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We might have a couple more weeks of 2025 ahead of us, and while there are still a handful of new YA book releases to come, it’s also the time of year when we’re looking ahead and building our...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.2026 Must-Watch Book to...

The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Out in January 2026Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez (Saturday Books, January 13) Isabel Ibañez is making her adult debut with this fantasy romance about dangerous magic. In an attempt to save her...

My earliest reading memorySitting on the sofa with my mum reading Mabel the Whale by Patricia King, with beautiful colour illustrations by Katherine Evans. I think it was pre-school. My mother was not always a patient teacher, and I was...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.The Most Anticipated Books,...

Nearly a century after debuting in Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, the character Harry Haller has reemerged, still on the prowl, as a famous Norwegian photographer in London. Well, not exactly. To be sure, Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s...

The beginning of the books calendar is usually dominated by debuts, but January 2026 sees releases from some of the year’s biggest authors. Known for his surreally bittersweet short stories, George Saunders has written only one novel so far –...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE...

The jury is still out on the merits of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, which arrives in cinemas next month, but there is no arguing with the quality of the source material. Maggie O’Farrell’s lyrical and immersive novel, which won the...

In the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and Wales became Catholics. Among them were a clutch of literary stars: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and Graham Greene. But there was...