The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
Published 2025
384 pages
The most popular literary criticism books of 2025
Literary criticism is writing about books and how they work. Studies of great authors, guides to movements and periods, close readings and essays on reading itself are all here. Useful for students, and rewarding for any reader who wants to go deeper into a favorite work. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
Maggie Nelson
2025 · 2026 edition
80 pages
Authority Essays
Andrea Long Chu
Published 2025
288 pages
The Kingdom of Cain
Andrew Klavan
Published 2025
272 pages
Keep It Fake Inventing an Authentic Life
Eric G. Wilson
Published 2025
241 pages
The Bit Between My Teeth A Literary Chronicle Of 1950-1965
Edmund Wilson
2025 · 1965 edition
694 pages
Meera Aur Meera
Mahadevi Verma
Published 2025
80 pages
Anthony Trollope
Dinah Birch
Published 2025
176 pages
Medieval Romance (Routledge Library Editions
John E. Stevens
Published 2025
258 pages
Women Creating Classics A Retrospective
Published 2025
304 pages
50 European Novels
Philip Callow, Martin Seymour-Smith
Published 2025
270 pages
Post-war Adaptations
Imelda Whelehan
Published 2025
240 pages
Ethnography and Folklore in Print Cross-Genre Explorations of Nineteenth-Century Social Knowledge
Published 2025
204 pages
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics From Norm to Desire
Luiz Valle Junior
Published 2025
180 pages
OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter Verse Authors
John Godwin
Published 2025
288 pages
Counter-Cartographies Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance
Leon J. Hilton
Published 2025
232 pages
Citational Media Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture
Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington
Published 2025
242 pages
Living on After Failure Affective Structures of Modern Life
Irving Goh
Published 2025
224 pages
Raw Outrage The Films of Phil Mulloy
Chris Robinson
Published 2025
144 pages
Child As Citizen Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture
Giuliana Fenech
Published 2025
259 pages
Notes on Vermin
Caroline Hovanec
Published 2025
204 pages
Beyond The Universe
PRAGATI. MUKHERJEE
Published 2025
82 pages
Monarchies and the Organization of Power Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Compared (2100-1750 BC)
Seth Richardson, Moreno García, Juan Carlos
Published 2025
94 pages
Dead and Alive Essays
Zadie Smith
Published 2025
352 pages