“There’s no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love,” prolific American author Christopher Morley once said. In 2026, bookworms will fall in love over and over again: With ...

It was another incredible year in reading. Here are our favorite 20 books—including memoirs, buzzy literary fiction, and captivating histories—of 2025. Susan Choi’s engrossing new novel begins with a ...

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We’re as much the products of the books we read as we are of the times we live in. The 20 books in the list below certainly shaped me: I owe them my career as a classicist, and the seven books I’ve ...

I guess I could explain the plot to you: An actress meets up with a man who is convinced she's his mother. It turns out she's not. I think? Maybe she is? Or, maybe she's not but actually kind of is?