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.
A good group biography details with curiosity the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another.
Some spectacular titles had the terrible luck of being released in early 2020. They still deserve our attention.
Nine books that helped me reframe my relationship to viruses, the most abundant biological entity on Earth
Through reading, I learned that disagreement can be a source of good, not ill, even in our polarized age.
Planetary warming is no longer the sole province of “climate fiction.” It’s creeping into all kinds of writing.
These seven books analyze what really happens between therapist and patient.
Making a difference is not just about charismatic leaders and huge protests. As these books show, social and political shifts are usually the result of sustained, unseen work.
Translation allowed these works to become popular all over again in English.
These nine nonfiction authors set out to investigate the outside world and ended up finding themselves.
Haruki Murakami’s stir fry, Maurice Sendak’s chicken soup with rice—only the most gifted writers have made meals on the page worth remembering.
All kinds of novels can contain love—and the pleasure of encountering a good one that does is universal.
These books—memoir, fiction, and nonfiction—offer a glimpse into a century of historical context in Eastern Europe.
In these recent works, Black innovations and labor receive the prominence they deserve in popular narratives.
The southern travelogue is a genre with a long history. These examples helped me write my own.
Wallowing in our worst moods can be enthralling, and even educational.
Years after these titles were popular, they’re still worth picking up.
Our writers and editors share recommendations to bring you comfort, meaning, delight, or distraction—or a mix of all four!—this season.
Literature has a long tradition of using the genre to address unsettled pasts and forgotten traumas.
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