Amal El-Mohtar

Columnist, New York Times Books at The New York Times

Wrote half of Time War. Oracle of Buses. Hugo, Nebula, Locus winner. @nytimesbooks columnist. Leaps wide oceans with irregular bounds. She/Her. Agent: @dongwon

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What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers

2 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Amal El-Mohtar |Louise Penny |Mark Carney |Carol Off

What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers | CBC Books LoadedBooksHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 30-April 5, 2025. Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 30-April 5, 2025. Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores.
What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers

3 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Amal El-Mohtar |Louise Penny |Mark Carney |Carol Off

BooksHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 22-29, 2025. CBC Books · Posted: Apr 02, 2025 1:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes agoHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 22-29, 2025. This week, all five Canada Reads 2025 books are on the list.
What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers

3 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Louise Penny |Amal El-Mohtar |Mark Carney |Carol Off

BooksHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 15-22, 2025. This week, all five Canada Reads 2025 books are on the list. CBC Books · Posted: Mar 27, 2025 11:11 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes agoHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 15-22, 2025. This week, all five Canada Reads 2025 books are on the list.
March's Best Book Club Books

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Laila Lalami |Amal El-Mohtar |Nicole Cuffy |Erica Ezeifedi

Usually, I do a roundup of some of the most notable book club-friendly books coming out each month at the beginning of the month, but I’m switching things up a bit for March. I thought that this roundup could be more reflective than prescient, and it’s a little more convenient for readers since all the books should be out. The books below are ones that I’ve heard all manner of book people talk about, recommend, and review, and they’re perfect for book club conversations.
What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers

1 month ago | cbc.ca | Amal El-Mohtar |Emily Austin |Carol Off |David Robertson

What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers | CBC Books LoadedBooksHere are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 1-8, 2025. This week, all five contending Canada Reads 2025 books are on the list. Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 1-8, 2025. This week, all five contending Canada Reads 2025 books are on the list.
THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar Read by Gem Carmella | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

1 month ago | audiofilemagazine.com | Amal El-Mohtar

by | Read by Gem Carmella Gem Carmella narrates a magical novella inspired by traditional ballads. Sisters Esther and Ysabel use their musical talents to tend the enchanted willow their family has honored for generations. When an unwanted suitor appears, everything they love is suddenly at risk.
16 new fantasy and science fiction books to read in March 2025

1 month ago | winteriscoming.net | Daniel Roman |Amal El-Mohtar |M. R. Carey |Nicholas Binge

From epic fantasy to cozy and comedic sci-fi, new installments in long-running series and debut novels that start fresh adventures, March is jam-packed with new fantasy and science fiction books.
The buzziest, boldest debut novels of 2025

2 months ago | audible.com | Haley Hill |Emily Smith |Karissa Chen |Amal El-Mohtar

First-time novelists never fail to deliver some of our favorite stories of the year, tackling bold and timely themes with the boundless momentum of rising literary stars. The latest slate from emerging storytellers dazzles across genres, showcasing the beauty of language through bright and witty banter, tender plot twists, and inventive prose that, at times, has narrators performing literal feats of oral acrobatics.
The March 2025 Indie Next List Preview

2 months ago | bookweb.org | Amal El-Mohtar |Karen Russell |Eric Puchner |T. Kingfisher

Feb 05 2025 The March 2025 Indie Next List Preview Printer-friendly versionHere are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the March 2025 Indie Next List flier. The March title list is also viewable as a collection on Edelweiss and on the Indie Next List page as an Excel file alongside PDFs for the month’s flier and shelf-talker templates.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2024

Dec 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Amal El-Mohtar

Of the many great books I read this year, the following 10 have stayed with me, undergirded my thoughts as I go about my days and provoked excellent, chewy conversations about craft and pleasure, empire and resistance. While I'm a little haunted by the violence publishers seem to be doing to the very concept of a series - claiming sequels are stand-alones, while insufficiently supporting and labeling the parts of actual series - I hope you find something to enjoy among these fantastic works.