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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

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Spooky Book Predictions 4 U

By Emily Temple | October 2, 2019

Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books<br> I Needed to Write My Novel

Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
I Needed to Write My Novel

On Herman Melville, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, James Baldwin, lê thị diễm thúy, and More

By Ocean Vuong | October 1, 2019

5 Great Island Books That Reimagine <em>The Tempest</em>

5 Great Island Books That Reimagine The Tempest

Johanna Stoberock on the Best Reconsiderations of Shakespeare's Classic

By Johanna Stoberock | September 30, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in September

By Literary Hub | September 27, 2019

So You Think You're Cool? On Referencing Pop Music in Fiction

So You Think You're Cool? On Referencing Pop Music in Fiction

Robert Haller on Nick Hornby, Jeffrey Eugenides, Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and More

By Robert Haller | September 26, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

10 brand new books you should pick up this week.

By Emily Temple | September 24, 2019

Best of the Decade: What Books Will We Still Be Reading in 10 Years?

By Emily Temple | September 24, 2019

The 20 Best Campus Novels, Ranked

By Emily Temple | September 19, 2019

11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now

11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now

Writers from the 1920s to Prime You for the 2020s

By Bob Batchelor | September 13, 2019

Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin

Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin

Man, it's a hot one.

By Literary Hub | September 13, 2019

New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction.

New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what’s publishing today, fiction and nonfiction.

By Emily Temple | September 10, 2019

5 Books You May Have Missed This August

5 Books You May Have Missed This August

Fiction in Translation, Short Stories, Whimsical Mystery, and More

By Bethanne Patrick | September 10, 2019

Very good boo(k) recommendations from Laura van den Berg's ghost class.

Very good boo(k) recommendations from Laura van den Berg's ghost class.

By Katie Yee | September 9, 2019

The Editor of <em>Modern Love</em> on the Books That Taught Him About Love

The Editor of Modern Love on the Books That Taught Him About Love

From Brain Chemistry, to Sexual Impulses, to Tearjerkers

By Daniel Jones | September 6, 2019

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

A Selection of This Year's Hay Festival Writers Reflect on
the Power of Reading

By Hay Festival | September 6, 2019

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