Book Recommendations
The Atlantic recommends books to read, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, and more.
The Atlantic recommends books to read, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, and more.
These writers go beyond the realm of standard guidebooks to offer generous insight and reassurance.
Dwellings are loaded with meaning for the people—and characters—who inhabit them.
These titles are challenging where others are pandering, and open-minded where others are prescriptive.
Reading may not be a salve for loneliness, but there’s nothing like the rush of being seen by literature.
On recipes, spontaneity, and time: Your weekly guide to the best in books
These novels are lengthy, but they lavishly reward the time and effort you pour into them.
The books that made us think the most this year
These titles do more than answer questions: They explain how the world moves and what moves it.
Government scrutiny isn’t how it appears in 1984. To understand privacy, we’ll need to update our analogies.
The Atlantic’s writers have chosen books to help you understand the stakes of the midterms.
Reading alone can’t take away the pain, but prose can be part of one’s internal healing.
The unique feeling of sharing parents, or of growing up together, makes this relationship unlike any other.
These books may be brief, but they use their limited word count to demonstrate the power of concision.
A reading list of works by perennial favorites, including this year's awardee, Annie Ernaux
One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner.
Because music is uniquely tied up with memory, the best writing about it inevitably gets personal.
These titles are genuinely insightful about the pain of heartbreak, but affirm that love remains worth pursuing.
Front matter by well-known contemporary authors offers new insights into notable works from the past—and heralds the foreword’s rise as its own exciting literary form.
How can we manage to pass along anything other than rage and despair in turbulent times?
Unchanging environments are a useful narrative tool to show readers just how much a protagonist has grown.