Leah Price is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is a Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book. She has written essays on old and new media for The New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The Boston Globe.

Her most recent book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books The History and Future of Reading, won the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award in 2020.