6 Short Story Collections to Look Forward to in 2019
Fiction readers who overlook short stories are missing out. Not only do some of our best writers get started in…
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August’s Best New Fiction
This month’s best new work includes the second book of the Half-Drowned King Viking fantasy trilogy, a portrait of a…
May’s Best New Fiction
Beach Read Queens, assemble! May brings us fresh fare from Dorothea Benton Frank, Mary Kay Andrews, and Mary Alice Monroe,…
10 Books That Will Remind You of Your Childhood
There’s nothing quite like the experience of reading as a child. Whether under the covers with a flashlight or sitting…
50 Novels That Changed Novels
The novel has been the dominant form of literature for centuries, evolving and changing in exciting, unexpected ways over the…
June’s Best New Fiction
Who needs travel plans when this month’s books take us to Martha’s Vineyard, Philly, 19th-century Britain, India, Scotland, France, Italy,…
5 Great Novels About Refugees and Migrants
Is there a more compelling story than that of a person forced to flee their home due to war or…
5 Delightfully Disturbing Narrators
With Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov dared readers to identify with a monstrous, unreliable narrator. Artistic prose and a strong narrative voice…
February’s Best New Fiction
February brings us a wide variety of historical fiction set around the world (France! Vietnam! Japan! England!), as well as…
January’s Best New Fiction
It’s a brave new year and January’s best fiction includes paranormal mysteries, gritty coming of age novels, emotionally resonant literary…
10 Must-Read Novels of 2016
Good books help us escape, celebrate, and survive the world we find ourselves in, and 2016 has been a banner…
7 Books That Celebrate the Joys of Being Alone
If you think Sartre was right on when he wrote “hell is other people,” or if you could just use…
The Best Books That Scarred Us For Life
What’s scarier: seeing something jump out at you, or knowing that it could, and imagining how and when? My bet’s on…
The Season’s Most Exciting Literary Fiction
Fire-colored leaves on the sidewalk, Oscar contenders in theaters, and pumpkin spice everything are nice, but if you’re a book lover,…
October’s Best New Fiction
Christmas in October? It sure looks that way on the new fiction shelves! We’ve got Mary Alice Monroe’s heartwarming A…
5 More Singular Women Writers to Read if You Love Nell Zink
Nell Zink burst onto the literary scene in 2014 with her debut The Wallcreeper, an entirely unusual story of a floundering…
8 Books We Want to See Rory Reading in the New Gilmore Girls Episodes
Forget about whether Lorelai is still with Luke. Put your questions about Paris on pause. We all know what our…
Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder Will Make You Believe
As award-winning author Emma Donoghue made clear in her breakthrough novel Room, she is a master of tight spaces: both the physically cramped confines…
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth Paints a Thorny Family Portrait
For a story that begins and ends with a party, there’s an astonishing amount of anger, sadness, and deceit in…
September’s Best New Fiction
Time to stash the beach reads in favor of something more hefty? Seems like it. It’s September, and publishers are…