All Episodes

Tom Lin, "Babylon, South Dakota" (Little Brown and Co, 2026)

Téa Obreht, "Sunrise" (Random House, 2026)

Paul Yoon, "Etna" (Scribner, 2026)

Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)

Seamus O’Reilly, "Prestige Drama" (Cardinal, 2026)

Emily McBride, "Queen Mab" (FSG, 2026)

Julie Buntin, "Famous Men" (Random House, 2026)

Andrew Martin, "Down Time" (FSG, 2026)

Ysabelle Cheung, "Patchwork Dolls" (Blair, 2026)

Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7: A Novel" (Graywolf Press 2026)

Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)

Paige Lewis, "Canon" (Viking, 2026)

Sarah Jean Grimm, "Hog Lagoon" (blush, 2023) and "Soft Focus" (Metatron, 2017)

Lisa Lee, "American Han" (Algonquin Books, 2026)

Namwali Serpell, "On Morrison" (Hogarth, 2026)

Daniel Poppick, "The Copywriter" (Scribner, 2026)

Alice Martin, "Westward Women" (St. Martins Press, 2026)

Joe Mungo Reed, "Terrestrial History" (Norton, 2025)

Ann Packer, "Some Bright Nowhere" (Harper Books, 2026)

Gabriel Tallent, "Crux" (Riverhead Books, 2025)

Jenny Mustard, "What a Time to Be Alive" (Pegasus Books, 2025)

Iida Turpeinen, "Beasts of the Sea" (Little, Brown, 2025)

Ben Ratliff, "Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening" (Graywolf Press, 2025)

The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)

Booksellers Best of 2025

Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)

Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)

Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025)

Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)

Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)

Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

Marcy Dermansky, "Hot Air" (Knopf, 2025)

Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)

Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025)

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, "Mutual Interest" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Yiming Ma, "These Memories Do Not Belong To Us" (Mariner Books, 2025)

Emily Adrian, "Seduction Theory" (Little, Brown, 2025)

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, "The Sisters" (FSG, 2025)

Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)

Nell Stevens, "The Original" (Norton, 2025)

Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)

Amy Stuber, "Sad Grownups" (Stillhouse Press, 2024)

Jesse Browner, "Sing to Me" (Little Brown, 2025)

Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)

Kate Folk, "Sky Daddy: A Novel" (Random House, 2025)

Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)

Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)

Emily Everett, "All That Life Can Afford" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)

Andrew Porter, "The Imagined Life: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)

Betsy Lerner, "Shred Sisters" (Grove Press, 2024)

Colum McCann, "Twist" (Random House, 2025)

Lauren Elkin, "Scaffolding" (FSG, 2024)

Emma Pattee, "Tilt" (Marysue Rucci Books, 2025)

Joseph Earl Thomas, "God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)

Nora Lange, "Us Fools" (Two Dollar Radio, 2024)

Cynthia Weiner, "A Gorgeous Excitement" (Crown, 2025)

Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)

Rufi Thorpe, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (William Morrow, 2024)

"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"

Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)

Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)

Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)

Booksellers’ Best 2024

Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)

Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)

Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)

Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)

Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Like Happiness" (Celadon Books, 2024)

S J. Naudé, "Fathers and Fugitives" (Europa, 2024)

Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)

Mary Jones, "The Goodbye Process" (Zibby Books, 2024)

Kaliane Bradley, "The Ministry of Time" (Avid Reader Press, 2024)

Chelsea Bieker, "Madwoman" (Little, Brown, 2024)

C. Michelle Lindley, "The Nude" (Atria Books, 2024)

Jessica Anthony, "The Most" (Little, Brown, 2024)

Cally Fiedorek, "Atta Boy" (U Iowa Press, 2024)

Megan Nolan, "Ordinary Human Failings" (Little, Brown, 2024)

Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)

Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023)

Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024)

Rachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024)

Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)

Jennine Capó Crucet, "Say Hello to My Little Friend" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)

Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024)

Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)

Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)

Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)

Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)

Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)

Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)

Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)

Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)

Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)

Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)

Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)

Booksellers' Best Books of 2023

Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)

Julie Schumacher, "The English Experience" (Doubleday, 2023)

Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)

Laura Sims, "How Can I Help You" (Putnam, 2023)

Mina Seçkin, "The Four Humors" (Catapult, 2022)

Angie Kim, "Happiness Falls" (Hogarth Press, 2023)

Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)

Caroline O'Donoghue, "The Rachel Incident" (Knopf, 2023)

Hilary Leichter, "Terrace Story" (Ecco, 2023)

John Fulton, "The Flounder: Stories" (Blackwater Press, 2023)

Katherine Heiny, "Games and Rituals: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)

Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)

Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Kate Doyle, "I Meant It Once" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

Ruth Madievsky, "All-Night Pharmacy" (Catapult, 2023)

Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)

Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)

Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)

Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)

Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)

Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)

Eirinie Carson, "The Dead are Gods" (Melville House, 2023)

Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)

Rebecca Makkai, "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking, 2023)

Rasheed Newson, "My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel" (Flatiron Books, 2023)

Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)

Julia Langbein, "American Mermaid" (Doubleday, 2023)

Kashana Cauley, "The Survivalists: A Novel" (Soft Skull Press, 2023)

Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)

Deepti Kapoor, "Age of Vice" (Riverhead Books, 2023)

Daisy Alpert Florin, "My Last Innocent Year" (Henry Holt, 2023)

Christopher M. Hood, "The Revivalists" (Harper, 2022)

Sanaë Lemoine, "The Margot Affair" (Hogarth, 2021)

Matthew Salesses, "The Sense of Wonder" (Little, Brown, 2023)

Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)

Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)

Booksellers' Best of 2022

Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)

Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)

Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)

Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)

Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)

Amy Fusselman, "The Means" (Mariner Books, 2022)

Lynn Steger Strong, "Flight" (Mariner Books, 2022)

Kayla Maiuri, "Mother In the Dark: A Novel" (Riverhead Books, 2022)

Kevin Wilson, "Now Is Not the Time to Panic" (Ecco Press, 2022)

Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)

Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)

Tess Gunty, "The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel" (Knopf, 2022)

Andrea Barrett, "Natural History: Stories" (Norton, 2022)

Chelsea Martin, "Tell Me I'm An Artist" (Soft Skull Press, 2022)

A. M. Homes, "The Unfolding" (Viking, 2022)

Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)

Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown, 2022)

Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2021)

Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, 2022)

Sarah Thankam Mathews, "All This Could Be Different" (Viking, 2022)

Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)

Julia May Jonas, "Vladimir: A Novel" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

Mohsin Hamid, "The Last White Man" (Riverhead, 2022)

Alice Elliott Dark, "Fellowship Point: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)

Rachel Krantz, "Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy" (Harmony, 2022)

Rebecca van Laer, "How to Adjust to the Dark" (Long Day, 2022) & Shannon McLeod, "Whimsy" (Long Day, 2021)

Julia Glass, "Vigil Harbor" (Pantheon, 2022)

Elisabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)

Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)

Marcy Dermansky, "Hurricane Girl" (Knopf, 2022)

Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)

Elif Batuman, "Either/Or" (Penguin, 2022)

Grant Ginder, "Let's Not Do That Again" (Henry Holt, 2022)

Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)

Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)

Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)

Caitlin Barasch, "A Novel Obsession" (Dutton Book, 2022)

Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)

Jessamine Chan, "The School for Good Mothers: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)

Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, "Anonymous Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)

Andrew Lipstein, "Last Resort" (FSG, 2022)

Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)

Joanna Rakoff, "My Salinger Year" (Vintage, 2014)

Percival Everett, "The Trees: A Novel" (Graywolf Press, 2021)

Cara Blue Adams, "You Never Get It Back" (U Iowa Press, 2021)

Kalani Pickhart, "I Will Die in a Foreign Land" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)

Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition

Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021)

Pola Oloixarac, "Mona" (Picador, 2021)

Karina Lickorish Quinn, "The Dust Never Settles" (One World, 2021)

Alexandra Kleeman, "Something New Under the Sun" (Hogarth, 2021)

Clare Sestanovich, "Objects of Desire" (Knopf, 2021)

Dana Spiotta, "Wayward" (Knopf, 2021)

Eleanor Henderson, "Everything I Have is Yours" (Flatiron, 2021)

Katie Kitamura, "Intimacies" (Riverhead, 2021)

Brian Hall, "The Stone Loves the World" (Penguin Random House, 2021)

Hermione Hoby, "Virtue" (Penguin Random House, 2021)

Rebecca Makkai, "The Great Believers" (Penguin Random House, 2018)

Jack Wang, "We Two Alone" (HarperCollins, 2021)

Rumaan Alam, "Leave the World Behind" (Ecco, 2021)

Miranda Popkey, "Topics of Conversation" (Knopf, 2020)

Gina Nutt, "Night Rooms" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)

Lauren Oyler, "Fake Accounts" (Catapult, 2021)

Ellie Eaton, "The Divines" (William Morrow, 2021)

Valzhyna Mort, "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" (Macmillan, 2020)

Fascism and its Afterlives: An Interview with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Carl Fischer

Edan Lepucki, "Woman No. 17" (Penguin Random House, 2017)

Kevin Wilson, "Nothing to See Here" (HarperCollins, 2020)

Bob Proehl, "The Nobody People" (Penguin Random House, 2020)

Alexandra Chang, "Days of Distraction" (HarperCollins, 2020)

The Last Bookstore, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY

Eleanor Henderson, "The Twelve-Mile Straight" (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017)