Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

What do Daisy Jones & The Six, The Nightingale, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Song of Achilles all have in common ...

A list of historical fiction, fantasy, and romance books with strong female protagonists who are similar to Claire Fraser.

We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sanderson to the latest from ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

Let’s be real: 2025 is probably going to be the year where we need a whole lot of escapism. For some readers that means immersing themselves in the rich imaginative worlds of fantasy, for others, the ...

This week’s Read This Next focues on new fiction that is well written, absorbing and worth settling into, whether you prefer crime, historical settings or contemporary stories grounded in real life.