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.

With a scope never seen before or since, the Manhattan Project—to develop and build the first nuclear weapons—was a major scientific and industrial undertaking. This is the story of the people who ...

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 ...

The author notes that she quickly learned, while working in a corporate setting, that the “workplace wasn’t a meritocracy; it was a chessboard” on which many Black women were never taught all the ...

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 ...