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A recent spate of imports from Japan with many appeals for readers are hitting bookshelves: deceptively simple, heartwarming stories that feature books, cats, comfort food, and coffee. Settle into a [...]

We here at Booklist believe that a beach read is in the eye of the beholder. Any engrossing book that transports the reader to anywhere but where they are qualifies [...]

With the hope of including as many participants as possible in book discussions, while also expanding and deepening reading and listening experiences, we recommend these outstanding works of fiction, nonfiction, [...]

Kate Morton is known for writing about deeply held family secrets--usually centered around a once-fabulous house--and for using parallel narratives, a technique that tells two different stories, in two different [...]

Generations clash, sure, but they can also learn from one another, as these tales of intergenerational relationships attest. From humorous to heartbreaking, the tone of these novels varies, but the [...]

Being the child of immigrants can be an exercise in managing expectations: of an often close-knit community, of traditional gender roles, of a society that looks at immigrants with prejudice. [...]

As beach reading season approaches, we got to thinking: what is a beach read? Is it something fluffy that takes our brains on a vacation? Yes! But then how do [...]

Memoirs from those in the entertainment world seem to dominate this month's Hot List, but keep an eye out for the big novels here as well.--Susan Maguire Desert Star. By [...]

As book groups seek captivating books that will launch thoughtful conversations, they will be looking for recent titles that explore such social-justice issues as racism, sexism, climate change, immigration, and [...]

The Top 10 women's fiction titles reviewed in Booklist from April 15,2021 through April 1, 2022 explore relationships of all stripes--friends, partners, mothers, and children--in slyly funny, deeply poignant, and [...]

From Little Women to How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents to My Sister's Keeper, stories about sisters have resonated with readers for generations. Authors of women's fiction, in particular, [...]

These outstanding books, reviewed in Booklist from July 2020 through June 2021, will spark discussions on language, history, family, how to live in society, and so much more. Nonfiction Cultish: [...]

Fall promises a veritable smorgasbord of high-demand titles, from heists to tell-alls to animal attacks to shoes. Dig in!--Susan Maguire Apples Never Fall. By Liane Moriarty. Holt, $28.99 (9781250220257). Sept. [...]

These recent books combine the best world building and twisty plots of speculative fiction with humor that is dark, pun-tastic, or slapstick. Sure, they owe a lot to genre-comedy masters [...]

This article from Booklist Reader highlights a collection of adult books that explore intergenerational relationships. The novels cover a range of tones and themes, but all emphasize the importance of learning from both youth and age. Some of the featured books include "Black Candle Women" by Diane Marie Brown, which follows four generations of Montrose women navigating family secrets and a curse, and "The Love Story of Missy Carmichael" by Beth Morrey, which tells the story of a lonely elderly woman who finds new friends and purpose in her life. These novels offer diverse perspectives on the complexities of intergenerational connections. [Extracted from the article]

The top ten works of contemporary women's fiction, reviewed in Booklist from May 1, 2019, to April 1,2020, cover everything from family to inheritance to grief to firefighting, so if [...]

Ever since Proust dipped a madeleine in a cup of tea, writers have been using the magic of baked goods to express emotional depths. And why not? The mere act [...]

Ripped-from-the-headlines contemporary fiction, a few memoirs without titles, and some big series news: this list will help you plan ahead for early 2020 so there will be no need to [...]

These books, reviewed in Booklist from July 2018 through June 2019, will spark discussion in a wide variety of book groups, from those that drink wine to those that don't. [...]

The hot fiction for 2019 is starting to roll in, and it looks like it's equal parts feel-good sweet and edge-of-your-seat dark. Plus, a few nonfiction titles dig into the [...]