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FICTION POP FICTION Cantor, Jillian. The Greatest Lie of All. Park Row. Dec. 2024. ISBN 9780778310914. pbk. 320p. $18.99. FICTION In bestselling Cantor's (The Fiction Writer) latest, actor Amelia Grant [...]

FICTION POP FICTION Evans, Richard Paul. Christmas in Bethel. Gallery. Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781668014882. 224p. $19.99. FICTION Bestselling Evans (The Christmas Promise) returns with his signature Christmas novel in time [...]

The scope and depth of mind-body-spirit writing today are greater than ever. Publishers see new works by scholars and practitioners that draw from ancient wells of wisdom and tap contemporary [...]

When we set out to write a few pages about this issue's centennial mini-theme of middle grade, we were somewhat daunted, and with good reason. We've said this before, but--it's [...]

A preview of new titles published between May 2024-April 2025 For this special LGBTQ+ edition of The Bookseller, we've approached the previews a little bit differently, partnering with the Polari [...]

Tendrils of classic Scottish concerns, from the gothic to the landscape, are threaded through the year ahead. Readers' seemingly unquenchable appetite for feminist retellings and witchy tales will be well [...]

RESEARCH SHOWS THAT 80 percent of autistic girls under the age of 18 go undiagnosed (bit.ly/3 SULtHt). Due to this, many girls with autism grow up not understanding I why [...]

[I.Ed Park’s novel] Same Bed Different Dreams[I., now out in paperback, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Below, the [...]

Woolworth, Norman THE LAFITTE AFFAIR Level Best Books (Fiction Fiction) $17.95 8, 20 ISBN: 9781685126988 Woolworth's crime novel serves up a 200-year-old mystery alongside one from the present. As this [...]

Coccia, Paul RECOMMENDED READING Zando Young Readers (Teen None) $19.99 1, 28 ISBN: 9781638931492 Bobby Ashton has a plan for the 'perfect summer before college.' Too bad it's already ended [...]

[I.Kate Summerscale is the best-selling author of] The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher [I.and several other acclaimed works of British true crime. Her latest work is] The Book of Phobias and [...]

[I.Bonnie Jo Campbell is a former National Book Award finalist and author of the novels] Once Upon a River [I.and] The Waters[I..] The Waters[I., about a girl who grows up [...]

[I.Peter Ames Carlin is the author of well-received biographies of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. He turns his attention to music’s subsequent generation [...]

[I.Trevor Noah’s new book,] Into the Uncut Grass[I., is an illustrated fable about a child’s journey beyond the security of home. Below, the former host of] The Daily Show [I.and [...]

[I.In his new sci-fi horror novel], Absolution[I., Jeff VanderMeer returns to the world of 2014’s award-winning] Annihilation, which launched his Southern Reach Trilogy. [I.Below, the best-selling ‘weird fiction’ author recommends [...]

[I.Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award–winning author of] A Geography of Oysters [I.and] Truffle Hound. [I.His new book], Wild Chocolate, [I.tells the stories of the farmers, activists, and chocolatiers [...]

In Rivers Solomon’s new novel, Model Home, three adult siblings revisit traumas, some supernatural, that they experienced while growing up in the sole Black family in a gated suburb. Below, [...]

Abbott Kahler’s new book, Eden Undone, revisits a true story of sex and murder in a 1930s utopian island community. Below, the best-selling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park [...]

Historian and best-selling author H.W. Brands is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His new book, America First, revisits the debate between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh over how [...]

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith is the author of the 2016 best-seller Other Minds, which explored what octopus intelligence reveals about the development of consciousness. His new book, Living on Earth, offers [...]

IN RECENT YEARS the British economy has tended to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Growth has been soggy, inflation has been high and living standards have been [...]

LIFE Books Top SHELF As it turns out, the hottest accessory for the season is the right paperback tucked under your arm. Chandreyee Ray shortlists an all-female line-up of new [...]

Non-fiction A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel John Murray Press, 400pp, 25 [pounds sterling] Hilary Mantel, the beloved Wolf Hall author and double Booker Prize winner, died [...]

TONI MORRISON WROTE, 'Efforts to censor, starve, regulate, and annihilate us are clear signs that something important has taken place. The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the [...]

There are many Ways to measure a year--in calendar days, school semesters, anniversaries, or birthdays; at LJ we measure the year in books. Our bibllometric datebook is marked by titles [...]

The idea that all people can live creative and inspired lives, even if they are in jail, is at the crux of American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (Coffee House Press), [...]

In Chelsea Bieker’s new novel, Madwoman, a married mother of two fears her secret past could be exposed when she’s asked to testify about a traumatic childhood event. Below, the [...]

Helen Phillips is the author of The Need, a singular 2019 thriller longlisted for the National Book Award. In her new novel, Hum, an AI expert made obsolete by AI [...]

Philosopher Todd May was an adviser for NBC’s acclaimed sitcom The Good Place and is the author of 18 books of philosophy. His latest, Should We Go Extinct?, explores whether [...]

Lev Grossman’s new novel, The Bright Sword, follows a young knight who arrives in Camelot just after the fall of King Arthur. Below, the author of the best-selling Magicians trilogy [...]

Amy Stewart is the best-selling author of Wicked Plants, The Drunken Botanist, and several other nonfiction works about the natural world. Her new book is The Tree Collectors, a tribute [...]

In Peng Shepherd’s new novel, All This and More, a 45-year-old game-show contestant is allowed to go back in time to rewrite her life. Below, the author of 2022’s The [...]

In Laura van den Berg’s latest novel, State of Paradise, a woman returns to her Florida hometown and finds it plagued by cults, missing-persons cases, and floods. Below, van den [...]

Conn Iggulden is a British author of historical fiction whose best-selling novels have explored the Khan dynasty, the Wars of the Roses, and ancient Rome. His latest novel, Nero, begins [...]

Novelist Julia Phillips is the author of Disappearing Earth, a 2019 international best-seller that was also a National Book Award finalist. In her new novel, Bear, the bond between two [...]

Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of the 2023 memoir Sink, which chronicles his childhood and the solace he found in geek culture. His debut novel, God Bless You, Otis [...]

Thriller writer Ivy Pochoda is the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and These Women. Sing Her Down, her latest, follows two female ex-cons who carve a bloody trail from Arizona [...]

People love lists. The 1,000 richest people, the 100 places to see before you die, the ten most-wanted fugitives; https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/02/27/explaining-history-through-numerical-groupings-is-in-vogue promise to make the chaos of life more manageable. Benjamin [...]

R.O. Kwon is the best-selling author of The Incendiaries, a 2018 novel that was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. Her acclaimed new novel, Exhibit, follows two women artists who [...]

'I THINK WE ALL KNEW that the award would change the landscape of the literature.' Twenty-three years later, that seems an understatement. It's what Adela Peskorz, professor emerita at Metropolitan [...]

Sometimes the best books don't fit into neat categories, which is the case for my January Book of the Month, Swapna Haddow and Yiting Lee's Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings. In [...]

POLITICAL SCIENCE COMPARATIVE POLITICS Boundless Frontiers: Riace: The Exception that Rejected the Rule, ed. by Alessandra Tedde and Fulvia Teano. Mimesis International, Jan. 2024. pbk ISBN 9788869774430 $23.99 A Brief [...]