5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Sometimes Hanawalt’s perspective veers into the horrifying, and the transition from Richard Scarry to Extremely Scary can be shocking."

By Book Marks | October 22, 2026

Meghan O’Rourke, Zaina Arafat, Philippa Gregory, and more: 20 new books out today!

Meghan O’Rourke, Zaina Arafat, Philippa Gregory, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 20, 2026

Five Essential Books For Understanding Chinese American History

Five Essential Books For Understanding Chinese American History

Cundill Prize Finalist Beth Lew-Williams Recommends Erika Lee, Gordon Chang, Brianna Nofil and More

By Beth Lew-Williams | October 19, 2026

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 Yiyun Li, Eugene Debs, Bonnie Garmus, Lieke Marsman, and More

By Book Marks | October 16, 2026

Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History

Five Essential Books to Understand the Venetian Ghetto and Jewish History

Cundill History Prize Finalist Alexander Lee Recommends John Julius Norwich, Margaret Plant, and More

By Alexander Lee | October 16, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“If these characters were dogs, they would be constantly lifting their legs at one another.”

By Book Marks | October 15, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
  • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
  • Queen of Lombard Street
  • Paradise Burns
  • Doppelgänger
  • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
  • The Turning of Sally-Mae

Anna North on the Genre You Didn’t Know You Needed: Bogcore

By Anna North | October 15, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What David Naimon Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | October 15, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

By Literary Hub | October 15, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending October 11, 2026

By Literary Hub | October 15, 2026

Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories

Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories

From Hamlet to Poe, Seven Iconic Narrative Hauntings

By Bonnie Jo Campbell | October 13, 2026

Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more: 20 new books out today!

Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 13, 2026

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 Barbara Kingsolver, Sarah Perry, T. Geronimo Johnson, Nathaniel Philbrick, and More

By Book Marks | October 9, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Considering that both authors are innovators of highly consumable brain rot in different mediums, the book is an old-fashioned dud.”

By Book Marks | October 8, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending October 4, 2026

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending October 4, 2026

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

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