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Best memoirs and biographies to read in 2025
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7 new cookbooks for winter cooking projects and edible solace
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One great cookbook: 'Mastering Spice' by Lior Lev Sercarz with Genevieve Ko
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5 cozy books to read this December
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Meet Youngmi Mayer, the renegade comedian whose frank new memoir is a blitzkrieg to the genre
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5 engrossing books to read this November
The Week Recommends Haruki Murakami's latest makes it stateside, and Niall Williams delivers a Christmas-time tearjerker
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One great cookbook: 'Every Grain of Rice' by Fuchsia Dunlop
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5 spellbinding new books to read in October. Witches and colonization tales included.
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5 riveting books to take you through September
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5 illuminating books about Appalachia that are very much not 'Hillbilly Elegy'
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How Black female science fiction and fantasy writers are upending the narrative
The Week Recommends There may be only a few making waves. But their effect has been seismic.
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5 poignant books to read this August
The Week Recommends Gayl Jones reemerges again, and Hellen Phillips casts her gaze to the near future with AI
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Alan Cumming picks his favourite books
The Week Recommends The award-winning actor selects works by Douglas Stuart, Christopher Isherwood and more
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