​Issue 135: March/April 2025
Best Books List 2024
Best Psychological Thrillers
Lily Tuck and The Rest Is Memory
What's Your Story? Great Second-Person Narration 
​New Books Guide: 50 New Books Reviewed!
Book Group, Reader Picks, Awards, and More!

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Issue 134: January/February 2025

• Best Books 2024
• Laura Dave Interview
• Middle-Grade Fiction Spotlight
• Love of Life Library
• ​New Books Guide: 50 New Books Reviewed!
• Book Group, Reader Picks, Awards, and More!

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Issue 133: November/December 2024
Classics of Political Fiction & Nonfiction
Short & Sweet Novellas to Round Out Your Reading Goals
Sarah Manguso: Her Oeuvre and New Novel
​New Books Guide: 50 New Books Reviewed!
Book Group, Reader Picks, Awards, and More!

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Issue 132: September/October 2024
Kevin Barry and Irish Novelists 
Back to School! Fiction and Nonfiction 
Influential Books 
​New Books Guide: 50 New Books Reviewed!
Book Group, Reader Picks, Awards, and More!

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Issue 131: July/Aug 2024
Happy July 4th! Founding Figures & Fiction
The Plight of the Middle-Aged Woman
Ann Hood: Her Oeuvre and New Novel
​New Books Guide: 50 New Books Reviewed!
Book Group, Reader Picks, Awards, and More!

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​Issue 130: May/June 2024
New Books Guide
New Cookbooks Roundup! 
Margot Livesey: Her Oeuvre and New Novel 
The Five Senses in Fiction and Nonfiction
Reader Picks, Book Group, Awards, and More! 

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129: March/April 2024
Great International Crime Fiction
The "It" Narrative
Fictional Countries and Their Flags: For All Ages! 
New Books Guide
Reader Picks, Book Group, Awards, and More! 

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​Issue 128 January/February 2024 
Best Books 2023: A Look Back at Our Favorites
Fiction for Winter
Elsa Morante
New Books Guide
Reader Picks, Book Group, Awards, and More!

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​127: November/December 2023
New Year's Resolutions: Books to Help!?! 
Young Adult Fiction for All Ages
Zadie Smith 
New Books Guide: 50 Books to Put on Your Fall Reading List!
Book Group, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 126: Sept/Oct 2023

• Richard Ford and the Final (?) Bascombe Novel
• Artists & Muses in Fiction
• Back to the Classroom! Fiction and Nonfiction
• New Books Guide: 50 Books to Put on Your Fall Reading List!
• Book Group, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 125: July/August 2023
David Grann
Cathleen Schine
Films of Fiction Festival 
New Books Guide: 50 Books to Put on Your Summer Reading List!
Awards, Reader Picks, and More!​

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Issue 124: May/June 2023
Thomas Mallon: An Interview, His New Novel, and His Oeuvre
Patrick Modiano: The French Nobel Laureate and His Fiction
May Sarton
New Books Guide: 50 Books to Put on Your List!
Awards, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 123: March/April 2023
What's New in Latin America? New Fiction in English Translation
Shirley Hazzard: Her Oeuvre, and a New Biography
Graphic Nonfiction
New Books Guide: 50 Books to Put on Your List!
Awards, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 122: January/February 2023
George Saunders's New Book and Oeuvre
Gothic Literature
Best Books of 2022
Brad Parks
New Books Guide, Awards, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 121: November/December 2022
If You Like Agatha Christie ... 
Women in Science: Fiction and Nonfiction 
Novels to Movies 
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 120: September/October 2022
The Gilded Age in Fiction and Nonfiction
Cormac McCarthy: His Oeuvre
Little House on the Prairie: The Classics and New Perspectives 
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 119: July/Aug 2022
Jean Hanff Korelitz and Her Must-Read New Novel! 
What's New in Asia: Recent Fiction in English Translation
Flyover Country: Midwestern Fiction and Nonfiction 
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

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​Issue 118: May/June 2022
Jennifer Haigh 
Simon Mawer
A Celebration of the Essay
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

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Issue 117: March/April 2022
Claire Keegan and Ireland's Open Secret
What's New in Europe: New Fiction in English Translation
Incarceration in Fiction and Nonfiction
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

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Issue 116: January/February 2022
Elif Shafak: Turkey's Most Controversial Novelist
The Crime Novels and Inspirations of Tod and Lee Goldberg
Best Books of 2021: 60 Bookmarks Selections, Reviewed
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

​Issue 115: November/December 2021
New Perspectives on the Past: Recent Historical Fiction 
Colm Tóibín: His Oeuvre and His New Novel, The Magician 
Lauren Groff: Her Novels and Newest Work, The Matrix 
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

Issue 114: September/October 2021
Michael Pollan: His Food Books, and His Books on ... Drugs
Shirley Jackson: Her Horror and Domestic Books, and Her Letters
World War II Resistance: Fiction and Nonfiction
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

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Issue 113: July/Aug 2021
Richard Flanagan: The Australian Novelist 
Joan Silber and Her Stories-in-Novels
True Crime Narratives
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

