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The must-read novels of 2026.

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are few pleasures—or responsibilities—I appreciate as much as the chance to survey a whole year’s ...

In his fifteenth novel, award-winning author Gerald Everett Jones invites readers on an intriguing emotional journey ...

English teachers have long claimed reading books makes you a better person, maybe because their livelihoods have long depended on it. Now they've got proof, courtesy of the science wing. But not just ...

Over the past two decades, literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are increasingly written by women and read by women. In 2004, about half the authors on the New York Times ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

Writer Canisia Lubrin, known for her poetry, has won this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which honors women and nonbinary storytellers in the U.S. and Canada. Lubrin's debut fiction work, ...

Haruki Murakami, trans. by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, Nov. 19 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-80197-0) Murakami revisits the setting of 1985’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, where shadows become ...

Nominees for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction, Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, were announced over the holidays. Presented by the Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Museum, the ...