Literary Hub's Best Books of 2016

Literary Hub's Best Books of 2016

Our 35 Favorite Books of the Year

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2016

10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016

10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016

You Should Read These, Please

By Bethanne Patrick | December 20, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Criticism, Conservation & Cartography

Five Books Making News This Week: Criticism, Conservation & Cartography

Lynne Tillman, Michael McCarthy, Rebecca Solnit, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | December 20, 2016

12 Writers on the Books They're Giving as Gifts This Year

12 Writers on the Books They're Giving as Gifts This Year

Robin Wasserman, Sarah Hepola, Morgan Jerkins, and More

By Lorraine Berry | December 19, 2016

Happy 100th Birthday, Shirley Jackson!

Happy 100th Birthday, Shirley Jackson!

Seven Pieces Celebrating a Spooky Century

By Literary Hub | December 14, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Flavors, Falling-Outs, and Felines

Five Books Making News This Week: Flavors, Falling-Outs, and Felines

Sarah Lohman, Alex Beam, Michael Tisserand, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | December 13, 2016

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

8 Causes + 8 Books = 16 Gifts

By Samara Skolnik | December 12, 2016

Why Do We Keep Fighting Over 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

By Emily Temple | December 7, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Cinematic Stories and Cephalopods

By Jane Ciabattari | December 7, 2016

10 Dystopian Novels to Inspire You to Fight for Your Reproductive Freedoms

10 Dystopian Novels to Inspire You to Fight for Your Reproductive Freedoms

Because Women's Rights Are Human Rights

By Emily Temple | December 1, 2016

Would You Like Book Recs from Margaret Atwood on Your Phone?

Would You Like Book Recs from Margaret Atwood on Your Phone?

Sometimes the internet is a very good thing

By Emily Temple | November 30, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Apostles and Anthropomorphic Bears

Five Books Making News This Week: Apostles and Anthropomorphic Bears

David France, Amos Oz, Yoko Tawada, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | November 29, 2016

Indies Recommend: Small Press Books You Should Read This December

Indies Recommend: Small Press Books You Should Read This December

Seattle's Open Books Picks Its Favorite SPD Titles

By Literary Hub | November 28, 2016

10 Books by Indigenous Authors You Should Read

10 Books by Indigenous Authors You Should Read

For Thanksgiving, Standing Rock and Everything In Between

By Emily Temple | November 23, 2016

10 Contemporary Novels About the Immigrant Experience in America

10 Contemporary Novels About the Immigrant Experience in America

This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry.

By Emily Temple | November 22, 2016

Heavy-Hitters, Hybrid Novels, and Historians

Heavy-Hitters, Hybrid Novels, and Historians

Zadie Smith, Anne Carson, Michael Chabon, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | November 22, 2016

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