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10 Essential Scary Books by Women
Terrifying tales by Dorothy B. Hughes, Muriel Spark, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 11, 2019
This week: big novels from Christopher Castellani, Lauren Wilkinson, and Valeria Luiselli.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 4, 2019
This week: the shock of global population decline, plus a novel narrated by God.
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The Most Anticipated Children's and YA Books of Spring 2019
A selection of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 28, 2019
This week: Maurice Carlos Ruffin's stellar debut novel, plus a surreal political thriller in which assassination is a business “driven by market forces.”
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The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019
The big books of the season.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 21, 2019
This week: a Kafkaesque suburban horror story, plus Stephanie Land's memoir about the struggles she faced as a young single mother living in poverty.
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The 10 Most Anticipated Book-to-Film Adaptations of 2019
'The Goldfinch,' 'Little Women,' and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 14, 2019
This week: new books from Charlie Jane Anders, Dani Shapiro, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 7, 2019
This week: how to date men when you hate men, plus Samanta Schweblin's frightening story collection.
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The Most-Read Book Reviews of 2018
We review more than 8,000 books per year, and these were the 10 most-read reviews of books published in 2018.
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PW Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2018
Though we've named our best books of 2017, we all have our personal favorites, and not all of them are from 2017. These are the best books we read this year.
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PW's Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2018
We asked the authors of our top 10 books of 2018 to share their favorite titles published this year.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 10, 2018
This week: the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize, plus Yan Lianke's satiric, chilling take on China’s policy of forced cremation.
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Edith Thompson: The Innocent Woman Who Was Executed in Part Because of Her Writing Talent
"Had she had not written as she did, would her lover have killed her husband? Almost certainly the answer is no."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 3, 2018
This week: around the world in 20 languages, plus the love-hate relationship between L.A. and its inhabitants.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, November 19, 2018
This week: Amparo Dávila's creepy story collection, plus the lies women tell about sex—and the truths they reveal.
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Bartering with the Facts: How a Novelist Solves a Historical Problem
Samantha Harvey's novel 'The Western Wind' is set in 1491 in England. She needed for there to be a private confession box; her plot hinged on it. One problem: private confession boxes didn't exist. Here's how she solved the puzzle.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, November 12, 2018
This week: Gina Apostol's masterpiece, plus Jonathan Franzen's newest.
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On Patriarchy and the Novel
"I didn’t set out to write a novel about patriarchy."