Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

November 19-25, 2024. This is the last big week in the book world because next week is Black Friday. And most publishers want ...

Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, ...

This picture book biography shares about the life of Mary ... every word and avoid many spellings of the same word. It was a ...

With new releases from household names like Percival Everett, Kristin Hannah, Leigh Bardugo, and Malcolm Gladwell, the Amazon ...

Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel and Prince Harry, we learn from A Voyage Around the Queen (Fourth Estate, £25), have each ...

This new collection of poems by Jeet Thayil marks the writer’s return from his self-avowed exile from poetry, declared in his ...

This year’s very best biographies and memoirs certainly cover some varied terrain, emotionally and otherwise. Fans of literary biographies have been treated to books providing enlightening new ...

I know I can always escape into novels by P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick O’Brian and find strength in biographies of past leaders ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

He's still the king. 'Carson the Magnificent,' Bill Zehme's long-awaited Johnny Carson biography, is officially a New York ...

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