In 2025, Lit Hub published over 2,500 pieces: features, blog posts, reading lists, excerpts, essays, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Here are the ones you loved (or at least clicked on) the most.

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Here’s a handy guide to help you spot AI writing.

by James Folta

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What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West
On the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity

by Martha A. Sandweiss

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Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman
A Special Episode of “The Lit Hub Podcast”

by The Lit Hub Podcast

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two
249 Books to Read Before the End of the Year

by Literary Hub

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It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called
On the Essential Anatomical Role Played By the Enigmatic Psoas

by Henry Abbott

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Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Polly Atkin Considers the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery

by Polly Atkin

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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
On a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse

by Piers Gelly

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58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)
Or: 42 Writers, Editors, and Booksellers on the Best Books They’ve Read in the Last 25 Years

by Literary Hub

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
291 Books We’re Looking Forward to in the New Year

by Literary Hub

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
The Former Chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College Would Prefer Not To

by Peter Coviello