Book Recommendations
The Atlantic recommends books to read, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, and more.
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Matt Chase History Is Never Only One Person’s Story
A good group biography details with curiosity the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another.
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Getty The Books Swallowed by the Black Hole of the Coronavirus
Some spectacular titles had the terrible luck of being released in early 2020. They still deserve our attention.
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Ina Jang The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health
Nine books that helped me reframe my relationship to viruses, the most abundant biological entity on Earth
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George Marks / Retrofile / Getty; The Atlantic The Books That Taught a Debate Champion How to Argue
Through reading, I learned that disagreement can be a source of good, not ill, even in our polarized age.
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As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction
Planetary warming is no longer the sole province of “climate fiction.” It’s creeping into all kinds of writing.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic And How Do These Books Make You Feel?
These seven books analyze what really happens between therapist and patient.
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The Atlantic How to Make Change, Slowly
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.
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Guillem Casasus Nine Books That Came to Fame Slowly
Translation allowed these works to become popular all over again in English.
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Sebastian König Whatever You Write, There You Are
These nine nonfiction authors set out to investigate the outside world and ended up finding themselves.
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Vasya Kolotusha The 12 Most Unforgettable Descriptions of Food in Literature
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.
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic Five Books in Which Romance Sneaks Up on You
All kinds of novels can contain love—and the pleasure of encountering a good one that does is universal.
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The Atlantic; PublicAffairs; Riverhead Books; Penguin; Melville House; … Nine Books to Read to Understand the War in Ukraine
These books—memoir, fiction, and nonfiction—offer a glimpse into a century of historical context in Eastern Europe.
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Getty; The Atlantic Eight Books That Reevaluate American History
In these recent works, Black innovations and labor receive the prominence they deserve in popular narratives.
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Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress Eight Books That Explain the South
The southern travelogue is a genre with a long history. These examples helped me write my own.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock Feeling Bad? Read These Books to Feel Better.
Wallowing in our worst moods can be enthralling, and even educational.
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Julien Magre / Gallery Stock 15 Books You Won’t Regret Rereading
Years after these titles were popular, they’re still worth picking up.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Eight Books to Read This Winter
Our writers and editors share recommendations to bring you comfort, meaning, delight, or distraction—or a mix of all four!—this season.
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Kirn Vintage Stock / Corbis / Getty Eight Ghost Stories in Which the Dead Won’t Go Quietly
Literature has a long tradition of using the genre to address unsettled pasts and forgotten traumas.
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Five of the Best Books of 2021
The novels, nonfiction, and memoirs that stood out most: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Maria Chimishkyan The 20 Best Books of 2021
The novels, nonfiction, and memoirs that stood out most
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