From comfort reads to climate fiction, USA TODAY shares the books that defined 2025 and why these stories resonated.

Though the books on this year’s list are a varied group, with wildly different approaches to plot, tone and style, they’re ...

The best movies of 2025 include "Sinners," "Hedda," "One Battle After Another," "Eddington" and "The Naked Gun," according to our critic Amy Nicholson.

It’s easy to forget quite how mean-spirited Joe Dante’s wacky 80s monster movie actually is; but this strange, anarchic film ...

The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas ...

Listen: Amanda Petrusich thinks that Bon Iver’s “SABLE, fABLE” is one of the best albums of 2025. Today’s Crossword Puzzle: ...

Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the ...

Folks, if you can, get out a pen and paper because we're about to talk about some of our favorite books of the year, and you might want to jot a few of these titles down. With us to talk about NPR's ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. In recent years, some of the most talked-about literary novels have not given their readers much to talk about ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

To say that Sarah Hall’s “Helm” blew me away would be too cute, but it is the first novel I’ve ever read about wind. I don’t mean that “Helm” involves wind like, say, the cyclone that kicks off “The ...