12 Books You Should Read<br> This October

12 Books You Should Read
This October

Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | October 2, 2019

Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge

Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge

Interview with a Bookstore: Word on the Water

By Interview with a Bookstore | October 2, 2019

Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award.

Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award.

By Eleni Theodoropoulos | October 1, 2019

Head over to <em>The Believer</em> for their new interactive comic feature by artist Matt Huynh.

Head over to The Believer for their new interactive comic feature by artist Matt Huynh.

By Jonny Diamond | October 1, 2019

8 brand new books you should pick up this week.

8 brand new books you should pick up this week.

By Emily Temple | October 1, 2019

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O'Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O'Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

"One day, maybe, a body will be like a costume, put it on, take it off."

By Literary Hub | October 1, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Permanence
  • No Way Home
  • Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir
  • Last Night in Brooklyn
  • If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

Why Newspaper "Scoops" Don't Work in Narrative Nonfiction

By Steve Luxenberg | October 1, 2019

Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

By Christopher Ryan | October 1, 2019

Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 1, 2019

Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

"To live in this hell of a world does not trump our capacity to leave a little heaven behind."

By Cornel West | October 1, 2019

Here are the bookies' odds for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Here are the bookies' odds for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.

By Dan Sheehan | September 30, 2019

Who's going to take home Canada's biggest cash prize for literature?

Who's going to take home Canada's biggest cash prize for literature?

By Katie Yee | September 30, 2019

15 years after <em>Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell</em>, Susanna Clarke is back.

15 years after Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke is back.

By Emily Temple | September 30, 2019

“There’s going to be a WeWork ‘The Book’”!? our office shrieked in shock and dismay.

“There’s going to be a WeWork ‘The Book’”!? our office shrieked in shock and dismay.

By Jonny Diamond | September 30, 2019

Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

"The paradox is that one has to read the stories to understand how wrong we have been"

By Lauren Groff | September 30, 2019

In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father's Journey Home

In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father's Journey Home

Maya Phillips on Wandering Through a Fallen Kingdom

By Maya Phillips | September 30, 2019

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