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New year… new bookshelf! At least that’s how we feel around here; nothing quite beats the thrill of a new book season. Madeline Cash’s delightful debut about ...

Two fiction books about good friends coming from different circumstances. Two biographies of people whose influence on American culture is, arguably, still underrated. One Liza Minnelli memoir. These ...

New year, new literary adventures. Authors Isaac Fitzgerald and Adriana Trigiani stopped by TODAY on the last day of 2025 to talk through the books they're looking forward to in the coming year. Their ...

From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. The latest from the Pulitzer ...

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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In this prodigiously researched epic, Torigian details the life of Xi Zhongxun—the father of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping—to explain the history of the Chinese Communist Party. Along the way, ...

Amazon Books editors have once again emerged from the literary battlefield, crowning "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy the "Best Book of the Year So Far." Around the halfway point every year, ...

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