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10 new books to read in July
By Jen Lennon
July 3, 2025 | 10:00am
The best books of 2025 (so far)
By Jen Lennon
June 24, 2025 | 6:00am
5 new comics to read in July, including a
Fantastic Four
MCU tie-in
By Oliver Sava
July 4, 2025 | 10:00am
Sunrise On The Reaping
hits even harder because of its distance from
The Hunger Games
By Jen Lennon
June 10, 2025 | 4:00pm
The A.V. Club
's most anticipated books of summer 2025
By A.V. Club Staff
May 31, 2025 | 8:00am
It's the perfect time to get into
Saga
—even though it's only halfway done
By Samantha Nelson
April 16, 2025 | 3:00pm
French comics anthology
Métal Hurlant
comes screaming back to life in new English edition
By Toussaint Egan
June 17, 2025 | 4:00pm
George R. R. Martin is so very sick of people complaining about
Winds Of Winter
By William Hughes
May 28, 2025 | 9:37pm
The most anticipated books of 2025
By Jen Lennon
January 16, 2025 | 10:00am
10 new books to read in May
By Jen Lennon
May 1, 2025 | 1:00pm
Exclusive
Screaming And Conjuring
book excerpt explores the impact of
28 Days Later
's running zombies
By Jen Lennon
June 18, 2025 | 3:30pm
10 new books you should read in March
By Jen Lennon
February 27, 2025 | 11:00am
John Green’s
Everything Is Tuberculosis
is compelling enough that it should have been longer
By Samantha Nelson
March 18, 2025 | 10:00am
NaNoWriMo to shut down a year after sharing controversial stance on AI
By Emma Keates
April 1, 2025 | 4:16pm
Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach novels burrow into your brain
By Jen Lennon
December 3, 2024 | 10:00am
A Wizard Of Earthsea
graphic novel faithfully captures the magic of Le Guin's world
By Samantha Nelson
March 5, 2025 | 10:00am
5 new comics to read in May, including DC's "Summer Of Superman"
By Oliver Sava
May 2, 2025 | 7:00am
Exclusive
It's (Almost) Always Sunny In Philadelphia
book excerpt reveals how creators sold the show with a VHS
By Jen Lennon
June 25, 2025 | 4:45pm
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer sued over sexual abuse allegations
By Matt Schimkowitz
February 3, 2025 | 6:35pm
Our favorite books of 2024
By A.V. Club Staff
December 20, 2024 | 12:00pm
Read This: The "Romantasy" genre is facing a juicy copyright battle
By Mary Kate Carr
January 6, 2025 | 4:56pm
Department of Defense bans Julianne Moore’s children’s book
Freckleface Strawberry
By Matt Schimkowitz
February 16, 2025 | 5:23pm
R.I.P. Peter David, legendary comics writer who revived
The Incredible Hulk
By Matt Schimkowitz
May 25, 2025 | 6:02pm
The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2021
By Laura Adamczyk, Erin Somers, Bradley Babendir, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Rien Fertel
December 15, 2021 | 6:00am
Queer characters are inspired by the past in the enchanting short stories of
Manywhere
By Grace Byron
January 26, 2022 | 12:00pm
The 15 most essential music bios (and autobiographies) so far this century
By Alex McLevy, David Brusie, Dan Bogosian, Noel Murray, Annie Zaleski, Marty Sartini Garner, Lily Moayeri
April 6, 2022 | 4:00pm
10 books to read in September, including a
Lost
retrospective and a Sally Rooney novel
By Cindy White
August 29, 2024 | 7:00am
Tech start-up and AI publisher Spines wants to release 8000 books in a year
By Mary Kate Carr
November 25, 2024 | 10:18am
Garth Marenghi returns with the final book in TerrorTome trilogy,
This Bursted Earth
By Matt Schimkowitz
March 31, 2025 | 8:59pm
The Employees
is an elusive, creeping, quietly defiant workplace satire
By Laura Adamczyk
March 2, 2022 | 4:00pm
10 books you should read in October
By Cindy White
September 24, 2024 | 3:00am
I Know What You Did Last Summer
lost its empathy in its move to the big screen
By Jen Lennon
October 31, 2024 | 8:00am
Thomas Pynchon's new novel is coming
By Emma Keates
April 9, 2025 | 11:40am
DC's Summer Of Superman takes over comic shelves as the Man Of Steel flies into theaters
By Oliver Sava
May 30, 2025 | 6:00am
