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On the Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: From AI thrillers to found-family favorites, 2025 gave us stories that hit hard. USA TODAY Books Reporter Clare Mulroy joins The Excerpt ...

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Reading is a paradoxical act. We usually do it alone, but the words we read can profoundly connect us with other people. Books offer both a chance to escape from reality, and the tools required to ...

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The end of the year means holiday celebrations, summer breaks … and for us, one important thing: best books lists. We asked 35 expert readers for their favourite picks, ranging from novelists to ...

Last week we published our annual list of 100 Notable Books; today, we winnow that list to the 10 Best Books of 2025. And now, we’re ready to discuss them. In this week’s episode, the Book Review ...

Books can be a refuge from (waves arms) all this, even when they take you deeper into the darkness of 2025. There is a grace in the relationship between book and reader, with nothing but your eyes and ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

This annual list presents top business books from the past year, selected for sparking new ideas and aiding navigation in an evolving world. The unranked collection covers diverse themes, from ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

In this prodigiously researched epic, Torigian details the life of Xi Zhongxun—the father of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping—to explain the history of the Chinese Communist Party. Along the way, ...