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Issue 112: May/June 2021
Kazuo Ishiguro: His Oeuvre and New Novel, Klara and the Sun
Rose Tremain's Novels and Memoir 
Not Just for Kids: Young Adult Fiction for Readers of All Ages​
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 111: March/April 2021
Joan Didion: Her Work and New Essay Collection
William Boyd: His Oeuvre and New Novel, Trio
Contemporary Australian Fiction 
Best of Best Lists of 2020: The Top Five Books to Read Now
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 110: January/February 2021
Best Books of 2020: Our Selections from the Past Year
Jess Walter: His Oeuvre and New Novel, The Cold Millions
Troubled Souls in Fiction
Awards
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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​Issue 109: November/December 2020
Fredrik Backman: His Oeuvre and New Novel, Anxious People
The Food Memoir (Just in Time for the Holidays!) 
Daphne du Maurier (She's Back in Vogue) 
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 108: September/October 2020
Pandemic Fiction & Nonfiction: Then and Now
Maggie O'Farrell: Her Oeuvre and New (Pandemic) Novel, Hamnet 
David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue and Mitchell's Kaleidoscopic Multiverse
Awards: Booker Prize Longlist 
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Book Group, Now in Paperback, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, and More! 

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​Issue 107: July/August 2020
Hollywood Memoirs
N.K. Jemisin
Paulette Jiles
Lois Lowry
New Books Guide
Book Group, Reader Picks, and More!

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• ​Issue 106: May/June 2020
• Time Travel Novels
• Elena Ferrante
• Anne Enright
• New Books Guide
• Awards, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More!

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• Issue 105: March/April 2020
• Best of the Best of 2019
• Hilary Mantel
• William Gibson 
• Architects in Fiction 
  Modern Czech Literature in English Translation
  
• New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More!

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​Issue 104: January/February 2020
Best Books of 2019
Alexandra Fuller
Svetlana Alexievich
Book Group
New Books Guide: 50 New Books to Read!
Now in Paperback, Coming Soon, Reader Picks, Awards, and More! 

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Issue 103, November/December 2019
Feel Good Reads
Ann Patchett and ​The Dutch House
A Toni Morrison Retrospective
New Books Guide, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 102, September/October 2019
Margaret Atwood: A Return to Gilead
Colson Whitehead
Mark Haddon
Nelson Algren
Booker Prize
​New Books Guide, Reader Picks, and More!

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Issue 101, July/August 2019 
Remembering Herman Wouk
Remembering Tony Horwitz 
Nathan Englander
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Turkish Fiction in English Translation 
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More!​
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Happy Birthday to Us! Issue 100, May/June 2019 
The Best Ghost Story Novels
​Diana Athill (1917-2019)
Miriam Toews and the Mennonite World 
Valeria Luiselli 
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, Awards, and More!​

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Issue 99, March/April 2019
Best of the Best Books of 2018
Dani Shapiro 
Astronomy, Cosmology, and Space Travel
Civil War Fiction 
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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​Issue 98, January/February 2019
New Voices of the American South 
Sebastian Faulks
Entrepreneur & Business Biographies and Memoirs
Liane Moriarty
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 97, November/December 2018
Literary Imposters and Impersonators
Perfect Books for Winter
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 96, September/October 2018
U.S.-Mexico Border Tales: Fiction and Nonfiction
The Vietnam War in Fiction and Nonfiction
Short Story Collections
Megan Abbott
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 95, July/August 2018
The Best Cozy Mysteries
Meg Wolitzer
South Korean Novels in English Translation
Adventure Sports: Nonfiction
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 94, May/June 2018
Books for Music Lovers
Medieval Europe
Depression-Era Reading
Awards
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 93, March/April 2018 
Great Stand-Alone Fantasies
Martin Amis
Robert Harris
Best of the Best Books of 2017
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 92, January/February 2018
100 Years of Feminist Fiction
Jennifer Egan
Addiction Memoirs
Best Books of 2017
Awards
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 91, November/December 2017
Big Contemporary Novels Worth the Effort
Sherman Alexie
Kamila Shamsie 
Books for Library Lovers
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Is​sue 90, September/October 2017
Scandinavian Fiction in English Translation
Tom Perrotta
Books for Foodies: Fiction and Nonfiction
Awards
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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​Issue 89, July/August 2017
Contemporary Russia in Fiction and Nonfiction 
Dennis Lehane
Elizabeth Strout
Awards
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 88, May/June 2017 
The Campus Novel
Colonial America: Fiction and Nonfiction
Hari Kunzru 
Awards
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 87, March/April 2017
Best of the Best Books of 2016
Books for Animal Lovers
Modern Magical Realism
Jonathan Coe
Awards
New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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Issue 86, January/February 2017 
Modern America: A Nonfiction Reading List
Caroline Leavitt
Best Books of 2016
​New Books Guide, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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​Issue 85, November/December 2016
Contemporary Italian Literature
Tommy Wieringa
Jonathan Safran Foer
New Books Guide, Awards, Book Group, Reader Picks, and More! 

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