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Readers’ 14: October Books We’re Excited To Read

October 2, 2026October 5, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Adam Grant, Annalee Newitz, Audrey Niffenegger, Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, Book Preview, books, Broadleaf Books, Chad Harbach, Custom House, Doubleday, Ecco, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Franny Choi, Hanover Square Press, Harper, James Marriott, Julie Orringer, Knopf, literary fiction, Little Brown, Matthew D. Taylor, Meghan O’Gieblyn, memoir, Michael Lewis, most anticipated books, Nonfiction, October Books, Sarah Perry, science fiction, Scribner, Tor Books, Viking, W.W. Norton, Yiyun Li

Barbara Kingsolver returns, Chad Harbach finally publishes his long-awaited second novel, Michael Lewis investigates DOGE, Bonnie Garmus heads to 1980s publishing, Adam Grant explores loneliness and more

Can Ayad Akhtar Find Out the Identity of Ayad Akhtar from ‘The Radiance’?

September 29, 2026August 23, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments American Dervish, autofiction, Ayad Akhtar, Book Review, brain injury, consciousness, Disgraced, Homeland Elegies, identity, literary fiction, Lucie Neroponte, Pakistani American writers, psychological fiction, The Radiance, Trauma

Pulitzer prize-winner’s new novel continues his auto-fictional exploration

BOOKS Featured Stories Graphic novels

Will America Find Japan’s Bestselling Novelist Through ‘Stray Dogs’?

September 27, 2026October 1, 2026 J. Barnes 1 Comment anime, autofiction, Bungo Stray Dogs, Christianity, coming of age, depression, diary novel, Donald Keene, Japanese literature, Justice with a Smile, Kabuki, Kafka Asagiri, literary fiction, manga, Michael Day, No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai, suicide, The Final Years, The Real Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, translated fiction, Tuttle Publishing, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

A new translation of Osamu Dazai’s ‘Justice with a Smile’ is part of a wave of his work appearing in the West

BOOKS Featured Stories SF

‘Exit Party’ Provides Parties but Surprisingly Little Exit

September 18, 2026September 22, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments alternate reality, Canadian fiction, dystopian fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party, literary fiction, Lucas Alkaitis, multiverse, parallel worlds, post-apocalyptic fiction, Sea of Tranquility, speculative fiction, Station Eleven, The Swan Dive

Emily St. John Mandel is back with a novel of parallel worlds

Chloe Benjamin Follows Up ‘The Immortalists’ With ‘Under Story’

September 1, 2026August 24, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments alternate reality, Antarctica, Book Review, books, Chloe Benjamin, cosmology, family, fiction, fungi, grief, literary fiction, loss, magical realism, McMurdo Station, mycology, nature, novel, parallel universe, parenthood, physics, science fiction, speculative fiction, The Immortalists, Under Story

Loss drives the protagonists to Antarctica and an alternate universe

Fifteen Books For a Spectacular September

August 31, 2026August 31, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ayad Akhtar, book recommendations, books, China Miéville, Chloe Benjamin, Chris Bennett, Del Rey, Emily St. John Mandel, Fantasy, fiction, Forge Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Hank Phillippi Ryan, HarperOne, history, Jack Stewart, James Islington, Jared Diamond, Ken Liu, Knopf, literary fiction, Lucy Worsley, Marlon James, most anticipated books, new books, new releases, Nonfiction, Pegasus Books, reading, Riverhead Books, Saga Press, science fiction, September books, Summit Books, Thrillers, Tom Clancy, W.W. Norton

From Emily St. John Mandel to Chloe Benjamin; Ayad Akhtar to Marlon Benjamin; Tom Clancy to Jared Diamond

August Books for the End of Summer

August 4, 2026August 3, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ashley Kahn, August 2026 books, book recommendations, books, books to read, Bookshop.org, Casey Michel, Chang-rae Lee, Claire Stapleton, Fantasy, fiction, Graceland, Jill LePore, Kim Bo-Young, Laura Moriarty, Liane Moriarty, Lisa Gardner, literary fiction, new books, Nonfiction, Olivie Blake, Paul Simon, Richard Swan, Roland Orzabal, science fiction, T Kingfisher, Tears for Fears, Thao Thai, Thrillers

