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A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Summer is heating up with these hot new books Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print ...

In keeping with our annual tradition, we asked three of our critics for their favorite books of the last year. Between them, they chose 15 books, three of them reissues, and the majority fiction. The ...

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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. These book recs are perfect for the holiday season and beyond Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she ...

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16 best new books to read in 2026, from Patrick Radden Keefe to Elizabeth Strout - Discover debut novelists and immersive ...

Set in late-21st-century Australia, this novel (published in Australia in 2022 but out now more widely) follows Tao-Yi in a world where most people spend their lives in an immersive virtual reality ...