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    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring Aria Aber, Y2K, Pico Iyer, and More

     
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    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 16, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 16, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the ’90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 14, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  January 10, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 9, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

    By Brittany Allen  January 8, 2025
    2025 Preview

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

    By Literary Hub  January 7, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Zora Neale Hurston! The real-life Hester Prynne! Y2K! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 7, 2025
    Girlhood

    Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

    Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

    By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum  January 17, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2025

    By Natalie Zutter  January 2, 2025
    Poetry

    A Constant Reinvention of Language: Looking Ahead to 2025 in Poetry

    By Literary Hub  January 2, 2025
    Children's Literature

    The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2025

    By Caroline Carlson  January 2, 2025
    Best of 2024

    The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024

    Because If You Only Read What Everyone Else is Reading...

    By Emily Temple  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    50 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024

    By Brittany Cavallaro  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 24, 2024
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Rosa Alcalá Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  December 20, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 19, 2024
    Literary Criticism

    Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The Ultimate Best Books of 2024 List

    Reading All the Lists So You Don’t Have To Since 2017

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2024
    Bad Reviews

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

    By Book Marks  December 17, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Blake Butler! A Dostoevskyian Turkish classic! Giftable editions! 10 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 17, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Deer! Dystopia! Patrick Stewart! MLK’s definitive bio! 21 books out in paperback this January.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 3, 2025
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