T he best of this year's fiction features characters who, like so many, feel like they don't belong anywhere, even when ...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.

As the end of the year approaches, we're looking back at our reading lists for the standouts from 2024. Below, PEOPLE's ...

and Sujata Massey—TIME presents the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books, in chronological order beginning in the 1800s This project is led by Lucy ...

A work of speculative fiction about a ... but as is the case with all stories, things get more complicated as feelings get involved. "She just created the best book boyfriend ever," BookTokker ...

The opening page of Malka Older’s new book says simply, “There are other ways to live.” That idea carries through so many of this year’s best science-fiction books, which are full of ...

T he best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the ...

James By Percival Everett It was a big year for the writer whose publisher used to be Minnesota-based Graywolf Press.

In the spring, Faber’s best prospects will be books by Eimear McBride ... once and for all, the incompatibility of good fiction, which is rich and complex, with “cancel culture”, which ...

We delve into each of these books on a special edition of the Book Review podcast, and we break down three picks in a handy ...