Author: Rebecca Joines Schinsky

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. How Would You Describe Your Year in Reading? I’ve missed The Millions as they’ve been on hiatus this year, so I’m delighted to see their annual Year in Reading tradition continue, even if in abbreviated form. If you don’t find something new to read among the highlights from 18 contributors, I don’t know what to do for you. In a year defined by…

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 5 Things to Read Today As the publishing industry prepares to close for the rest of the year, the news cycle and my inbox are colder than Ebenezer Scrooge’s office. Here’s a snack-sized sampler of bookish content for the day. What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?: Vauhini Vara, whose book Searches recounts her experiment writing about AI in collaboration with AI, explores an existential question. Why Romance Fiction is Booming: The Guardian‘s Ella Risbridger delves into one of the book…

Today in Books Let the Best of 2025 come to you. Rebecca Joines Schinsky Nov 30, 2025 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Grab your coffee, settle into Sunday, and let the lists come to you. Here’s a holiday buffet of Best Books round-ups.

Welcome to your Saturday edition of Today in Books. Here’s the highlight reel from the week that was. The Biggest Best-Of-2025 List Has Landed NPR’s annual “Books We Love” feature is the antithesis of the hyper-curated top-ten. “More is more” readers, rejoice: the crew at NPR—hosts, producers, editors, everybody—has rounded up more than 380 books to celebrate. The gloriously massive list is filterable by all the usual genres, along with gift-assistance categories (art lovers, history lovers, etc), staff picks, book club recommendations, options for readers who prefer the “rather long” or “rather short” read, and, my favorite, “seriously great writing.”…

It has become my Thanksgiving custom to revisit this lovely piece of Jeff’s, originally from 2014. I hope it will give you pause to reflect on the gifts of reading in your own life. There’s a lot I love about reading. Here are a few things for which I am especially grateful: deckled edges finishing a book just as the train pulls into the station seeing someone reading a favorite book in public a good beginning a better ending a mysterious, wistful inscription in a used book re-reading a favorite and still agreeing with the notes you made in the…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Biggest Best-Of-2025 List Has Landed NPR’s annual “Books We Love” feature is the antithesis of the hyper-curated top-ten. “More is more” readers, rejoice: the crew at NPR—hosts, producers, editors, everybody—has rounded up more than 380 books to celebrate. The gloriously massive list is filterable by all the usual genres, along with gift-assistance categories (art lovers, history lovers, etc), staff picks, book club…

We’re a little more than halfway through the inaugural season of our new hit podcast Zero to Well-Read, and if you haven’t checked out yet, we think you’ll dig it. Part book club, part English class, Zero to Well-Read aims to be a fun, informative, and irreverent guide to the books everyone talks about, from classics you should have read in high school to modern hits everyone’s buzzing about. Follow Zero to Well-Read wherever you get your podcasts, and if you like the show, please share it with a bookish friend!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books. Here’s our the bookish news stories readers were most interested in this week. Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2025 You’re not imagining it; Best Books of the Year season is getting earlier and earlier. PW has been first out of the gate the last few years, dropping their list in the final days of October. Barnes & Noble beat them to the punch on Friday with not one, not two, not seven, but 19 lists. Both the number of lists and…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Barnes & Noble’s 2025 Book of the Year Finalists Hot on the heels of their Best Books of 2025, announced last week, Barnes & Noble has revealed the finalists for the 2025 Book of the Year, which is indeed a different thing. The Book of the Year award, introduced in 2019, is selected by booksellers and tends to go to widely recommendable titles…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Amazon Revisits 25 Years of Best Books Picks Amazon was early on the internet-based Best Books of the Year trend. As we close out the first quarter of the 21st century, they’ve rounded up all of their #1 picks and other highlights from 25 years of best-of lists. Amazon editors’ approach to Best Of is unique among online publications and retailers. The #1…