Everyone knows that if you want to be a better author, you need to read. And sure, everyone needs to read, but you can’t ...

Two killers are on the loose. Can they be stopped? In this ambitious mystery, the prolific and popular King tells the story of a serial murderer who pledges, in a note to Buckeye City police, to kill ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

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Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, ...

Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” In R.F. Kuang’s highly anticipated new novel, Katabasis (Harper Voyager, Aug. 26), Hell is higher education. A mishap with a pentagram has splattered acclaimed ...

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

Bill Gates has released his annual summer reading list, consisting of five memoirs that the business executive and philanthropist says helped inspire his own. Microsoft co-founder Gates published his ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Don Winslow was done with writing, but writing wasn’t done with him. The crime novelist, who announced he was retiring from the fiction world in 2022, will publish a new collection of short novels ...