Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Helping liberals get out of their own way. Klein, a New York Times columnist, and Thompson, an Atlantic staffer, lean to the left, but they aren’t interrogating the usual suspects.Aware that many ...

A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America’s greatest writer. It makes sense that distinguished biographer Chernow (Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton) has ...

Torok presents a beginner’s guide to an alternative energy-healing therapy and its potential health benefits. The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Mysterious small-town lore haunts an ailing teen’s relocation to the mountains. Lola Boyd is devastated to leave her small Michigan hometown as well as her best friend, Bryn, who’s nonbinary, for a ...

All the reasons why a daughter needs a mother. Each spread features an adorable cartoon animal parent-child pair on the recto opposite a rhyming verse: “I’ll always support you in giving your all / in ...

Like That Eleanor THE AMAZING POWER OF BEING AN ALLY. by Lee Wind ; illustrated by Kelly Mangan ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 3, 2025 An ideal guide for readers of any age to learn how to be an ally—“one way ...