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13 Essential Pandemic Novels
Writing recently in The New Yorker, Jill Lepore noted that reading itself in an infection. "But, then," she writes, "the existence of books, no matter how grim the tale, is itself a sign, evidence that humanity endures." We're inclined to agree. So what literary contagions have remained with us? Here are 13 of our favorites.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Apr. 6, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from David Carr, Kathryn Scanlan, and Victoria Chang.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Mar. 30, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from Bart D. Ehrman, Michelle Major, and Joseph O’Connor.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Mar. 23, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from Emily St. John Mandel, Susan Nordin Vinocour, and Nghi Vo.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Mar. 16, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from Jane Hirshfield, T.J. Klune, S.A. Jones, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Mar. 9, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from Kevin Nguyen, Kathy Reichs, Max Allan Collins and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Mar. 2, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from William Boyle, James McBride, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Feb. 24, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from Colum McCann, Ross Douthat, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Feb. 16, 2020
This week, we highlight new books from Graham Moore, Natasha Pulley, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Feb. 9, 2020
This week, we highlight the latest novel from Jenny Offill; a shimmering collection from Major Jackson; and more.
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The Most Anticipated Children's and YA Books of Spring 2020
A selection of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season.
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The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020
The big books of the season.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Feb. 2, 2020
This week, we highlight an insightful group memoir about the work of Toni Morrison; a wonderful debut novel from Amy Bonnaffons; a dazzling neo-western adventure from Sarah Gailey; and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 26, 2020
This week, we highlight a stunning crime novel from Christopher Bollen; an impressionistic memoir of growing up as an undocumented immigrant by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo; and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 19, 2020
This week, we highlight a majestic novel from Isabel Allende, a collection of occult detective stories, a book of essays commemorating the ACLU’s centennial, and more.
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PW Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2019
Though we've named our best books of 2019, we all have our personal favorites, and not all of them are from 2019. These are the best books we read this year.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 12, 2020
This week, we highlight a powerful and unsettling debut by Ani Katz; a cleverly crafted memoir by Javier Cercas; a tangled, riveting parable of the modern surveillance state by Joanna Kavenna; and more
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 5, 2020
This week, we highlight a writing guide from Chuck Palahniuk; a candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity from Peggy Orenstein; a ruminative, endlessly clever book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Hass; and a whole lot more.
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The Most-Read Book Reviews of 2019
Of the thousands of book reviews we published this year, these are the 10 most-read reviews of books that published in 2019.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Dec. 8, 2019
This week, we highlight an unusual, bittersweet coming-of-age novel from Saskia Sarginson; the second installment in Suzanne M. Wolfe's An Elizabethan Spy Mystery series, a contemporary romance from Colleen Hoover; an impressive and formally versatile poetry debut from Patrick Johnson, and a whole lot more.