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Political scientist Julia Buxton chooses five books on modern Venezuelan politics and explains that this is only the latest political catastrophe to befall a country that has been plagued by its vast oil reserves. An endowment of natural resources that was expected to make the country rich when they were discovered in the early 20th century has only succeeded in making it poor and politically unstable. New Book Recommendations The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood MYTH RETELLINGS The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood “I really love the Penelopiad. It’s wonderful at bringing out some of what I already hinted was important in my work of a translator: teasing out the multiple perspectives, multiple voices in the Odyssey“—Emily Wilson, classicist and translator My Journey by Olga Sliozberg MEMOIR My Journey by Olga Sliozberg “I absolutely adore this gulag memoir. It’s special. I don’t normally read this sort of literature because it’s so gloomy and actually quite dull, this monotonous suffering and nothing else. Usually, if you do read this kind of book, you certainly don’t want to reread it. But this is completely different.”—Lyuba Vinogradova, historian Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain HISTORICAL FICTION Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain ⭐ Shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction “I just loved its ironies, which are of the sort that people often describe as ‘delicious’. I suppose it is the gap between perception and reality, and not just the narrator’s misunderstandings, but the readers’ expectations that are being constantly upended. I thought the ending was just perfect, too”—Toby Clements, historical novelist Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński NONFICTION BOOKS Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński “Kapuscinski is widely regarded as the greatest travel writer of the 20th century. Polish by birth, he witnessed some 40 revolutions and wars during his time as a journalist. He had already built a long and illustrious career when he found his way to Iran on the eve of the 1979 revolution”—Jasmin Darznik, novelist and academic A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher FANTASY A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher 🏆 Winner of the 2025 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel “I love T. Kingfisher’s writing – both as Kingfisher, and when she writes as Ursula Vernon. There’s something so matter of fact and grounded about her tone; she could invent absolutely anything and I’d find her believable. And she imagines some wonderfully peculiar things.”—Sylvia Bishop, SFF editor, Five Books Vigil: A Novel by George Saunders FICTION Vigil by George Saunders “Vigil follows one person’s transition from life to the afterlife. The novel unfolds at the bedside of an oil company CEO, as angelic beings attempt to force him to reflection…his fiction goes beyond honesty, beyond perceptiveness, and into something much weirder and more mysterious—and, I think, more profound. Don’t miss it.”—Cal Flyn, deputy editor, Five Books Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein by James Patterson NONFICTION Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein by James Patterson “You probably already know James Patterson as a thriller novelist, but he was also a Florida neighbor of the reviled pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein…Bad Blood is a fast-paced, compelling read, and an excellent primer for anyone who’s seen bits and pieces in the news without knowing the full story.”—Five Books editors A Perfect Spy by John le Carré SPY NOVELS A Perfect Spy by John le Carré “I think in some ways this is the perfect novel. It’s just a wonderful, heartbreaking, stunning picking apart of the world of espionage and what it does to the soul…It’s one of my top three or four books of all time. It’s the one I have reread the most in my life, because it is a book of extraordinary depth and complexity of character.”—Alex Preston, novelist The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson HISTORY The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson “What Watson teases out…is that the terrible horrors that take place in this part of the world during the 1930s and 1940s and the Second World War have their blueprint in this moment of the breakup of this single empire into ethnic groups. It becomes a real horror show”—Paul Lay, historian The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins FICTION BOOKS The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins ⭐ Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize “In this noirish mystery, a frustrated news reporter—trapped in a dead-end job writing about local fundraisers—finds his postindustrial town oddly reinvigorated by a high-profile murder investigation, and can’t help but insert himself into proceedings.”—Cal Flyn, deputy editor, Five Books Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 🏆 Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature “Sinclair Lewis isn’t thought of these days as a funny writer, but his portrayal of the fictional Midwestern bore Babbitt is very funny, and it’s been ripped off many times – usually a sign that something works.”—Andy Borowitz, comedian The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen NOVELS The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 🏆 Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction “The protagonist is half French, half Vietnamese. He’s a spy working undercover for the communists in Saigon and then in the US. When he returns to post-war communist Vietnam, he is imprisoned by his own side”—Sherry Buchanan, journalist Flesh: A Novel by David Szalay FICTION BOOKS Flesh by David Szalay 🏆 Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize “Flesh explores the ways power, money, and desire intertwine, and how loneliness can endure even amid apparent success… One of the things that I find remarkable is its subtle exploration of how the marks left by youth can echo through an entire life.”—Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, chair of the judges The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 🏆 Winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel “In the first book of the trilogy, science basically stops working on Earth, and there’s a big puzzle as to why. Particle accelerators start giving random results, and a bunch of scientists commit suicide.”