Anthropic AI gets legal win with big "but" after it
By Drew Gillis
June 25, 2025 | 12:57pm
July comics preview: an ode to EC Comics and a follow-up to an Eisner Award-winning DC Black Label miniseries
By Oliver Sava
July 1, 2024 | 7:04pm
The latest in book banning: Judy Blume, Margaret Atwood, Sarah J. Maas axed from Utah public schools
By Mary Kate Carr
August 7, 2024 | 1:26pm
Marvel Comics’ stands already feel emptier without Rainbow Rowell’s
She-Hulk
By Anna Govert
August 21, 2024 | 8:00am
Book Club: Kelly Bishop's memoir gives us plenty to chew on (politely, with our mouths closed)
By A.V. Club Staff
September 19, 2024 | 10:00am
6 new comics to read in October, including Batman, Storm, and more
By Oliver Sava
September 25, 2024 | 7:00am
The Handmaid's Tale
sold a ton of copies yesterday for some reason
By Mary Kate Carr
November 7, 2024 | 4:35pm
How DC’s
Absolute
line became the year’s biggest superhero success
By Oliver Sava
November 30, 2024 | 12:00pm
Ram V’s comics highlight the power of human (and superhuman) connection
By Oliver Sava
December 24, 2024 | 12:00pm
Court is now in session for
Saul Goodman V. Jimmy McGill
in exclusive book excerpt
By Jen Lennon
February 4, 2025 | 9:00am
Exclusive
I Am McLovin
book excerpt reveals Bill Hader's costly
Superbad
ad-lib
By Jen Lennon
March 6, 2025 | 4:00pm
10 new books to read in April
By Jen Lennon
March 26, 2025 | 1:00pm
Neil Gaiman sues accuser for $500,000
By Emma Keates
April 21, 2025 | 12:09pm
Jia Tolentino, Kai Bird, and more authors launch yet another AI copyright lawsuit
By Emma Keates
June 25, 2025 | 4:33pm
A wild night of “research” with Robert Downey Jr. and other stories from Andrew McCarthy’s new memoir
By Gwen Ihnat
May 10, 2021 | 3:00pm
R.I.P. Eric Carle, creator of
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By William Hughes
May 26, 2021 | 11:54pm
David Duchovny on writing, revisiting Mulder, and his new movie with Judd Apatow
By Gwen Ihnat
May 29, 2021 | 3:00am
5 new books to read in June
By Laura Adamczyk
June 2, 2021 | 5:00am
Oral history
Changes
is a grounded account of Tupac Shakur’s legendary life
By Mosi Reeves
June 7, 2021 | 11:00am
Cyclopedia Exotica
uses ancient myth to address modern prejudice
By Oliver Sava
June 11, 2021 | 1:00pm
Not even teen Constantine can save
The Mystery Of The Meanest Teacher
from itself
By Caitlin Rosberg
June 15, 2021 | 3:00pm
Tarantino teases more Hollywood hijinks in
Once Upon A Time
novelization trailer
By Matt Schimkowitz
June 21, 2021 | 11:07pm
Barbara Crampton goes inside the mind of a serial killer in an
Our Lady Of The Inferno
exclusive
By Katie Rife
June 22, 2021 | 5:00pm
5 new books to read in July
By Laura Adamczyk, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez
June 29, 2021 | 11:00am
DC Pride
highlights the publisher’s commitment to LGBTQ+ stories
By Oliver Sava
June 29, 2021 | 3:00pm
The best picture books of 2021 so far
By Marah Eakin
July 8, 2021 | 11:00am
The Best Show’
s Tom Scharpling cuts through the crankiness in his hilarious and candid memoir
By William Hughes
July 5, 2021 | 11:00am
With
Wayward
, Dana Spiotta wanders into some clumsy commentary
By Paul Thompson
July 5, 2021 | 1:00pm
The A.V. Club
’s favorite books of 2021 so far
By Laura Adamczyk, Danette Chavez, Rien Fertel, Ashley Naftule
July 8, 2021 | 5:00am
Alone In Space
is a pensive retrospective of Tillie Walden’s early work
By Tiffany Babb
July 14, 2021 | 1:00pm
Grady Hendrix’s
The Final Girl Support Group
is the page-turning slasher of the summer
By Alex McLevy
July 12, 2021 | 11:00am
Danny Trejo details meeting "greasy, dirty, scrawny white boy" Charles Manson in jail
By Tatiana Tenreyro
July 9, 2021 | 3:16pm
Humanity is doomed in Matt Bell’s unrelenting climate change novel,
Appleseed
By Samantha Nelson
July 14, 2021 | 3:00pm
Graphic novel
Bubble
is an ideal summer read
By Caitlin Rosberg
July 13, 2021 | 3:00pm
The Cult Of We
expertly charts the disastrous arc of Adam Neumann’s WeWork
By Bradley Babendir
July 19, 2021 | 1:00pm
What are you reading in July?
