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The Best New Books to Read This Summer

The Best New Books to Read This Summer

Recommendations From Lit Hub Staff and Contributors

By Literary Hub | May 26, 2020

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations, Round 9

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations, Round 9

Stacks on Stacks

By Emily Temple | May 22, 2020

With the Olympics Canceled, There's Plenty of Time to Read Up on Heroic Moments in Sports

With the Olympics Canceled, There's Plenty of Time to Read Up on Heroic Moments in Sports

A Reading List From Elise Hooper, From the Waves to the Rink

By Elise Hooper | May 22, 2020

Rural Queer Fiction: A Reading List

Rural Queer Fiction: A Reading List

Carter Sickels' Favorites, from Ocean Vuong to Dorothy Allison

By Carter Sickels | May 21, 2020

Curtis Sittenfeld on Folk Music, Gossip, and Politics

Curtis Sittenfeld on Folk Music, Gossip, and Politics

The Author of Rodham Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Curtis Sittenfeld | May 20, 2020

20 new books to look forward to this week.

20 new books to look forward to this week.

By Katie Yee | May 19, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stations
  • West of Loveland
  • Castles: A Fortified History of the World
  • Sweet Pea
  • The Pen: A Human History
  • Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
  • Gloria Don't Speak
  • The Heights
  • The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations, Round 8

By Emily Temple | May 15, 2020

5 Books You May Have Missed in April

By Bethanne Patrick | May 15, 2020

Lit Hub Recommends: Sebald, Nina Simone, and Top Chef

By Literary Hub | May 15, 2020

How to Read Surreally in a Surreal Time

How to Read Surreally in a Surreal Time

Maria Reva on Books By Samanta Schweblin, Selja Ahava, and More

By Maria Reva | May 14, 2020

20 new books coming out today.

20 new books coming out today.

By Katie Yee | May 12, 2020

Children's Books Make Good Companions in a Crisis

Children's Books Make Good Companions in a Crisis

Amanda Craig on Celebrating the Domestic

By Amanda Craig | May 12, 2020

70 Great Contemporary Novels </br>Under 200 Pages

70 Great Contemporary Novels
Under 200 Pages

Or, 70 Afternoons Well Spent

By Emily Temple | May 11, 2020

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations, Round 7

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations, Round 7

There Are Always More Books

By Emily Temple | May 8, 2020

Paulette Jiles Recommends a Little Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Escapism

Paulette Jiles Recommends a Little Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Escapism

Societal Collapse, Plagues, Distant Futures on Bald Stone Planets, and More

By Paulette Jiles | May 7, 2020

Bringing Together Kaleidoscopic Plots: A Reading List

Bringing Together Kaleidoscopic Plots: A Reading List

Anna Solomon on the Stories that Guided Her Writing

By Anna Solomon | May 7, 2020

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