May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them ...

Scott Patterson is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covers financial regulation from Washington, D.C. He has also written two books about advanced computerized trading: Dark Pools ...

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