—Simon Beard, philosopher Beethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet BIOGRAPHY Beethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet “It’s a very good book and a very readable introduction to Beethoven’s life and work. It’s compulsively readable…He really makes it jump off the page in a very immediate way. When people ask me to recommend a good, solid non-technical introductory book to Beethoven and his world, I always recommend that one. I think he really nails it.”—Jessica Duchen, music critic Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto and narrated by Eunice Wong COZY MYSTERIES Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto ⭐ Shortlisted for the 2024 CWA Gold Dagger “This is about a very fun character. She’s called Vera Wong and she runs Vera Wang’s Tea House in San Francisco. That’s on purpose: she wants to ghost off the name Vera Wang—but her teahouse is not very successful. She comes down one morning and there is a dead body.”—Michele Cobb, audiobook critic A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell TRUE CRIME A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell “A Thread of Violence is about a man called Malcolm Macarthur who murdered two people in Dublin in the 1980s. He was sentenced to a life term but had been released and was living in Dublin again when Mark O’Connell thought of writing a book about him. O’Connell met him, befriended him and interviewed him over a long period.”—Kate Summerscale, author Last Acts: A Novel by Alexander Sammartino THE FUNNIEST BOOKS OF 2025 Last Acts by Alexander Sammartino ⭐ Shortlisted for the 2025 Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction “It has a very American sensibility. We start off with what feels like quite an unpromising situation: a man, David Rizzio, in midlife, flailing in debt. He owns a gun shop that is going under. He’s got himself in trouble through various financial Ponzi schemes.”—Stephanie Merritt, prize judge What We Can Know: A Novel by Ian McEwan AUDIOBOOKS What We Can Know by Ian McEwan ⭐ An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2025 “Narrators David Rintoul and Rachel Bavidge perform with distinct British styles as this speculative novel jumps around in time. Rintoul portrays Tom, who lives in the 22nd century, when the diminished world has experienced climate catastrophes and been ravaged by AI-controlled wars.”—AudioFile editors The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay SCIENCE FICTION The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay 🏆 Winner of the 2021 Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction “The premise…is that there is a pandemic, but it’s a virus that enables humans to start to understand the speech of animals. But not in a Doctor Dolittle way, when we can just chat to them. It’s more like the Wittgenstein idea that ‘If a lion could speak, we could not understand him”—Tom Hunter, director, Arthur C Clarke Award Kindle Paperwhite by Amazon THE BEST KINDLES IN 2025 Which Kindle to get? “That’s an easy question for me, Kindle Paperwhite is the most popular Kindle by far…It has all the best features that you would want”—Maneetpaul Singh, Kindle reviewer and author of Kindle Bookworm AI BOOKS ChatGPT-4 offers its own opinions on artificial intelligence “These books offer valuable insights into the development, challenges, and future prospects of AI”—ChatGPT-4, AI chatbot A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson BOOKS FOR TEENS A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson ⭐ American Library Association Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults “I like crime novels and thrillers, and I found this one particularly well written. Pip very carefully and methodically considers her suspects, follows the clues and puts together a very comprehensive investigation”—Breege O’Brien, librarian Croco by Azul López & translated by Kit Maude BOOKS FOR KIDS Croco by Azul López & translated by Kit Maude 🏆 2026 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book translated into English “This is a lovely book by a talented Mexican artist who vividly brings the jungle to life. A little crocodile has fallen into a pit, too deep to crawl out of. Friendly animals offer advice, but none of it works. How can Croco get himself out? The illustrations and creative format really make young readers feel how tall the jungle is and how deep a hole Croco is stuck in.”—Tuva Kahrs, children’s editor Five Books Most Popular Expert Interviews Award-Winning Sci Fi Novels of 2025, recommended by Sylvia Bishop The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2026 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Andrew Holgate The Best Literary Spy Novels, recommended by Alex Preston The Best Epic Fantasy Novels, recommended by Christopher Paolini The World’s Oldest Books, recommended by Tuva Kahrs Books Being Made into Movies in 2026, selected by Five Books Historical Novels Based on True Stories, recommended by Emily Howes The best books on The Psychology of Human Behaviour, recommended by Michael Hallsworth Booker Prize-Nominated Mystery Novels, recommended by Cal Flyn The Best Historical Fiction of 2025, recommended by Katharine Grant The best books on Communication, recommended by Matt Abrahams The best books on Big Projects, recommended by Jonathan Simcock Most Recommended Books Middlemarch by George Eliot Recommended 16 times War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Recommended 16 times Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley Recommended 15 times On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Recommended 13 times The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson Recommended 12 times Dracula by Bram Stoker Recommended 12 times Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Recommended 11 times Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Recommended 11 times Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Recommended 10 times Republic by Plato Recommended 9 times The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) Recommended 9 times The Road by Cormac McCarthy Recommended 9 times The Great Gatsby by F. 