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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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| May 15, 2026
Five Books For the Insomniac in Your Life
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| May 15, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“It’s a character study of a woman becoming corrupted by the only kind of power she considers herself able to wield.”
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| May 14, 2026
Eight Memoirs About Medicine, Illness, and Healing
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Stine An is Reading Now, and Next
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
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Tove Ditlevsen, Vanessa Hua, Barry Walters, and more: 20 new books out today!
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| May 12, 2026
Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel
Christiana Spens: “Even when you have left an island, it lingers on in your imagination as a half-real and half-made-up place.”
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| May 11, 2026
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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| May 7, 2026
We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
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The Power of the Stranger as Plot
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Ilona Bannister
| May 6, 2026
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