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 Paul Yoon, Howard Zinn, Chris Bohjalian, and More

By Book Marks | August 7, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“You can love Riley’s work, you can certainly admire it, but I don’t think you can fangirl over it.”

By Book Marks | August 6, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending August 2, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 6, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending August 2, 2026

By Literary Hub | August 6, 2026

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

Featuring Books by Dave Zirin, Claudia Rankine, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, and More

By Literary Hub | August 5, 2026

Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List

Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn Recommends Gun-Britt Sundström, Kelly Link, Marie Helene Bertino and More

By Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn | August 4, 2026

Best Reviewed
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  • Switzy
  • Taipei Story
  • Ambivalence: An Education
  • The Pirate Queen
  • The Living Realm
  • Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
  • In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir
  • Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships
  • The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
  • Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion

Tracy Borman Recommends Books To Make You Fall In Love With the Tudors

By Tracy Borman | August 4, 2026

Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | August 4, 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

By Caroline Carlson | August 3, 2026

Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Natalie Zutter Recommends New Releases From C.L. Clark, Robert Jackson Bennett, Natasha Pulley, and More

By Natalie Zutter | August 3, 2026

Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

Craig Morgan Teicher Recommends Your Poetry TBR This Month

By Craig Morgan Teicher | August 3, 2026

Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August.

Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August.

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 31, 2026

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nunez, Valeria Luiselli, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2026

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Rachel Aviv, David Thompson, Pamela Colloff, and More

By Book Marks | July 31, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Dog Days lends itself to exactly this kind of paranoid reading, not only describing but enacting the magical thinking of trauma survivors.”

By Book Marks | July 30, 2026

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending July 26, 2026

By Literary Hub | July 30, 2026

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