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TOP 10 Animal Albums from A to Z by Cece Bell Walker Featuring songs with vivid characters, bizarre storylines and plenty of humor, this picture book is the best kind [...]

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 [...]

Freester's First Easter by Kris Benny Freester's First Easter is an adorable picture book that captures the magic of Easter through the eyes of a little rabbit named Freester. He's [...]

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 [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / ARTS The List Best books… Niall Williams [I.The Irish novelist and playwright chooses his five favourite books. His latest novel,] Time of the Child [I.(Bloomsbury £16.99), [...]

IN THIS ISSUE READERS RECOMMEND Name: Hannah Be Amazing! An inspiring guide to being your own champion [I.by Chris Hoy] “Inspirational, motivating, energising. I like this book because it reminds [...]

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 [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / The List ARTS Best books… Edmund de Waal [I.The artist, writer and chair of the 2024 Booker Prize panel describes this year’s shortlist: the six best [...]

[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 [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / The List ARTS Best books… Kate Summerscale [I.The writer of the No. 1 bestseller] The Suspicions of Mr Whicher [I.chooses her favourite true crime works. Her [...]

BATHROOMS / BOOKS Reading LIST Books for beneath the Christmas tree – or a little gift from me to me? Either way, take your pick from our seasonal selection Words [...]

[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 [...]

It is a good thing to read quality novels with children. Many titles deserve this privilege. Below, are some of the best examples you should consider. We also explain why [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / The List ARTS Best books… Robert McCrum [I.The writer and editor recommends books on the sporting life. His new book,] The Penalty Kick: The Story of [...]

[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 [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / The List ARTS Best books… Sarah Rainsford [I.The BBC’s Eastern Europe correspondent on books that explain Putin’s Russia. She’ll discuss her book] Goodbye to Russia [I.(Bloomsbury [...]

The BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent on books that explain Putin's Russia. She'll discuss her book ' (https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1679923&xcust=theweekus_us_1403241598463233664&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-week-bookshop.myshopify.com%2Fproducts%2Fgoodbye-to-russia-by-sarah-rainsford&sref=https%3A%2F%2Ftheweek.com%2Fculture-life%2Fbooks%2Fsarah-rainsford-shares-the-best-books-to-explain-putins-russia) Goodbye to Russia' at the Stratford Literary Festival on 27 October. A Dirty [...]

[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 [...]

Channel 4 News[I.’s International Editor chooses her favourite books of poetry. She will present her book] I Brought the War with Me [I.(Chatto £16.99) at the London Literature Festival on [...]

[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 [...]

The Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth, 1897 (OUP £16.99). This been in my pantheon since I was a PhD student trying to reconcile my subversive respect for domestic skills with [...]

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, [...]

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, 1938 (Arrow £9.99). Although, it could be nearly any one of a dozen of his works. Unlike, say, Dorothy Parker, Wodehouse is [...]

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 [...]

THE BEE STING By Paul Murray (Picador. 656 pp. $20.) Murray's novel, one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2023, is a tragicomic tale narrated in turns by [...]

The Spare Room by Helen Garner, 2008 (Canongate £9.99). What would you do if your beloved friend, dying from cancer, came to stay while undergoing treatment at the hands of [...]

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 [...]

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 1904 (Vintage £7.99). Much, much wilder and stranger than Disney would have you believe, Barrie’s original Peter Pan is dangerous, exciting and also, as his [...]

Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson with Lindsey Bareham, 1994 (Ebury £22). As I discovered when I came to write my own, good cookbooks aren’t just about great [...]

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 [...]

Dwight Garner writes that voters, who ''seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage,'' looked for immersive reads. A long friendship between two girls in a poor neighborhood in [...]

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 [...]

REGULARS / BOOKS Reading LIST Enter the new season with this armful of new books, packed with arty ideas and inspiration for your home Words Catherine Coyle 1 How They [...]

You Are... by Lauren Brownrigg What does it mean when we tell our children, 'You are Loved?' The You Are Series Volume One is the first in a multi-book series [...]

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 [...]

TOP 10 All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby Cosby's nerve-jangling, thought-provoking, often heartbreaking mystery follows the first Black sheriff of a rural county in Virginia as he tracks a [...]

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 [...]