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Award-winning author Jo Walton introduces us to five landmark stories of fairies – wide-ranging in setting and themes, but always at once alluring and discomfiting. The Best Fairy Books for Adults, recommended by Jo Walton Fairies have long stood for the numinous other, and since the twentieth century authors have put fairy tradition to a variety of uses. Award-winning author Jo Walton introduces us to five landmark stories of fairies – wide-ranging in setting and themes, but always at once alluring and discomfiting. The Best Fairy Books for Adults, recommended by Jo Walton The best books on Industrial Artifact Photography, recommended by Jeff Brouws Read 1 Industrial Landscapes by Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher Read 2 Factory Valleys: Ohio and Pennsylvania by Lee Friedlander Read 3 Portraits in Steel by Milton Rogovin Read 4 Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape by Frank Gohlke Read 5 Manhole Covers by Mimi Melnick & Robert A. Melnick Every era has its monuments. What architectural legacy has the Industrial Revolution left behind? Jeff Brouws is a photographer whose work explores the American cultural landscape through a typological lens. His latest book, Silent Monoliths: The Coaling Tower Project, documents concrete coaling towers that once fueled steam locomotives across North America. He talks us through five essential books on industrial photography—from the Bechers' rigorous documentation to intimate portraits of displaced steelworkers—and explores what we preserve when structures themselves vanish. The best books on Industrial Artifact Photography, recommended by Jeff Brouws Every era has its monuments. What architectural legacy has the Industrial Revolution left behind? Jeff Brouws is a photographer whose work explores the American cultural landscape through a typological lens. His latest book, Silent Monoliths: The Coaling Tower Project, documents concrete coaling towers that once fueled steam locomotives across North America. He talks us through five essential books on industrial photography—from the Bechers’ rigorous documentation to intimate portraits of displaced steelworkers—and explores what we preserve when structures themselves vanish. The best books on Industrial Artifact Photography, recommended by Jeff Brouws Books With Strong Female Leads Read 1 Circe by Madeline Miller Read 2 The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Read 3 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A Novel by Shannon Chakraborty Read 4 Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid Read 5 The Tower by Flora Carr Read 6 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters In recent years, there has been a slew of novels retelling old myths and epics from the perspective of a female character, but books with strong female leads are nothing new. From classic fiction to memoirs, from fantasy to thrillers, literature is populated with female leads — both fictional and real — who are strong in different ways. Books With Strong Female Leads In recent years, there has been a slew of novels retelling old myths and epics from the perspective of a female character, but books with strong female leads are nothing new. From classic fiction to memoirs, from fantasy to thrillers, literature is populated with female leads — both fictional and real — who are strong in different ways. Books With Strong Female Leads The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer Read 1 Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD by Colin Platt Read 2 Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience by Barbara Harvey Read 3 The Great Household in Late Medieval England by C. M. Woolgar Read 4 Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200–1520 by Christopher Dyer Read 5 Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England by Carole Rawcliffe "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there," wrote L.P. Hartley. The question is: in what ways? Historian Ian Mortimer talks us through five influential books that shed light on daily life in medieval England—from monastic communities and great households to the gruelling lives of the peasantry. The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley. The question is: in what ways? Historian Ian Mortimer talks us through five influential books that shed light on daily life in medieval England—from monastic communities and great households to the gruelling lives of the peasantry. The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer Historical Novels Based on True Stories, recommended by Emily Howes Read 1 The Pretender: A Novel by Jo Harkin Read 2 The Tower by Flora Carr Read 3 Mrs Pearcey by Lottie Moggach Read 4 Mrs. Hemingway: A Novel by Naomi Wood Read 5 Frida by Claire Berest, translated by Stephanie Smee The best historical fiction should transport the reader directly into the past, yet offer insight that reflects upon the present, argues Emily Howes, whose new novel Mrs. Dickens will be released later this year. Here, she recommends five of her favourite historical novels that, like her own books, are drawn from true stories. Historical Novels Based on True Stories, recommended by Emily Howes The best historical fiction should transport the reader directly into the past, yet offer insight that reflects upon the present, argues Emily Howes, whose new novel Mrs. Dickens will be released later this year. Here, she recommends five of her favourite historical novels that, like her own books, are drawn from true stories. Historical Novels Based on True Stories, recommended by Emily Howes The best books on Friedrich Hayek, recommended by Philip Mirowski Read 1 Reinventing Liberalism: The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947) by Ola Innset Read 2 Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell & Hansjoerg Klausinger Read 3 The Political Theory of Neoliberalism by Thomas Biebricher Read 4 Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian Read 5 Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism by Naomi Beck Friedrich Hayek was not a great formal economist, but he has been hugely influential politically and in the evolution of modern microeconomics, perhaps in spite of himself, argues Philip Mirowski, a historian and philosopher of economic thought. He talks us through books to better understand the Austrian émigré who ended up in the United States as the great convener of neo-liberalism in the mid-20th century and whose ideas are still influential in the new populism. The best books on