2026

What Ann Patchett’s <em>Whistler</em> Gets Right and Wrong About Horses

What Ann Patchett’s Whistler Gets Right and Wrong About Horses

Janet L. Jones on the Fact and the Fiction of Equine-Centered Narratives in Fiction

By Janet L. Jones | September 2, 2026

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