Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” In R.F. Kuang’s highly anticipated new novel, Katabasis (Harper Voyager, Aug. 26), Hell is higher education. A mishap with a pentagram has splattered acclaimed ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

A Wizard of Oz–themed guide to self-care for caregivers from Green. The Wizard of Oz and its adaptation, The Wiz, are employed as metaphors for the caregiving experience in this self-help book.The ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

A carbon standard? The idea is nothing if not audacious: solving global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it, perhaps in bank vaults where it would function like the gold ...

On the orders of her mother, a woman goes to dragon-riding school. Even though her mother is a general in Navarre’s army, 20-year-old Violet Sorrengail was raised by her father to follow his path as a ...

I Who Have Never Known Men ($22.00; May 1997; 224 pp.; 1-888363-43-6): In this futuristic fantasy (which is immediately reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale), the nameless narrator ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...