Adrienne Westenfeld

Buying a book for a bookworm is a gamble. What if they already have it? What if the reason they don’t have it is because it’s not their preferred genre? Or, even if what you choose does fall within their preferred genre, they might not be a fan of that author. Best to leave readers to their own devices when it comes to constructing a literary diet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them something wonderful and purposeful to support their favorite pastime. If there’s anything bibliophiles love…

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From the blisteringly contemporary to the classic, the lighthearted to the weighty, here are our favourite short novels to get lost in

From the blisteringly contemporary to the classic, the lighthearted to the weighty, here are our favorite short novels to get lost in.

Now that "Rings of Power" has returned for season 2, it's time to do your homework.

The season’s best titles will take you to the bleeding edge of imagination, where glam-rock aliens, wacky alligators, and haunted houses abound.

Welcome back to another year in books, dear reader. Just a quarter of the way through 2024, we’re already enjoying an embarrassment of literary riches—and now, we’re here to spread the gospel about our favorites. The best books of the year (so far) are taking us to dazzling new frontiers. In the fiction landscape, a spate of new novels offer visions of humanity from unlikely narrators, including robots, aliens, and the undead. Meanwhile, it’s shaping up to be an outstanding year for memoirs; new…

When you want to learn about something, chances are the first thing you do is go running to Google. But there’s another way to live and to learn—a better way, we’d argue. It’s called cracking open a book. To make sense of an ever-changing world, we recommend skipping Dr. Google and going straight to the experts. Do you want to expand your knowledge about hot-button issues like wealth inequality, algorithmic overload, and conservative culture wars? There’s a book for that. Or maybe you’re more of…

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See if your favorites made our expanded list.