The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 14 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and Ind...
12.17.2025 Latimes.com and 11 sites
When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home before long. At 29, he’d already established himself as an innovative force in P...
12.17.2025 Eastbaytimes.com and 2 sites
The sheer number of books published in any given year is overwhelming. Even if your local bookstore is particularly well-appointed, it can’t make space for everything publishers have on offer. That ca...
12.16.2025 Dailynews.com and 8 sites
The holiday season is the perfect time to get lost in a good mystery or thriller. A particularly well-crafted one can take your mind off the stress that comes with the end of the year, and the books m...
12.16.2025 Presstelegram.com and 8 sites
It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s good news. You can read these books whenever you want — this year, next year, Leap Day, anytime. This best-of thing isn’t really a competition — it’s a collaboration between writers, editors, designers, publicists, booksellers, journalists and readers like you. And the prize isn’t a trophy: it’s a bun...
12.18.2025 Dailynews.com and 6 sites
A new year always brings new books, but 2026 promises an especially rich feast of fiction and non-fiction. From sweeping fantasy and historical epics to urgent political novels and intimate memoirs, t...
12.17.2025 Newarab.com
In the last 15 years, Iranians have quietly constructed an alternative moral order rooted not in revolutionary sacrifice but in dignity, bodily autonomy, and truth-telling, including about the victims...
12.15.2025 Foreignpolicy.com and 1 sites
Updated with new questions at 4: 50 p. m. ET on December 12, 2025. You’ve been waiting to build that dream place of yours, there in the spot you picked out a few years back, between the pons and the f...
12.13.2025 Allusanewshub.com