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 new titles by Beth Macy, Édouard Louis, Sidik Fofana, Nuar Alsadir, and More

By Book Marks | August 19, 2022

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

A Reading List for Alleviating Panic in the Face of Secondary Trauma

By Beth Macy | August 19, 2022

Beyond the Anthropocentric: When Plants Become Literary Characters

Beyond the Anthropocentric: When Plants Become Literary Characters

Coco Picard Recommends Elif Shafak, Sheila Heti, and More

By Coco Picard | August 18, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo."

By Book Marks | August 18, 2022

How many of these f*cked up Y2K era YA novels do you remember?

How many of these f*cked up Y2K era YA novels do you remember?

By Katie Yee | August 17, 2022

15 new books to look forward to this week.

15 new books to look forward to this week.

By Katie Yee | August 16, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Shampoo Effect
  • The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
  • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
  • On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
  • Devotions
  • Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls

“Untouchable, Disappointing, Infinitely Mutable.” A Reading List of Not-So Main Characters

By Daisy Lafarge | August 16, 2022

Good Company: Depictions of Older Women in Literature

By Jane Campbell | August 16, 2022

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at White Whale Bookstore

By Literary Hub | August 15, 2022

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 Michael Mann’s Heat Sequel, Biographies of Jim Thorpe and Kiki de Montparnasse, and More

By Book Marks | August 12, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The author achieves a sustained, operatic balance of comedy, grief and despair that is worth the wait.”

By Book Marks | August 11, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kendra Allen is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Kendra Allen is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | August 11, 2022

18 new books to look out for this week.

18 new books to look out for this week.

By Katie Yee | August 9, 2022

Good books for bad moods.

Good books for bad moods.

By Emily Temple | August 8, 2022

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 New Titles by Mohsin Hamid, Anthony Marra, Emmanuel Carrère, and More

By Book Marks | August 5, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The sex improves; the prose does not.”

By Dan Sheehan | August 4, 2022

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