The year 2025 has been a horrifying year, but at least we’ve had excellent horror stories to get us through. ...

Here are the five most-read books on Goodreads this week! These are the buzziest books of the moment, from romantasy to thrillers.

Around this time of year, I find myself reaching for books that feel like a comfort while dealing with grief.

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. A time of celebration is now upon us: the literary awards year has closed,

Joy Williams’s The Pelican Child, John Edgar Wideman’s Languages of Home, and Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home

In The Ha-Ha, Jennifer Dawson relies on her own history as a patient in a psychiatric hospital to tell the story of Josephine Traughton, a young woman who suffers a breakdown while studying at Oxford in the 1950s and is

Back at Mount Rushmore the following day, I looked at the four presidents from the Grand View Terrace, the only spot at the actual memorial that offers an uninterrupted frontal view of Gutzon Borglum’s sculpture. Because of this, the terrace

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Every story has an equilibrium to be disturbed, and this one opens with a stranger on my doorstep. He stands bright-eyed beneath my porchlight with a sheepdog at his heel.

On Friday as always I built the damn machine. As always I washed each individual part—the hopper, the spigot, the nozzle, the pump, the washers, the gaskets, the nuts, the screws—with scalding-hot water and soap. I dried each individual part

In the highly anticipated trailer, we see a young Haymitch Abernathy chosen to participate in the 50th annual Hunger Games in a past Panem.

The National Book Awards winners have been announced, J.R.R. Tolkien did not like Walt Disney, a SUNRISE ON THE REAPING trailer, and more.

Pulling together the 64 original Literary Twitter moments and incidents to create our winter game, What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket, required the vast institutional memory of the entire Lit Hub team, who each had their personal favorite e-dramas to

It’s day four, and only 8 out of original 64 are left after yesterday’s voting! The polls today will determine who wins their quadrant (or is it “region”? Or “zone”? We’re not sports people) and advances to the semifinals. It’s

Here are the best YA books of 2025, including Book Riot's picks, trade journal picks, and more.

2025 has been a year of contradictions: hyperconnectivity and loneliness, political theater and private reckoning, a collective desire to scream without forgetting how to whisper. Each collection on this year’s list speaks to that tension.  In Taylor Byas’s Resting Bitch Face, anger threads through joy and poems continually return to the charged moment when honesty […] The post Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2025 appeared first on Electric Literature.

Las Vegas, Before an Election by Monica Macansantos On my first trip down the Strip, while sitting inside the car of my mother’s friend, I find myself performing the futile activity of counting hotel room windows floating above me at night. My imagination does the work of multiplying the number of people inside their climate-controlled […] The post Reckoning with the American Dream in Las Vegas appeared first on Electric Literature.

USA Today, Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, and Indie Booksellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

From lesbian litfic to trans nonfiction to M/M romantasy, here are 10 of Book Riot's picks for the best queer books of 2025.

Book Riot staff members share their picks for smart gifting this holiday season.

From surviving the Andes and Everest to surviving the Holocaust, these true stories from history demonstrate incredible resilience.

There are so many new graphic novels for kids coming out every month: here are the ones that earn a place on your shelves.

Here are the best romance books of 2025, ranging from deeply emotional contemporary love stories to romantasy and sci-fi romance!

Fantasy mysteries, fairy tale retellings, genre-blending sci-fi, fae murder ballads, and more of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2025!

It's not just Bridgerton and Wicked! You can watch PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive Jonathan Bailey in these ten book to screen adaptations.

Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards in each of the five categories.