The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 jumped 32.5% over 2024, according to statistics compiled by Bowker, led by a boom in self-published titles. The number of traditionally publishe...

This is one of those publishing stories where the author—and in this case the translator too—waited for years, certain that their work deserved a wider audience, and was forced to stand patiently b…

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.

Susana M. Morris’s new book, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, is a magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongsi...

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Plus Angela Flournoy’s “The Wilderness.”

See PEOPLE's picks for the best books of September 2025, including new memoirs, novels and more.

Nino Haratischwili discusses nostalgia and the chaos of 1990s Georgia in her epic novel “The Lack of Light”

“The Dilemmas of Working Women,” by Fumio Yamamoto, explores how our identities are shaped by our jobs, or lack thereof.

There are only two weekends remaining before, somehow, September returns. Some people may feel this is an appropriate time to urge everyone to make the most of it! Get outside! Do things!—well, that f...

A new biography reveals the innermost thoughts of the groundbreaking novelist whose work in the 1980s and ’90s predicted our lives right now.

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