Book Recommendations
The Atlantic recommends books to read, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, and more.
The Atlantic recommends books to read, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, and more.
The Atlantic’s books editor prescribes these titles as antidotes to the quick and dirty ways people are communicating on social media.
Our writers and editors share one title that granted them a fresh perspective.
These titles demand a clear-eyed look at things people too often take for granted.
The following six titles are correctives to isolation.
In writing, matrimony can prompt questions about freedom, desire, and identity.
These titles self-consciously aim to grab their reader’s attention.
The Atlantic’s writers and editors recommend titles to match some warm-weather moods.
These books may tempt you to take up a new pursuit and enlarge your sense of your own capabilities.
These essay and short-story collections are easy to read at your own pace.
These books offer a wide set of perspectives on what kinship can be, and on the endless ways we might create it.
Serious literature is better when it’s funny.
Literature, rife with tales of ambition or slackerdom, can be well-equipped to answer questions about the costs and benefits of striving.
These titles represent an eclectic mix of various styles and moods, but any one of them will be exactly right if you want a brainteaser.
If you’re in search of a boost or motivation to change your life, these seven books may help.
A strong title can do more than entertain—it can also provoke, challenge, educate, or soothe.
A tell-all is worth picking up when the star has an honest, grounded perspective on their life.
Despite their initial mixed reviews, each of these titles is fascinating, complicated, and worth a try.
These titles conjure their settings so vividly that you’ll feel as if you’re there.
Here is the verse that we just can’t get out of our heads.
Sometimes, a writer can use more than their own recollections to tell a personal story.