Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February.

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...

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Dig into these unmissable accounts of the lives and loves of the British royals—spanning just over 30 years of recent history ...

The story of world music, the mystery of what the universe is made of, the tale of a scientific fraud and more.

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The Japanese author Uketsu, according to his biography, “only ever appears online, wearing a mask and speaking through a ...

The Amazing Book Challenge returns for 2025 with 12 new themes designed to take readers on an unexpected literary adventure.

Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and ...

January saw plenty of big releases, from new Freida McFadden to Rebecca Yarros' romantasy title "Onyx Storm" to "More or Less Maddy" from Lisa Genova.

6."Rereading a classic or personal favorite always helps me get my reading mojo back. Also, any Shakespeare. But, I love to reread short, inspiring non-fiction to get me up and running again, like The ...

As February beckons, I wanted to look at the books I read last year that stayed with me, and that you might enjoy.