Book Recommendations
The Atlantic recommends books to read, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, and more.
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Eve Arnold / Magnum What to Read When You’re Expecting
These writers go beyond the realm of standard guidebooks to offer generous insight and reassurance.
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Rose Wong Seven Books About How Homes Shape Our Life
Dwellings are loaded with meaning for the people—and characters—who inhabit them.
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Mark Pernice Eight Self-Help Books That Actually Help
These titles are challenging where others are pandering, and open-minded where others are prescriptive.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Eight Books to Comfort You When You’re Lonely
Reading may not be a salve for loneliness, but there’s nothing like the rush of being seen by literature.
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Marie Suchodolski / Hans Lucas / Redux What’s Wrong With Following a Recipe?
On recipes, spontaneity, and time: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Six Classic Books That Live Up to Their Reputation
These novels are lengthy, but they lavishly reward the time and effort you pour into them.
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Julia Schimautz The Atlantic 10
The books that made us think the most this year
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Getty; The Atlantic Seven Books That Will Make You Smarter
These titles do more than answer questions: They explain how the world moves and what moves it.
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Getty; The Atlantic Science Fiction Got Surveillance All Wrong
Government scrutiny isn’t how it appears in 1984. To understand privacy, we’ll need to update our analogies.
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Stock Montage / Getty What’s the One Book That Explains American Politics Today?
The Atlantic’s writers have chosen books to help you understand the stakes of the midterms.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Seven Books That Understand Your Grief
Reading alone can’t take away the pain, but prose can be part of one’s internal healing.
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Yannick Schuette / Connected Archives Six Books That Show No One Can Hurt You Like a Sibling
The unique feeling of sharing parents, or of growing up together, makes this relationship unlike any other.
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Ionut Vancea You Can Read Any of These Short Novels in a Weekend
These books may be brief, but they use their limited word count to demonstrate the power of concision.
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Getty; The Atlantic Five Authors We Thought Might Win the Nobel—Including One Who Did
A reading list of works by perennial favorites, including this year's awardee, Annie Ernaux
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic The Books We Read Too Late—And That You Should Read Now
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.
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Getty / The Atlantic Six Books That Music Lovers Should Read
Because music is uniquely tied up with memory, the best writing about it inevitably gets personal.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty; Alamy The Best Books for a Broken Heart
These titles are genuinely insightful about the pain of heartbreak, but affirm that love remains worth pursuing.
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Matt Chase Six Introductions That Will Change How You Read These Classics
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.
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Obie Oberholzer / Redux The Books That Help Me Raise Children in a Broken World
How can we manage to pass along anything other than rage and despair in turbulent times?
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Getty; Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic Seven Books Where the Setting Exposes the Characters
Unchanging environments are a useful narrative tool to show readers just how much a protagonist has grown.
