Essie Chambers has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, given annually to an emerging African American fiction writer, for her debut novel, Swift River.

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.

Josephine Jones—an autistic American editor transplanted to Yorkshire—finds her stint as a landlady getting off to a rocky start, more or less literally.

The short rhyming verses, written from the grandfather’s perspective, largely stick to mentions of what the two see and feel on their autumn walk. Meanwhile, Hokkanen’s illustrations tell a larger ...

A teeny-tiny kernel sporting a cowboy hat, introduced in the chapter book Popcorn Bob (2021), attempts to curb some big emotions.

The protagonist of Summer Is for Cousins! (2023) encounters further ups and downs as school starts.

A bookstore owner discovers her shop has a unique and wonderous secret in Andersen’s novel.

A 24-year-old autistic woman displays a remarkable talent for detection in this novel by an autistic author.

This is a collection of spare, often arresting, mostly free verse poems—the style suits the author’s reflective, observational tone, which blends the personal and political with subtlety and ...

In this memoir, a journalist details his Polish family’s flight from the Nazis during World War II and his own efforts to fill in the many blanks.

A human misfit in a Fae family finds a purpose—and possibly a soulmate—in Joyce’s romantasy novel. Adeline is a human living in a fantastical, medieval-like realmwhose mother married the Fae King ...