The best of this year's fiction features characters who, like so many, feel like they don't belong anywhere, even when ...

The story he tells—drawing on new archeological findings, a fresh reading of eighteenth-century visitors’ accounts, and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you agree or disagree with the inclusions (and, yes, exclusions), one thing remains true after 30 go-rounds: There's ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're on BookTok at all, you know about the Legendborn series. It's the third book in the series that combines the legend of ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

Young Adult fiction offers cross-generational appeal, making it a safe bet for gifts when recipients’ exact preferences are unknown Cozy fantasy and romance expansions represent the fastest-growing ...

It’s as hard to write a page-turner as it is to write fiction that brings fresh perspective and meaning to the world.

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...