From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. The latest from the Pulitzer ...

From left to right: "Heated Rivalry," "IT: Welcome to Derry" and "Forever" (Credit: Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max, Netflix, Brooke Palmer/HBO) The book adaptation has been growing steadily in Hollywood for ...

‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year. So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader.

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

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History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...

A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul One book ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

This year’s longlist includes five books by writers who have published short fiction in The New Yorker: Susan Choi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Karen Russell, Bryan Washington, and Joy Williams. Two ...

The author announced the release date and cover of her long-awaited new book, "Woman Down," in an exclusive clip aired on TODAY on Sept. 10. "It is a thriller, probably one of the darkest books I've ...

Here’s how VintageApple.org describes how the Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library came to be: “Nick R. was generous enough to send me his entire vintage Mac programming library to be ...