A lively plot in a literary novel? The worthy works of 2025 revel in storytelling.

Whether you’re looking to escape our chaotic present or dive into its roots in the past, this year’s historical novels will amply satisfy. Here are my choices for the 10 best, in alphabetical order.

Scientific American’s staffers may spend their days embedded in real-world science discoveries, but their nights are often ...

On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...

For your Christmas list: The best fiction and non-fiction books of 2025 - BOOKS OF 2025: Captivating novels, surprising ...

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

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 ...

A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research ...

Hazelight’s latest co-operative romp, Split Fiction, is the studio at its best. Having clearly built upon its spiritual predecessors (A Way Out and game of the year 2021, It Takes Two) — while ...

Science fiction writer and editor Gautam Bhatia; and the cover of 'Between Worlds'. (Images via Instagram) Open call for submissions to the second in an annual anthology of Indian science fiction will ...

It’s a big day for bookworms: scientists studying how reading fiction affects your brain say the news is very good. In an interview with PsyPost, Lena Wimmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s ...

Some years are better than others for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The last genuine blockbuster year was probably 2015, which gave us N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, Ken Liu’s The ...