Against this backdrop, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight this year served a dual purpose. Some reflected on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s ...

Through a series of vignettes, Kauffman’s fifth novel centers on a woman determined to spend Christmas with her extended ...

The Washington Post book reviewer offers his picks for some of "the best of the best" fiction and non-fiction of the year.

That’s how much good stuff there was ... price and intensify the effect.” “The History of Sound: Stories” by Ben Shattuck: Ever close a book and just … sigh? There’s nothing overtly ...

Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Prevention, The New York Times ...