A stuffed drawer of top reads from Chang-rae Lee to Paul Simon, from Google to Tears for Fears

BOOKS Featured Stories FICTION

Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

A Reader’s Dozen for July

June 30, 2026June 30, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Amy Bruni, Ben Reeves, Ben Wikler, book recommendations, Bookshop.org, Colson Whitehead, cookbooks, Crown, Daniel Silva, Dino Martins, Doubleday, Emily Giffin, fiction, Harper, history, July 2026 books, July book releases, Knopf, language, Lauren Collins, literary fiction, memoirs, Michael Cunningham, nature, new books, Nonfiction, Pamela Colloff, Penguin Press, politics, Publishing, Random House, Riverhead Books, science, short stories, Sigrid Nunez, Simon and Schuster, Sophia Smith Galer, summer reading, Thrillers, true crime, W.W. Norton

From parasites to romance, Harlem history to thrillers, hot reads are on their way for summer

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Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments American Fiction, American South, book criticism, Book Review, comedy writing, contemporary fiction, cultural satire, Danny McBride, dark comedy, Divorce, Eastbound and Down, fatherhood, Fight Club, genre fiction, Halloween, humor books, June 2026 books, Kenny Powers, literary fiction, masculinity, mens fiction, midlife crisis, modern manhood, Pop Culture, Random House, satire, short stories, short story collection, Southern literature, Stephen King, television creators, The Exorcist, The Righteous Gemstones, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, Vice Principals

Danny McBride wonders: Are the men OK?

Let ‘Swell’ Expand Your Reality

June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Table for Six, Asian literature, Blanket, Blimp, book criticism, Book Review, contemporary authors, contemporary literature, experimental fiction, family relationships, fiction collections, genre bending fiction, Give Them the Lindy Hop, grief and loss, independent publishing, international fiction, Janet Hong, Janet Hong translation, Korean literature, literary culture, literary fiction, literary translation, magical realism, marriage and infidelity, modern short stories, multiverse stories, Son Bo mi, South Korean fiction, speculative fiction, Swell, The Love of a Scientist, translated literature, Two Lines Press, Two Lines Press books, UFO fiction, unreliable narrators, world literature

A new collection of Son Bo-Mi’s stories arrives in English

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

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Every Book You Need To Read This Summer Is Out in June

June 2, 2026June 6, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Andrew Sean Greer, Andrew Wilson, Ann Patchett, book recommendations, book roundup, books, Brandon Sanderson, Caroline Kepnes, Deb Haaland, Fantasy, fiction, Harper, historical fiction, horror novels, Isabel J Kim, Jason Kelce, June 2026 books, Knopf, Lisa See, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, Marilyn Monroe, Mary H.K. Choi, memoirs, new books, Paul Tremblay, Peter Orullian, romance novels, science fiction, Scribner, Son Bo mi, summer books, summer reading, Tor Books, Travis Kelce

15 new releases you need: from Maggie O’Farrell to Deb Haaland, from Travis Kelce to Marilyn Monroe

The Unforgettable Women of ‘Men Like Ours’

May 14, 2026May 13, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments 2026 books, abuse and trauma, Big Little Lies, Bindu Bansinath, Bloomsbury Publishing, book culture, book reviews, coming of age fiction, community gossip, contemporary fiction, contemporary literature, cycles of abuse, Desperate Housewives, diaspora literature, Domestic Noir, domestic thriller, family secrets, female friendships, female solidarity, feminist fiction, generational trauma, immigrant communities, immigrant families, immigration stories, Indian American fiction, Indian diaspora, literary fiction, literary thrillers, Men Like Ours, mother daughter relationships, multicultural fiction, murder mystery, mystery novels, neighborhood drama, New Jersey suburbs, New York writers, psychological fiction, South Asian American writers, South Asian fiction, suburban drama, suspense novels, The Cut magazine, transnational identity, women and community, women’s fiction

The Cut’s Bindu Bansinath pens a suburban thriller about solidarity

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In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice

April 7, 2026April 10, 2026 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment American literature, autofiction, Ben Lerner, book reviews 2026, books about identity, books about language, contemporary fiction, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Jewish writers, literary fiction, new literary releases, novels about family, parent child relationships, psychological fiction, Transcription A Novel

Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but

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