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

Translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle, Bélem’s fictional account of Edmond’s experiences is also an ironic portrait ...

Our picks include new novels by Hazel Gaynor, Nell Stevens, Meg Waite Clayton, Norman Lock and Heather Clark.

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Books That Shaped the Abolitionist Movement ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic. It tells the story of how the abused white boy Huck and the runaway black slave Jim teamed up to escape their circumstances.

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...