Book Recommendations | The Center for Fiction

What You Read in 2025

Our annual bestsellers list closes out this year’s recommendations with fifteen titles reflecting a wide range of reading tastes—from new...

Here is a selection of gift-y books for the holidays, including new and old classics: boxed sets of favorite authors in editions anyone would...

This week, our Bookstore’s Inventory Manager, Leah Bronstein, shares some of her favorite 2025 books for young readers—spanning board...

We begin to wind down the year with some excellent late-season publications to be added to your TBR pile or gifted for the holidays

‘Tis the season to cook and bake. This fall has a particularly splendid crop of new cookbooks, and we’ve selected eight to highlight

Four taut novels will keep you on the edge of your seat, plus a posthumous memoir from a favorite rock star. We have a spy story set in the ’60s...

This week’s grouping features a multigenerational slate of authors, ranging from their 20s to their 80s—one debut showing remarkable promise...

As the brisk weather has arrived and the days grow shorter, this collection of novels runs both hot and cold—not only in their settings but...

Four works of fiction are marked by their authors’ uncanny abilities to dig into the minds of their characters. We find ourselves thrown into...

Horror in Utah; time travel in the Swiss mountains; escape into solitude in Ireland; and escapist fiction about a New England family mark the...