This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer ...

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Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

We needed speculative fiction more than ever in 2025, a year when the past and the future both breathed down our necks. And this year’s best books more than delivered, dazzling us and keeping us ...