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A celebrity memoir, a dystopian comic tour-de-force, and more of what we couldn’t put down.
A celebrity memoir, a dystopian comic tour-de-force, and more of what we couldn’t put down.
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Find your next read and explore the big ideas around literature and publishing with the 2025 Summer Book Club.
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A new novel paints a portrait of a world ruled by almighty algorithm.
Our pick for November 2021 is Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.
The next Vox Book Club pick is The Immortal King Rao.
In this lovely and heartbroken novel, neither superpowers nor true love can stop systemic racism.
Spend May with Jonathan Lethem’s lovely and prescient novel of friendship, race, class, and superheroes.
The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a tour de force short story collection.
“We need fiction like we need water.”
The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a ferociously smart set of short stories that read like fairy tales for the 21st century.
Benjamín Labatut’s nonfiction novel is haunting and astonishing.
Explore the cosmic awe and horror of science with Vox Book Club and Unexplainable.
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest sees Indians haunted by the ghosts of vengeful white people.
Erdrich, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, is the Vox Book Club’s latest guest.
The Vox Book Club’s January pick delves into our collective internet consciousness.
Writer and critic Lauren Oyler skewers the needy posturing of our online selves.
The Vox Book Club is reading Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This and Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts.
Kiley Reid’s debut novel reveals the lie behind the claims that the Obama age was post-racial.
Kiley Reid’s debut novel has one of literature’s cringiest Thanksgiving scenes.
The National Book Award-nominated novel brings the swaggering brilliance of 12th-century poet Marie de France to towering life.
If you’d like to read about witchy feminist medieval nuns, then boy, do we have a book for you.
Why you can’t unlock this novel’s secret meaning.
The Vox Book Club joins the author of Piranesi at the end of September for a live Zoom chat.
Spend September with the haunted, haunting Piranesi, from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
Join the Vox Book Club in discussing our June pick.
Sathian discussed her debut novel in a Zoom Q&A with the Vox Book Club.
Rumaan Alam’s National Book Award finalist is the Vox Book Club’s pick for June.
In the Vox Book Club’s May pick, sin is petty and low-stakes. That’s what makes the book work.
Our May book features alchemy, heists, and diaspora politics.
The author of The Death of Vivek Oji spoke with the Vox Book Club for our April live event.
Join us in reading Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian’s gripping debut novel.
In Akwaeki Emezi’s ferocious and kaleidoscopic novel, the real mystery is whether Vivek truly lived.
Alderman explains how to build a world in a live Zoom interview with our book critic.
Nigerian novelist Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji is ferocious and kaleidoscopic.
The book starts as an empowerment fantasy and turns into a dystopia.
The novelist joins the Vox Book Club to discuss her smash hit debut.
Read along with us as we delve into Naomi Alderman’s award-winning dystopia.
The Vox February book pick is assured and cutting.
In Raven Leilani’s novel, family traumas echo across romance.
Locked Tomb author Tamsyn Muir to angry girls who read her books: “It’s for you. Go nuts.”
Chase away the winter doldrums with the Vox Book Club.
Two critics spiral on how much they love Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb Trilogy.