We've finally reached the end of 2025, and while certain events in reality might have left us feeling worn down, the fantasy worlds 2025 provided were just the ...

While there has certainly been a lot about 2024 that has failed to meet many of our customer satisfaction standards, at least we’ve still got books. In a year full of outstanding titles across genres ...

Fantasy often promises adventure, but some stories turn inward instead. We examine ten fantasy novels where the real battles ...

Books based off of fan fiction have steadily been on the rise. On a Dec. 19 episode of the 'Book Review' podcast, 'New York Times' journalists discussed some of 2025's biggest literary trends, ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. N.K. Jemisin, author of the acclaimed "Broken Earth" series, one of the best fantasy sagas. Fantasy books offer an escape from ...

Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025.

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're looking to get totally immersed in a fantasy world, there's no better medium than a novel. But what if you want to be the one making narrative choices within that world? Then, you'll want an ...

Our favorite books this year were so wonderfully human. A sexbot’s quest for self-determination; a haunted house inhabited by angry witches; more than one heartbreaking new take on time travel — genre ...

For all that it includes some of the biggest shopping days of the year, December is a traditionally light month in the world of publishing. Most of the biggest titles of 2024 have already hit shelves, ...