31-08-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com

Completing Our Summer Reading Bucket List

The New York Times Books team put together a Summer Reading Bucket List to help you get out of your literary comfort zone. As summer approaches its end, our team reflects on how they achieved their summer reading goals.
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Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses 
Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses 
Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued
Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued
Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists
Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists
A wine so thick you could write with it. Pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food
A wine so thick you could write with it. Pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food
A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring
A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring
Deliciously Twisted New Thrillers
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word
In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word
A wine so thick you could write with it and pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food
A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring
A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring
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Can You Match These Quotations to the Correct Book?
Can You Match These Quotations to the Correct Book?
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