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A M Heath Twice Upon a Time Michelle Harrison Middle-grade featuring twin sisters who can stop time...but can they solve a murder? Agent Julia Churchill Rights UK (Simon & Schuster [...]

FICTION [??] EDITORS PICK Little Ships: A Novel Sandra Scofield | WellstoneBooks 356p, trade paper,S17.95, ISBN 978-1-93083-531-3 This incisive, richly emotional novel finds Scofield (author of Gringa) surveying, with scrupulous [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK Spillage Michael Gross | [...]

42 Terrible Humans: The World's Most Corrupt Super-Villains And The Fight To Bring Them Down Patrick Alley An insight into the world's worst warlords, grifters and kleptocrats who can be [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS EDITOR'S PICK Naked: The Confessions of [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. POETRY [??] EDITOR'S PICK Skies of Blur Elijah [...]

This season's slate of notable debut fiction draws on Native American and Igbo lore; Chinese numerology; class divisions in London, Rio de Janeiro, and Berkeley, Calif.; familial strife; and reparations. [...]

Love, marriage, and everything that follows are evergreen topics for religion and spirituality publishers, and forthcoming books are delving into many of the challenges today's families face. New titles highlight [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK Wild About Harry Henry [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR S PICK The Fallen Woman's [...]

Spring books feature historical fashions, new revelations about WWII technological innovations, wide-ranging surveys on the history of Black identity, and biographies of 20th-century Chinese political figures and families. TOP 10 [...]

This season's lifestyle offerings traverse the history and future of psychedelics; advise on breaking free of toxic bonds; and suggest drug-free treatments for battling burnout, anxiety, and autoimmune disease. TOP [...]

Spring's highlights explore gender, sexuality, activism, performance, self-expression, and the legacy of colonialism on the art world. TOP 10 Adrian Piper: Funk Lessons Elvan Zabunyan. Afterall, Feb. 6 ($19.95 trade [...]

FICTION POP FICTION Andrews, Mary Kay. Summers at the Saint. St. Martin's. May 2024.448p. ISBN 9781250278388. $29. F Andrews kicks off beach-read season with a story set at the Saint, [...]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Senior editor Dolly Setton, who writes this column, is out of commission this year due to a temporary sports injury. In her absence, we invited children's book publishers [...]

Meadow: The Intimate Bond Between People, Place and Plants by lain Parkinson, with Photography by Jim Holden, Kew Publishing, Royal Botanical Gardens, 2022; 228 pages; $35.00 Hay meadows, iconic elements [...]

Older Readers Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed. By Dashka Slater. Farrar, $20.99 (9780374314347). Gr. 9-12. This account of [...]

Adult Books Seeking the truth about the past and the present is a mission pursued on many fronts and in remarkably varied modes in the most exceptional 2023 books for [...]

Journalism & Publishing Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up). By Alexandra Petri. Norton, $27.95 (9781324006435). Washington Post humor columnist Petri presents historical documents of dubious provenance [...]

When it comes to giving gifts, it's hard to go wrong with words. Here are some of the wordy gifts we'll be giving this Christmas. Most of the books I [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. NONACTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK Cheerfulness Garrison Keillor | [...]

University presses seem to be going from strength to strength, with an increased focus on the trade market to complement their traditional areas of expertise. This is evident from the [...]

Since the publication of Educated by Tara Westover five years ago this month, February always seems to bring an extra-large helping of memoirs. And as if in tribute to Westover's [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION EDITORS PICK Please Write: A Novel in [...]

From apex predators to precious pets, animal books capture the interest and imagination of young learners. The best of this season's series use engaging text and expertly designed visual content [...]

The upcoming series in arts and recreation are centered on popular culture topics and activities. From traditional science labs to new fandoms, the majority of the titles below encourage further [...]

January's paperbacks arrive in a swirl of New Year themes focusing on re-examination as much as resolutions. It is a good month for historical fiction with Tom Crewe's debut novel, [...]

In this preview of titles from the region I've called home for almost 20 years, many of the south-west's most alluring attributes are richly reflected: its glorious coastline and inland [...]

American Anarchy Michael Willrich (Basic) $35 * Willrich examines late 19th- and early 20th-century anarchism through a legal lens in this innovative account, which focuses on Emma Goldman, her romantic [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK Half a Cup of [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. ROMANCE [??]EDITOR'S PICK Flipping the Record Heather J. [...]

Almost a third of longlistees for this year's Booker Prize are Irish novelists. The reason? A strong literary tradition and an investment in literary culture, according to James Shapiro, a [...]

FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Pallbearers of Thanksgiving Milo Savich | Unwritten History, Inc. 92p, trade paper, $14.95, ISBN 978-1-7374709-3-9 "Dey're actin' like dey can get away wid anything," a [...]

Literary The Armor of Light Kingsbridge, Book 4 | KEN FOLLETT: The sequel to A Column of Fire takes place in 19th-century Europe, when a world filled with change, unrest, [...]

Over the course of 25 years, the Spirituality+Health community has gathered quite the library. Our contributors have published dozens of their own books, and we've had the opportunity to feature [...]

Spring brings new perspectives on borders and migrants, surveys of censorship in schools, investigations into government influence peddling, and studies of how to win elections and control disinformation. TOP 10 [...]

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley, by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans. (Holt, 400 pp., $19.99.) This biography traces the life of Tony [...]

EVERY LIVING THING: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, by Jason Roberts. (Random House. 422 pp. $35.) Most of us have heard of the 18th-century taxonomist Carl [...]

IT IS DIFFICULT to wrap your mind around California. The Golden State is larger and more populous than many countries, with an economy to match. It is home to towering [...]

WHERE SLEEPING GIRLS LIE, by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. (Feiwel & Friends, $19.99.) Àbíké-Íyímídé returns with a murder mystery about a new student at an esteemed boarding school who gets pulled into [...]

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert. (Holt, 352 pp., $19.99.) Kolbert's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the mass extinction of living species takes place on ''the front lines [...]

DEATH STYLES, by Joyelle McSweeney. (Nightboat, paperback, $17.95.) After McSweeney's infant daughter died, she found herself unable to write for two years. She made her way back via the torrent [...]

HOUSING THE NATION: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing, edited by Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse. (Rizzoli, $35.) A single book can hardly hope to solve the [...]

The Trackers, by Charles Frazier. (Ecco, 336 pp., $19.99.) In Depression-era Wyoming, Val Welch, a painter, is living with an art collector while working on a New Deal-funded mural. When [...]

LIKE LOVE: Essays and Conversations, by Maggie Nelson. (Graywolf, $32.) The author of ''The Argonauts'' and ''Bluets'' shares nearly 20 years of writings cataloging her intellectual interests and inspirations, including [...]

Take What You Need, by Idra Novey. (Penguin, 256 pp., $18.) When her former stepmother Jean dies and leaves Leah the sculptures she spent her final years creating, Leah returns [...]

THE MORNINGSIDE, by Téa Obreht. (Random House. 304 pp. $29.) After being displaced from their homeland, Silvia and her mother move into the Morningside, a weather-beaten luxury apartment building in [...]

Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey. (Picador, 416 pp., $19.) C.M., the New York City journalist narrating this novel, hated the biography published about her late wife, an artist named [...]