Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Books

  • Marwan Barghouti

    News
    Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison

    Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine is a collection of writings by the Palestinian political leader, who has been held in Israeli prisons since 2002
  • Neil Gaiman

    News
    Neil Gaiman claims sexual assault allegations are result of ‘smear campaign’

  • High Street Water LeakLocal businesses and passing pedestrians are reflected in the flowing water from a water leak on Ferndale Road in Brixton, on 14th January 2026, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    The Good Society by Kate Pickett review – the Spirit Level author takes stock

    Jonathan Portes
  • Prince of Wales Fort, Churchill, Manitoba,

    Fiction
    White River Crossing by Ian McGuire review – colonial greed drives a doomed hunt for gold

    Clare Clark
  • Stormzy sitting on a chair wearing a pale jumper

    News
    Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign

  • Old wooden sea defences at Winchelsea beach, East Sussex.C0WRX3 Old wooden sea defences at Winchelsea beach, East Sussex.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson

  • The Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan.

    Book of the day
    Rebel English Academy by Mohammed Hanif review – a sure-fire Booker contender

    Yagnishsing Dawoor

What to read

  1. Composite image for Best Paperbacks January 2026

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Anne Tyler, Jason Allen-Paisant and more

  2. DS The Guardian books cover web

    2025 in Culture
    The best books of 2025

  3. Covers of Ethan Frome, My Phantoms and Speak, Memory.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: George Saunders, Erin Somers and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Non-fiction reviews

  • Odysseus Longing for Home by Alexander Rothaug.

    Health, mind and body books
    Wise by Frank Tallis review – how to turn your midlife crisis into a hero’s journey

    Thomas W Hodgkinson
  • David Bowie performing in 1999.

    Biography books
    David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod review – the making of a modern saint

    Simon Critchley
  • Hwang Sunwoo (left) and Kim Hana.

    Memoir
    Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo review – the Korean bestseller about platonic partnership

    Tiffany Watt Smith
  • Gayle Newland in 2017.

    Biography books
    The Bed Trick by Izabella Scott review – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity

    Olivia Laing

Fiction & poetry reviews

  1. Nenets people, in the Russian Arctic.

    Translated fiction roundup
    The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

    John Self
  2. Madeline Cash

    Fiction
    Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash review – clever comedy for our conspiracy theory age

    Lara Feigel
  3. Find the wild puma in the nature habitat. Mountain lion in the nature winter mountain rock habitat, Torres del Paine NP in Chile. Wildlife nature in Patagonia, South America. Puma in snow, cold winter

    Fiction
    The Puma by Daniel Wiles review – a visceral tale of cyclical violence

    Caleb Klaces
  4. Ali Smith.

    Fiction
    Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza

    Keiran Goddard
Guardian Labs
Paid content
About

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team.

Learn more about Guardian Labs content

Scotland. For The Head, Heart And The Spirit

  • Mossgiel Organic Farm, Mauchline, East Ayrshire. Bryce Cunningham, farmer and owner of Mossgiel Organic Farm near Mauchline is pictured in a field with some of his herd of Ayrshire cows.

    ‘It was go bankrupt or try something different’ – how one Scottish farmer is rewriting the rules of dairy farming

  • Paddy Fletcher and Ian Stirling from the The Port Of Leith Distillery

    ‘Scotland is an exciting place to do business’ – meet the whisky makers shaking up a traditional industry

Paid for by
This content was paid for by Brand Scotland and produced by the Guardian Labs team.

Children's and YA books

  1. The Good Deed Dogs by Emma Chichester Clark.

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  2. picture of a mouse in bed

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  3. The Ocean at Night by Isabelle Simler

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams
  4. Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett

    Children's book roundup
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

    Imogen Russell Williams

Interviews

  1. Jeff Kinney with his creation Greg Heffley.

    Interview
    Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney: ‘I’ve sold 300m books. What’s next?’

  2. Fatima Bhutto.

    Interview
    Fatima Bhutto on her abusive relationship: ‘I thought it could never happen to me’

  3. Madeleine Gray

    Interview
    Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’

Regulars

  • Susan Choi.

    The books of my life
    Susan Choi: ‘For so long I associated Dickens with unbearable Christmas TV specials’

  • illustration of man relaxing in thumb-down symbol

    Big idea
    Why you should embrace rejection

  • Hollie McNish.

    Audiobook of the week
    Virgin by Hollie McNish audiobook review – myth-shattering poetry about purity and sex

  • Old wooden sea defences at Winchelsea beach, East Sussex.C0WRX3 Old wooden sea defences at Winchelsea beach, East Sussex.

    Poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson

You may have missed

  1. Mark Haddon and his sister, Fiona, in 1968.

    Extract
    ‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood

  2. Julian Barnes.

    Julian Barnes
    Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked!

  3. An illustration of a man opening a giant book like a doorway into green countryside.

    Self-help
    The self-help books that really work

Most viewed