To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, a Toni Morrison biography, and a story about a woman sexually attracted to airplanes.

Long before the era of billionaire space races, Kim Stanley Robinson took us to Mars in this daring sci-fi trilogy. These two ...

If you’re after something worth reading on your break this year, 2025 has delivered. From literary heavy-hitters to murder mysteries and music memoirs, the current airport bookshelves offer too much ...