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Prepub Preview | A Year of Titles To Watch

Barbara Hoffert, Feb 12, 2025

As the new year steams into action, the book season gets in full gear as well, greeting spring, summer, and fall with a long list of titles worth noting. From fiction that focuses on a range of contemporary concerns, to nonfiction reminding us that the past is always prologue, to poetry that summons attention, these are works to know, share, and read.

Best Poetry of 2024

Barbara Hoffert, Dec 02, 2024

These volumes’ lyric and reflective lines cry out against oppression, war, and annihilation and praise the complexity and absurdity of human existence.

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt | POETRY, Oct 01, 2024

Accessible distillations of heart and mind; readers don’t have to know Arendt’s philosophy (or philosophy generally) to read this work profitably and with pleasure.

Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023

Margaret Atwood | POETRY, Oct 01, 2024

Essential for any serious poetry collection.

Read-Alikes for ‘Intermezzo’ by Sally Rooney | LibraryReads

Kelly Currie, Jennifer Dayton, and Barbara Hoffert, Sep 25, 2024

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.