On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...

Fiction Profits Academy announced a series of new performance milestones this week, including updated consumer ratings and ...

Kinsella’s focus on consumerism, finances and the stresses of modern work made her books highly relatable to readers.

The best fiction and non-fiction books of 2025 - BOOKS OF 2025: Captivating novels, surprising memoirs and tales of deception are to the fore as the year draws to a close and our chief book critic Mar ...

Scientific American’s staffers may spend their days embedded in real-world science discoveries, but their nights are often ...

Whether you’re looking to escape our chaotic present or dive into its roots in the past, this year’s historical novels will amply satisfy. Here are my choices for the 10 best, in alphabetical order.

How do you cope with a blank page? NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Elizabeth McCracken about her new book, "A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction." ...

A lively plot in a literary novel? The worthy works of 2025 revel in storytelling.

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

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 ...

It’s a big day for bookworms: scientists studying how reading fiction affects your brain say the news is very good. In an interview with PsyPost, Lena Wimmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s ...