The new year is finally here, and with it brings the release of a number of books that people can’t wait to get their hands on. There are many highly anticipated novels coming in 2026 – from thrillers ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

Over the past century, there have been countless attempts to assemble a definitive list of essential literature. In recent decades, however, the very idea of a literary canon has become a source of ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

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The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correct a misspelling of Erin Kodicek's name. Get ready to get your tissues out – Amazon’s best books of the year list is full of heartfelt weepers that will ...

One of the things people appreciate about books, bookstores and libraries is that they provide a reprieve from the day’s news. Mostly. Although I can barely recall the tense, five-week election ...

The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start. By Gilbert Cruz The Essential Octavia Butler She created vivid new worlds to reveal ...

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As one of the longest-running and most beloved comic strips of all time, Peanuts has certainly been reprinted in many forms over the years. But if you're a discerning Snoopy fan, you might want to add ...