What we’re reading: George Saunders, Erin Somers and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in January
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Susan Choi: ‘For so long I associated Dickens with unbearable Christmas TV specials’
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Wise by Frank Tallis review – how to turn your midlife crisis into a hero’s journey
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Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround
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One of 2025’s Biggest Books Came Out of Nowhere. After Reading It, I Think I Understand Why.
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‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade
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Robert Crumb review – sexual deviancy elevated to an art form
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Virgin by Hollie McNish audiobook review – myth-shattering poetry about purity and sex
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From incel culture to the White House: American Psycho’s dark hold on modern masculinity
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Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash review – clever comedy for our conspiracy theory age
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‘Of course I’m scared’: people confront their final days – in pictures
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A High-Society Lawyer and a Hedge Funder Got Divorced. The Result Is the Best Memoir I’ve Read in Some Time.
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Adelaide Writers’ Week was cancelled two weeks ago. ‘Not Writers’ Week’ is determined to do things differently
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People Love to “Just Ask Questions” About This Controversial Issue in Sports. Here’s How to Answer Them Once and for All.
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Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
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The Puma by Daniel Wiles review – a visceral tale of cyclical violence
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‘Question the status quo!’: Britain’s queer immigrants – in pictures
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He Went on an Infamous Reality Show, Twice. Now He’s Written a Novel About … an Infamous Reality Show.
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With The Rainbow Serpent, Dick Roughsey shared the spirit of our country. His work is a gift to us all | Alexis Wright
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It’s Long Been Considered One of the Most Mysterious Places in the World. The Answer Was Hiding in Plain Sight.
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Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo review – the Korean bestseller about platonic partnership
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Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza
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12 books to read between episodes of 'Bridgerton' season 4
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Eric Huntley obituary
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Poem of the week: Song by Lady Mary Chudleigh
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The Bed Trick by Izabella Scott review – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity
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Tom Gauld on writing in January – cartoon
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Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’
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Should we sell our kidneys?
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One of Our Most Acclaimed Writers Is Back With His First Novel in a Decade. It Doesn’t Go Quite Where You’d Expect.
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Report reveals that OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
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‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood
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Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough review – a jaw-dropping exposé of money laundering
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Colorado investigators confirm Hunter S Thompson’s 2005 death was a suicide
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You can now create AI-generated coloring books in Microsoft Paint
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Beautiful Little Fool review – F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald musical needs jazzing up
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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
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Ali Smith: ‘Henry James had me running down the garden path shouting out loud’
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Custody: The Secret History of Mothers by Lara Feigel – why women still have to fight for their children
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May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review – a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut
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Workhorse by Caroline Palmer review – a Devil Wears Prada-style tale of ambition
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‘It’s about making reading as natural as breathing’: Malorie Blackman backs the National Year of Reading
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On Censorship by Ai Weiwei review – are we losing the battle for free speech?
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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood review – getting through the day
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Is listening to an audiobook as good as reading?
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Vigil by George Saunders review – will a world-wrecking oil tycoon repent?
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This Audible deal ends soon: Get three months of access for only $3
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Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era
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Ice hockey and then some: Heated Rivalry is a worldwide hit – and no one is happier about it than us Canadians | Sue Carter
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‘It felt celebratory’: Portrait of Britain winners – in pictures
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Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked!
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Poem of the week: Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? by Richard W Halperin
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The one change that worked: I tried all the hobbies I thought I’d hate – and found friendship and escape
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Be More Bird by Candida Meyrick review – less soaring avian self-help than a parroting of tired cliches
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Tom Gauld cartoon on difficult New Year’s resolutions – cartoon
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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
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Polyamory, regrets and revenge: changing the story on infidelity
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There Is No Comfortable Reading Position. There Is Only One Bleak Solution.
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Bad Marriages and Middle Age in Curtis Sittenfeld’s Stories
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‘There is a moment of clarity that life would be better without alcohol’: what we can learn from addiction memoirs
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Bad Marriages, Middle Age, and the Passage of Time
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‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work
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Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter
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Audible deal: Three months of access is only $3 right now
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Civilised but casual, often hilarious, Adelaide writers’ week is everything a festival should be – except this year | Tory Shepherd
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books
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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
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Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray review – friends, lovers or something in between?
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Death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s son prompts calls for overhaul of Nigeria’s healthcare sector
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H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald audiobook review – a soaring journey through grief
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