2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Fiction

Joy Williams! www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, to…

Maria Reva, @schreibersnaturarium.de, and @edyong209.bsky.social discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.”

Andrew Martin’s new novel, DOWN TIME, unpacks age-old, universal desires. In his terribly funny book about five friends growing older, Martin tells People that he sought to capture the feeling of being “on the verge of ‘midlife’ in our current era." Preorder DOWN TIME for March 10. bit.ly/415Jhkm

Beyond thrilled to see ENDLING by Maria Reva make the Booker longlist!

Love seeing both "Clam Down" and "Endling" on this list!

On Robert P. Baird’s “The Nimbus: A Tragicomedy Examining the Nature of Belief - Chicago Review of Books If you let the pervasiveness of religion in Robert P. Baird’s debut novel, The Nimbus, scare you away, you’re sure to miss out. Sure, this novel is steeped in theology. It’s set at a Divinity School a...

"In his smart, smooth debut, Baird delivers a tragicomedy that examines the nature of belief...and the limits of human perception."

@marisa-wright.com 's review of “The Nimbus” by Robert P. Baird (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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The Loneliest Time of the Year: On the Memories That Chase You During the Holiday Season The clam never celebrated holidays before she got married. Her parents had worked through all of them—Thanksgiving, Christmas, even Chinese New Year—so when she went to college, she did the same. S…

“She could plaster over her past memories with this new memory in which the territory belonged to her alone.” Anelise Chen looks at the memories that chase us during the holiday season.

It's here!

Congratulations to Ana Raquel Minian! ✨🎉 IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY is the WINNER of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction!

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4iXuG0e

Happy publication day to this brilliant novel!

A rare treat: new fiction from Anelise Chen!

Welcome to Your 2025 In Books Whether you want a harrowing nonfiction epic, a charming fantasy escape, or a suspenseful thriller, our most anticipated reads of 2025 have something for everyone.

So happy to see @joemungoreed.bsky.social on this excellent list! www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Exhibitions of Absurdity In Gretel and the Great War, an antic epistolary novel set in early 20th-century Austria, the writer tries to make sense of a society gone mad.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs has officially earned his own adjective. www.thenation.com/article/cult...