The winners of the 2025 National Book Awards were announced Wednesday evening at a ceremony in New York hosted by Emmy Award–winning actor and author Jeff Hiller with musical pe ...

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the 2025 Giller Prize, given annually to an outstanding work of Canadian fiction, for her novel, Pick a Color. Thammavongsa’s novel, published in ...

Writing fan fiction is a lot less taboo than it used to be.  Setting aside teenagers who write fan fiction for their ...

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Thomas King, the author whose books often focus on Native American themes, has revealed that he is not, as he previously thought, part Cherokee.

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The prolific novelist and the online bookseller have established the James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize, which will honor debut English-language books. The first award will go to a book published ...

Maggie O’Farrell has a new novel coming in 2026, People magazine reports. Knopf will publish the Northern Irish author’s Land next spring. The press describes the book as “a soaring historical novel ...

Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. Bill Gates has shared his 2025 holiday reading list.

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Walter Isaacson stopped by the Today show to discuss his latest book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.

In an interview with Elle, novelist Colleen Hoover said that she is “confused” by her massive literary success.