@bookriot.bsky.social's most anticipated books of 2026 include LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and COOL MACHINE by @colsonwhitehead.com - bookriot.com/listen/our-m...

“Fingers crossed she isn’t racist — it was a different time,” says the author of CURSED DAUGHTERS. Read Braithwaite's By The Book via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/b...

The New York Post names DREAM STATE by Eric Puchner as one of "The 30 Best Books of 2025." "Bonds are broken and sometimes healed, though nothing — including the warming Montana environment — is left unchanged." nypost.com/2025/12/27/e...

KING OF KINGS by Scott Anderson makes @publisherswkly.bsky.social's best nonfiction of 2025 list: bookshop.org/lists/the-be...

You *know* CURSED DAUGHTERS in one the list: www.theroot.com/favorite-boo...

“Hess accepts that we are all, now, dwellers in ‘the digital age,’ and she navigates that landscape with humor and nuance.” @newrepublic.com names SECOND LIFE by @amandahess.bsky.social one of the best books of the year newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Most anticipated of 2026 from @debutiful.bsky.social includes SPOILED MILK and IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN: debutiful.net/2025/12/16/t...

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

“Playing into his 40s, it’s something unparalleled... I’ve never seen anything like it.” @yaronweitzman.bsky.social says of LeBron James. Read more of Weitzman's take on LeBron's impact on the Lakers in his book, A HOLLYWOOD ENDING: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

The BEST mystery novels of 2025?! Stephen Spotswood's Pentecost & Parker series makes the list: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

"Set in Lagos, this moody, engrossing novel braids together the stories of three women reared to believe that they are cursed because of a shared ancestor’s adultery." @newyorker.com on CURSED DAUGHTERS: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What are the 17 best books of 2025? @vanityfair.com lists KING OF KINGS by Scott Anderson: www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

Thank you, @whitingfoundation.bsky.social. Deeply grateful for this support & honored to be alongside my fellow honorees. Now to finish the book! Coming to you soon, @doubledaybooks.bsky.social.

@americanscientist.org calls GIRLS PLAY DEAD by @jenpercy.bsky.social "a much-needed exploration of the ways in which women survive trauma and carry it with them (physically and psychologically), along with how fear shapes behavior." www.americanscientist.org/blog/science...

Scott Anderson's history of the Iranian Revolution, KING OF KINGS "recalls the royalty, rebellion, and inept governance that collided to create a historic event that still reverberates today." Read more: www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

Finalists for the @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social Book Prize include @brandostarkey.bsky.social and his incredible book, THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2026-zocalo-...

Library Journal's Best Books of 2025 highlights books from @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social, @michaelluo.bsky.social, Stephen Spotswood, Brendan Slocumb, Eden Collinsworth, and MORE! A stellar gift guide for anyone on your list: www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...

"A story-driven and kaleidoscopic examination of women making sense of often unimaginable reactions to trauma." Jen Percy describes her new book GIRLS PLAY DEAD (and tells us what else she's reading) in this issue of Shelf Awareness: www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

It's December. You know what that means. Handel's Messiah season. Listen to the true surprising story behind its creation on Freakonomics, featuring the author of EVERY VALLEY, Charles King: freakonomics.com/podcast/the-...

KING OF KINGS, a history of the Iranian Revolution by Scott Anderson, is named one of the Atlantic's 10 books of 2025 that is worth "reading and remembering for years to come" via @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

The end of year lists keep coming!!! @wsj.com names KING OF KINGS by Scott Anderson one of the 10 best books of 2025: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

The @newyorker.com Essential Reads of 2025 is here! Including... STRANGERS IN THE LAND by @michaelluo.bsky.social!! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

@roxanegay.bsky.social says CURSED DAUGHTERS "asks important questions about how much of our life and our history is inherited and how much of it we are responsible for—and capable of—creating for ourselves." Learn more about her December book club pick: audacity.substack.com/p/introducin...

Oyinkan Braithwaite binged CIRCE, thinks writers should read JAZZ, and wants to be friends with ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Basically, she has unmatched taste. 😍 Find out what else is on her reading list from Elle: www.elle.com/culture/book...

For more on the life (and myth) of Jesus, read MIRACLES & WONDER by Elaine Pagels. Read the @nybooks.com review: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"It’s clear now how much of my decision-making and taste was shaped by men. GIRLS PLAY DEAD is a response to that." Read the interview with the author @jenpercy.bsky.social and Dina Nayeri for @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

"Part of what makes GIRLS PLAY DEAD so good—and so different from much other journalism on this subject—is that Percy is not telling readers what to think. She is simply allowing them to feel." Read the @nytimes.com review of GIRLS PLAY DEAD by @jenpercy.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/b...

