‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year. So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader.

The best way to fight doomscrolling in 2025? Getting off your phone and picking up a book. Luckily for us, there were plenty of un-put-down-able reads this year. Whether your genre of choice is ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Science From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of ...

Cutebee book nooks offer a more storybook style, which I like. The Amazing Toys Store kit gives Pleasure Island vibes from Pinocchio, while the Darkness Common Room is surely inspired by the Slytherin ...

It was another incredible year in reading. Here are our favorite 20 books—including memoirs, buzzy literary fiction, and captivating histories—of 2025. Susan Choi’s engrossing new novel begins with a ...

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 ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There are 49 books in front of me, stacked like colorful bricks in a wall. These are the 49 books I didn’t include in the Chicago Tribune’s 10 Best Books of ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

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 ...