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

A pair of unlikely sleuths face yet another murder in Regency England. Born more than a century too early to be formally diagnosed, Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of ...

A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America’s greatest writer. It makes sense that distinguished biographer Chernow (Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton) has ...

Atwood goes back to Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), consistently regarded as a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, has gained new attention in recent years with the success of the Hulu series ...

Torok presents a beginner’s guide to an alternative energy-healing therapy and its potential health benefits. The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ...

Laura Atkins calls herself a magpie; on nature walks, she looks out for sea glass, rocks, and anything else that catches her fancy. The habit has served her well.

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

Stephen King’s Kirkus-starred 2020 novella collection, If It Bleeds, features some of the horror master’s most intriguing tales of recent years.The title story, for instance, is a thoughtful, creepy ...

Featuring 287 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Maggie Stiefvater, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Medina, and J.D. Netto; and ...

A follow-on to the author’s garbled but popular 48 Laws of Power, promising that readers will learn how to win friends and influence people, to say nothing of outfoxing all those “toxic types” out in ...