Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

With a scope never seen before or since, the Manhattan Project—to develop and build the first nuclear weapons—was a major scientific and industrial undertaking. This is the story of the people who ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

A doctor copes with the anguish of dying children in this searching medical memoir.

A CEO and board advisor tells a story of transcending societal limits.

According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, ...

Torok presents a beginner’s guide to an alternative energy-healing therapy and its potential health benefits.