By Matt Schimkowitz, Gabrielle Sanchez
July 19, 2021 | 5:00am
Crystal Kingdom
loses some of the shine of
The Adventure Zone
’s earlier graphic novels
By Justin Carter
July 28, 2021 | 11:00am
Andy Serkis, Gollum himself, records new
Lord Of The Rings
audiobook
By Gabrielle Sanchez
July 21, 2021 | 10:09pm
James McAvoy returns for Audible's
The Sandman: Act II
, joined by Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Bill Nighy, and more
By Gabrielle Sanchez
July 22, 2021 | 3:48pm
Cecily Strong’s mournful memoir, a Megan Abbott thriller, and more new books to read in August
By Laura Adamczyk, Saloni Gajjar
July 26, 2021 | 5:00am
The Delicacy
’s dazzling visuals overcome an undercooked story
By Oliver Sava
July 27, 2021 | 1:00pm
Stephen King evokes
John Wick
and pandemic anxiety in the tense, fractured
Billy Summers
By William Hughes
August 2, 2021 | 11:00am
Chinatown
meets climate change in Alexandra Kleeman’s
Something New Under The Sun
By Bradley Babendir
August 3, 2021 | 11:00am
How do we solve a problem like loneliness? In
Seek You
, Kristen Radtke looks for an answer
By Laura Adamczyk
August 2, 2021 | 3:00pm
Twitter falls for a fake Cormac McCarthy account, again
By Gabrielle Sanchez
August 2, 2021 | 8:03pm
Dolly Parton has co-authored a novel with James Patterson
By Gabrielle Sanchez
August 11, 2021 | 9:23pm
Four new hard-hitting crime novels to get you through the end of summer
By Saloni Gajjar
August 23, 2021 | 5:00am
A new Sally Rooney, Joy Williams’ first novel in 20 years, and more books to read this September
By Laura Adamczyk, William Hughes, Danette Chavez
August 24, 2021 | 11:00am
Moon Knight
complicates the brutal vigilante’s spiritual conflict
By Oliver Sava
August 25, 2021 | 5:00pm
Beautiful World, Where Are You
is Sally Rooney’s best novel yet
By Rien Fertel
September 7, 2021 | 5:00am
Maggie Nelson wades into the discourse’s murky middle in
On Freedom
By Laura Adamczyk
September 8, 2021 | 3:49pm
Colson Whitehead thrives in the moral grays of
Harlem Shuffle
By Danette Chavez
September 13, 2021 | 6:27pm
Joy Williams’
Harrow
is a strange, comic novel for the end of the world
By Laura Adamczyk
September 15, 2021 | 3:30pm
The system is the monster in Naomi Novik’s engaging
The Last Graduate
By William Hughes
September 27, 2021 | 3:00pm
America’s racist past (and present) haunts Percival Everett’s thrilling, absurdist
The Trees
By Isaías Rogel
September 21, 2021 | 4:00pm
A new Franzen novel, a Sebald biography, and more books to read in October
By Laura Adamczyk
September 29, 2021 | 5:00am
A novelist recalls his suicide attempt in the ruminative
One Friday In April
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 11, 2021 | 3:00pm
The cascading fears of
Razorblades: The Horror Magazine
are scary good
By M.L. Kejera
October 6, 2021 | 3:00pm
Hideo Kojima’s
The Creative Gene
is a heartfelt tribute to pop culture
By Sam Barsanti
October 12, 2021 | 11:00am
Artie And The Wolf Moon
has plenty of warmth but needs more chills
By Oliver Sava
October 19, 2021 | 3:00pm
To sell out or not to sell out? A new book traces the punk boom of the ’90s and ’00s
By Alex McLevy
October 26, 2021 | 7:40pm
Mel Brooks’ memoir, an in-depth history of HBO, and more books to read in November
By Laura Adamczyk
October 27, 2021 | 1:00pm
How bookstores are adjusting to supply-chain problems this holiday season
By Laura Adamczyk
November 2, 2021 | 3:00pm
Supernatural thriller
The Perishing
is a luminous love letter to Los Angeles
By Adam Morgan
November 9, 2021 | 12:00pm
It’s nature vs. technology in Nnedi Okorafor’s fast-paced novel
Noor
By Gabrielle Sanchez
November 15, 2021 | 4:00pm
No One Else
sparks an emotional fire with subtlety and grace
By Oliver Sava
November 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
HBO oral history
Tinderbox
offers little more than amusing anecdotes
By Bradley Babendir
November 23, 2021 | 2:00pm
All the best stories, trivia, and tidbits from Mel Brooks’ memoir,
All About Me!
By Rien Fertel
November 29, 2021 | 4:00pm
The 13 best books to buy pop-culture lovers this Christmas
By Marah Eakin
November 25, 2021 | 12:00pm
The 15 best book covers of 2021
By Laura Adamczyk and Natalie Peeples
December 2, 2021 | 6:00am
A new novel from Hanya Yanagihara, an Elephant 6 oral history, and more books to read in January
By Laura Adamczyk
December 28, 2021 | 12:00pm
The 15 most-anticipated books of 2022
By Laura Adamczyk, Adam Morgan, Ines Bellina, Bradley Babendir
January 4, 2022 | 6:00am
Camera Man
chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Buster Keaton
By Rien Fertel
January 24, 2022 | 2:00pm
The best comics of 2021
By Justin Carter, M.L. Kejera, Caitlin Rosberg, Oliver Sava
January 14, 2022 | 5:00pm