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

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

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

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

Gould (Can’t Buy Me Love, 2007) begins his biography of art-rock legends Talking Heads with an account of the band’s first show at legendary New York club CBGB, writing that the performance didn’t ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

Over the course of U.S.–Native American relations, too few people have remembered that the East Coast once abounded with Indigenous settlements. In the case of the Wampanoag, famed for their generous ...

Macauley infuses these vivid scenes from a doctor’s life with knotty reflections on the moral conundrums they pose. He grapples with the mystery of why God permits suffering and with the agonizing ...

Bari, a consultant who’s worked for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry for 30 years, offers an inspiring story of a woman who became very successful in her chosen field. In this narrative ...