New episode! Insights into spy craft & glam metal with Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social & his novel, The Whyte Python World Tour @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Now available on all the usual podcast platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/069-the-whyt...

On reading EVERY VALLEY by Charles King, Nicole Lacroix "was transported to the 18th Century and the Enlightenment—an epic journey with characters that feel as vivid and dramatic as those in fiction. It was like reading The Count of Monte Cristo or Dickens’ Bleak House." weta.org/fm/classical...

KING OF KINGS by Scott Anderson is "a cautionary tale, offering a window onto gross foreign policy missteps on the part of the United States that continue to reverberate to this day." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

One of our favorite gift-guides of the season is here! It's time for @npr.org "Books We Love" apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

SECOND LIFE by @amandahess.bsky.social is named one of Audible's 10 best books on wellness of 2025! www.audible.com/blog/article...

Looking for a gift for the basketball fan in your life? A HOLLYWOOD ENDING by @yaronweitzman.bsky.social has "plenty to dish" on the LeBron Lakers! via @wsj.com www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

"This extensively reported account chronicles the at times turbulent, at times triumphant partnership between these two icons...Weitzman’s insights extend beyond the team’s road to victory." @newyorker.com on A HOLLYWOOD ENDING by @yaronweitzman.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

We were all obsessed with MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER! In her new book, CURSED DAUGHTERS, author Oyin Braithwaite goes even deeper, crafting an unforgettable story of first loves and family secrets. Watch her on the @todayshow.com: www.today.com/video/-curse...

EVERY VALLEY by Charles King is being adapted for the screen by Christopher Hampton! Read more from Deadline: deadline.com/2025/11/ever...

"Filled with liberating accounts of the varied responses to violence, [GIRLS PLAY DEAD] cracked open chambers of my hardened heart." @kyledillonhertz.bsky.social talks to @jenpercy.bsky.social author of GIRLS PLAY DEAD for @interviewmagazine.com.web.brid.gy www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/w...

@yaronweitzman.bsky.social, author of A HOLLYWOOD ENDING, joins The Right Time with Bomani Jones to talk Lakers & LeBron: youtu.be/Dh6OPgBUMxU?...

"Tupac Shakur was a deeply political artist, shaped by the radical left-wing traditions of black America. A new biography finally does justice to this side of his life and work." @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on WORDS FOR MY COMRADES by @deanvannguyen.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/11/tupa... 🔥

Congratulations, Maria Reva! Her novel ENDLING wins the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize for fiction: www.cbc.ca/books/maria-...

Weijian Shan recommends STRANGERS IN THE LAND by @michaelluo.bsky.social via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Lovingly scrolling the Kirkus reviews best nonfiction of 2025! 😍 Featuring: KING OF KINGS by Scott Anderson, STRANGERS IN THE LAND by @michaelluo.bsky.social, BOOK OF LIVES by Margaret Atwood, GIRLS PLAY DEAD by @jenpercy.bsky.social, and MORE: www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...

Need help finding a holiday gift? @nytimes.com recommends the Pentecost & Parker series by Stephen Spotswood for readers who love historical thrillers! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.garagetostadiums.com/post/book-re... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @peteramescarlin.bsky.social #brucespringsteen

“This is a #book that will make you see the world quite differently—while also eliciting gasps of recognition. Passionate, erudite and punchy, #Prophecy will linger long in the memory.” —Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com, author of The Data Detective

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

EMPIRE OF PAIN and JAMES number among Audible’s 50 best audiobooks of the 21st century. www.audible.com/blog/best-au...

"To talk about consent in black-and-white terms is to ignore the subliminal power dynamics at play that are shaping our behaviors." @jenpercy.bsky.social author of GIRLS PLAY DEAD for Oprah Daily: www.oprahdaily.com/life/wholene...

Jen Percy, author of GIRLS PLAY DEAD, talked to @lithub.com.web.brid.gy about the craft of writing, women talking, and survival: lithub.com/jen-percy-on...

"I am drawn to the uncanny, to the ghost stories, to the ‘something’s not quite right’ stories." Tryphena Yeboah's interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite on her new book "Cursed Daughters” (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/11/i...