Chicago Review of Books: Most Anticipated Books of ’26
CRoB’s list includes BFA artists George Saunders (Vigil) and Nafissa Thompson-Spires (The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford). Read the full list here!
New York Times
Emily Skillings’ Tantrums in Air included on this list of The Best Poetry of 2025.
Center for Fiction
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jamila Minnicks, Elizabeth Acevedo longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2023 First Novel Prize.
New York Times
Jericho Brown and Torrey Peters featured in this conversation on the state of queer writing to make a list of essential literature.
Salon
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-Stars included on list of 22 books we’re looking forward to in 2023.
Electric Literature
Peruse 2022 favorites with books by Chen Chen, Chris Abani, Jenny Xie, George Saunders, Bernardine Evaristo, Meghan O’Rourke, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
National Book Awards
Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense and Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom among titles included on the National Book Awards’ longlists.
LitHub
Maria Adelmann recommends 11 novels, including titles George Saunders and Bernardine Evaristo, that thwart traditional narrative structure.
Elle
Check out this list of the most anticipated titles of 2022, including Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch.
Bookriot
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Li-Young Lee included on this list of influential Asian American literature of all time.