May's Best Reviewed Fiction

May's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Ocean Vuong, Daniel Kehlmann, Allison Bechdel, and More

By Book Marks | May 30, 2025

May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Ron Chernow, Robert Macfarlane, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | May 30, 2025

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of June

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of June

The Month to Come in Literary Listening

By Audiofile Magazine | May 30, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"I felt like I was developing Stockholm syndrome with this novel."

By Book Marks | May 29, 2025

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Rochelle Dowden-Lord Recommends Peter Hellman, Jilly Cooper, Bianca Bosker, and More

By Rochelle Dowden-Lord | May 28, 2025

22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

For humans, by humans

By Emily Temple | May 27, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | May 23, 2025

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

By Martha Park | May 23, 2025

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

By Book Marks | May 23, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A study of limbo and stasis that nonetheless speaks of great movement and change."

By Book Marks | May 22, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sarah Schulman, Urvashi Vaid, Joan Didion, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 22, 2025

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

Meg Serino Recommends Elif Batuman, Julie Buntin, Emma Cline and More

By Meg Serino | May 21, 2025

Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

Adam Roberts Recommends Culinary Moments from Nora Ephron, Charles Dickens, Bryan Washington, and More

By Adam Roberts | May 20, 2025

Clocking In, Hauntings, and Sticking It to the Patriarchy: Seven Novels on the Workplace

Clocking In, Hauntings, and Sticking It to the Patriarchy: Seven Novels on the Workplace

Lorna Graham Recommends Chandler Baker, Bonnie Garmus, Calvin Kasulke, and More

By Lorna Graham | May 19, 2025

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 Mark Twain, Ocean Vuong, Malcolm X, and More

By Book Marks | May 16, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf, all masters of the repressed and unsayable.”

By Book Marks | May 15, 2025

Page 12 of 148

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member