Friedrich Hayek, recommended by Philip Mirowski Friedrich Hayek was not a great formal economist, but he has been hugely influential politically and in the evolution of modern microeconomics, perhaps in spite of himself, argues Philip Mirowski, a historian and philosopher of economic thought. He talks us through books to better understand the Austrian émigré who ended up in the United States as the great convener of neo-liberalism in the mid-20th century and whose ideas are still influential in the new populism. The best books on Friedrich Hayek, recommended by Philip Mirowski Five Lesser-Known Books by Sci Fi Greats, recommended by Sylvia Bishop Read 1 The Telling by Ursula Le Guin Read 2 The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham Read 3 The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd Read 4 Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov Read 5 Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut Sci fi writers have busy, flexible minds and give us a lot to enjoy beyond their famous novels, says our fantasy and sci fi editor Sylvia Bishop. Here, she recommends five of her favourite lesser-known works by big names: from novels to short form, and from the wonders of science to glorious nonsense. Five Lesser-Known Books by Sci Fi Greats, recommended by Sylvia Bishop Sci fi writers have busy, flexible minds and give us a lot to enjoy beyond their famous novels, says our fantasy and sci fi editor Sylvia Bishop. Here, she recommends five of her favourite lesser-known works by big names: from novels to short form, and from the wonders of science to glorious nonsense. Five Lesser-Known Books by Sci Fi Greats, recommended by Sylvia Bishop The best books on Communication, recommended by Matt Abrahams Read 1 Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madson Read 2 Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Read 3 Communicate with Mastery: Speak With Conviction and Write for Impact by J D Schramm Read 4 Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you) by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas Read 5 Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves by Alison Wood Brooks Communication is critical to getting on in our lives and in business, but many of us fall short in communicating what we want in the right way to the right audiences. Matt Abrahams of Stanford's Graduate School of Business talks us through five books packed with practical advice on how to improve your communication skills—from the insights of improvisational theater to the acronym to use if you want people to remember what you've said. The best books on Communication, recommended by Matt Abrahams Communication is critical to getting on in our lives and in business, but many of us fall short in communicating what we want in the right way to the right audiences. Matt Abrahams of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business talks us through five books packed with practical advice on how to improve your communication skills—from the insights of improvisational theater to the acronym to use if you want people to remember what you’ve said. The best books on Communication, recommended by Matt Abrahams Historical Fiction Set in Latin America, recommended by Sofia Robleda Read 1 The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes Read 2 You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer Read 3 A Ballad of Love and Glory: A Novel by Reyna Grande Read 4 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Read 5 The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez English-speaking readers are not always so familiar with the dramatic historical events of Central and South America, says Sofia Robleda—author of a new novel set during the Aztec empire, The Other Moctezuma Girls. But if you enjoy historical fiction with heart and soul, you are bound to love these five vibrant, "hugely relevant" novels set in Latin America. Historical Fiction Set in Latin America, recommended by Sofia Robleda English-speaking readers are not always so familiar with the dramatic historical events of Central and South America, says Sofia Robleda—author of a new novel set during the Aztec empire, The Other Moctezuma Girls. But if you enjoy historical fiction with heart and soul, you are bound to love these five vibrant, “hugely relevant” novels set in Latin America. Historical Fiction Set in Latin America, recommended by Sofia Robleda The best books on The Titanic, recommended by Steven Biel Read 1 Titanic: First Accounts by Tim Maltin Read 2 Sinking of the Titanic: The Greatest Disaster At Sea by Logan Marshall Read 3 Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy by Charles A. Haas & John P. Eaton Read 4 Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge Read 5 A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic by Walter Lord More than a century after it went down, our fascination with the Titanic shows no signs of dimming, its story told in numerous books and movies—both fact and fiction. Steven Biel, a historian at Harvard, recommends books to read about the Titanic, from early first-person accounts of the disaster to a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated reference guide.   The best books on The Titanic, recommended by Steven Biel More than a century after it went down, our fascination with the Titanic shows no signs of dimming, its story told in numerous books and movies—both fact and fiction. Steven Biel, a historian at Harvard, recommends books to read about the Titanic, from early first-person accounts of the disaster to a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated reference guide.   The best books on The Titanic, recommended by Steven Biel Discover more books like the books you already love Books like... The Song of Achilles Books like... The Thursday Murder Club Books like... Dune Books like... The Secret History Books like... Bridgerton Books like... Normal People Recent Reader Lists Our aim is to make Five Books the place to go to on the web for book recommendations, arranged by topic. Help us achieve our goal by making a reading list on a subject you know a lot about. These lists have been created by our readers using our new interactive tool. Browse them all, or make your own. Best books for ages 9-11, by Nadya, recommended by Nadya Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga, Book One by David A. 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