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4 Must-Read Books to Devour This August
Lizzie Borden reimagined, Hollywood reexamined, and family tales of the heart.
Danzy Senna's New People Explores Race, Love, and Gentrification
The Caucasia author returns to her home ground: the personal and political dynamics of race.
3 Must-Read Titles For Your June Book Club
This month: Falling for a teacher, in thrall to a Svengali, and a trans-formative memoir.
Do Not Become Alarmed Is a Kidnap Thriller That Will Keep You Up at Night
Our advice: Don't read Maile Meloy's new novel of class, race, and disappeared children after dark.
5 Must-Read Books for Your May Book Club
This month: priests and nuns, radical writers and lovers.
Kristen Radtke's Graphic Memoir Is a Love Letter to Abandoned Places
A story told with maps, photographs, medical charts, newspaper clippings, and a Sharpie.
7 Great Books to Read in April
A Marilyn bio, a Grace Paley reader, scenes from a marriage, and more.
In Celine, an Aristocratic PI Follows a Taut, Twisting Mystery
Peter Heller's new literary suspense novel stars one of the year's most unforgettable characters.
4 Books to Read This March
This month: Swinging, swinging from the chandeliers, and elegant historical fiction.
4 Must-Read Books for Your February Book Club
A taut separation, a master of short stories, and a new feminist manifesto.
Sex, Money, and Yoga: What's Really Happening in Silicon Valley?
Alexandra Wolfe's new book is a racy report from the high-tech playground.
30 Days of LSD: One Woman's Life-Changing Mental Health Experiment
How microdosing cured what ailed author Ayelet Waldman.
The 4 Books You Need to Read This January
Curl up with some naughtily narrated A-list gossip and high-wire drama.
A Coming-of-Age/Ghost Story From One of Japan's Most Beloved Novelists
A beautiful translation of Banana Yoshimoto's latest brings a light touch to existentially tough subject matter.
6 Books You Need to Read This December
Sexual mores in modern India, murder, mystery, and Christmas dinner.
A Posthumous Story Collection From Black Film Pioneer Kathleen Collins
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love is a sly, important collection about black women's lives.
Read the Riches-to-Rags Novel That Has the Literati Buzzing
Jade Chang's debut, 'The Wangs vs. the World,' turns the immigrant-made-good story upside down.
7 Books to Read This October
In love with Shakespeare, what chefs ink, what writers think, and more...
Why Do We Love to Call Women Trainwrecks?
Sady Doyle's brilliant book attacks the sexist narrative.
6 Must-Reads for Your September Book Club
Plus one book that's a lot of fun just to look at....
3 Must-Reads for Your August Book Club
Jacqueline Woodson returns with her first novel for adults in two decades.
Dave Eggers's New Novel is a Mark Twain-like Tale of American Folly
A struggling mother sets out for the wilds of Alaska with her two young children.
3 Must-Reads For Your July Book Club
The crescendo of the '60s, growing up in the Chelsea Hotel, and debut fiction from a Vice editor.
David Hepworth Revisits the "Most Creative, Most Innovative" Year in Rock Music
That's 1971, in case you were wondering—the year everything changed.
3 Must-Reads for Your June Book Club
Dispatches from Syria, Herman Melville's love affairs, and 80s short fiction.
Splashy Debut Novel Captures New York City From Inside Its Restaurant Scene
Stephanie Danler turns her past as a server into a promising first book.
3 Books for Your May 2016 Book Club
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ELLE Recommends: 3 Books to Read This April
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'On Being' Host Krista Tippett Has a New Memoir About "Listening for a Living"
"Tough-minded spirituality is important to me."
3 Must-Read Titles for Your March Book Club
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'Innocents and Others' Is a 'Thelma & Louise'-esque Must Read
Dana Spiotta's new novel is a tale of two women filmmakers who go for it, get it…and pay a price for it, too.
Jhumpa Lahiri Says Her New Memoir Is Her "Most Intimate Book"
Yet again, words transform Jhumpa Lahiri's world in 'In Other Words'.
