Lit Hub Daily: December 16, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1775, Jane Austen is born.
- Why read 58 best books lists when you can just read one? This is the ultimate best books list for 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Titles by Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and more are among the best reviewed nonfiction books of 2025. | Book Marks
- Jen Percy explores the stories of love and sex addicts and how trauma can underpin the human need for connection. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Can bibliotherapy heal the world? “The text is a springboard for exploring issues of family, relationships, anxiety and trauma.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Tarpley Hitt chronicles the intense international legal battle over Barbie dolls (and their imitators). | Lit Hub History
- “One of his charms lay in a certain boyish zest with which he welcomed everything that happened to him…” David S. Brown on Theodore Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics. | Lit Hub Biography
- “No matter how great our collective amnesia, these mass shootings add up.” Xochitl Gonzalez on the attack at Brown and how America continually fails its children. | The Atlantic
- Ed Simon traces the visual history of No Kings, from a toppled statue of George III to the current proliferation of protest imagery. | Hyperallergic
- An entire library board has been dissolved over a single book about a trans child. | Them
- What Isaac Asimov’s rules for ethical AI couldn’t understand about the future. | The MIT Press Reader
- “There’s a certain contemporary Beatlemania quality to these proceedings.” Leah Prinzivalli dives into the Hallmark cinematic universe. | Slate
- Hua Hsu considers the American dream of perpetual childhood. | The New Yorker
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