With 2026 officially underway, our editors and reporters are already looking ahead to the books they can’t wait to get their ...

A unique blend of narrative historical nonfiction and family memoir, “Second Chance” is as suspenseful and riveting as it is ...

Sales of non-fiction books have tumbled by 8.4% by volume – nearly double the dip seen in fiction paperback sales – between last summer and this. Overall, the total value of sales in the sector ...

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

Is it really the end of the year? The calendar says so, as does the sun setting at 2:30 in the afternoon, which means it’s time for the Biblioracle Book Awards, my bespoke acknowledgements of the most ...

In Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfinder,” a highlight in a strong year of fiction, a young woman on a Polynesian island more than 500 years in the past ponders the significance of a whale that has beached on ...

Cinnamon Janzer is a Minneapolis-based independent writer with an affinity for the Great Plains, who publishes place-based, narrative nonfiction stories in a variety of local, national, and ...

If you’ve ever read a Susan Orlean book — “The Orchid Thief,” “Rin Tin Tin” or “The Library Book,” say — and didn’t want it to end, here’s good news. There’s more. Her memoir, “Joyride,” a chronicle ...

Cinnamon Janzer is a Minneapolis-based independent writer with an affinity for the Great Plains, who publishes place-based, narrative nonfiction stories in a variety of local, national, and ...

The story of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder almost seems too outrageous to be real, but that’s exactly what makes it so gripping. David Grann, whose previous work includes Killers ...

How did Kamala Harris pull off a marathon 107-day campaign for president? The story is now yours. Announcing the book in July, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp told The New York Times “107 Days” ...