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

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with ...

Our critic says Regina Black’s “August Lane” is the best book she’s read this year. Credit...Michela Buttignol Supported by By Olivia Waite Olivia Waite, the Book Review’s romance fiction columnist, ...

In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it. By MJ ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

The days are getting shorter, and Halloween is right around the corner. This November, the days are getting longer, and it is getting cold outside in most of the Western world. Several new e-books and ...

In this prodigiously researched epic, Torigian details the life of Xi Zhongxun—the father of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping—to explain the history of the Chinese Communist Party. Along the way, ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...