Consider this bookish roundup the ultimate guide to leveling up your giftee's reading experience—you can also call it my personal wish list, ha!

Reading app Libby has released their list of the best books of 2025 — see the top 20 titles here, including books by authors ...

Don't let 2025 end without finishing your New Year's resolution to read more. Check out these short books from fiction to ...

The good news: Our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list showed surprising affection for works in translation. But where are Sally Rooney, Ayad Akhtar and others “explaining how we live now”? The ...

Among the many entertaining, delightful, poignant, and treasured new works of fiction and nonfiction that were published this ...

A year ago, I started reading again. I say “again” because, like the countless friends and colleagues I’ve spoken to who have also found themselves swept up in the reading renaissance that’s currently ...

Ah, Anna Karenina. Lusty love affair or best romance of all time? Most critics pin it as one of most iconic literary love stories, and for good reason. Leo Tolstoy’s sweeping Russian tale of ...

I research and write about happiness, so every year before Jan. 1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With reliable frequency, people tell me, “I want to read more.” Perhaps ...

A couple of weeks ago, the Norfolk Public Library held its annual book sale. Did I attend? Of course I did. Did I buy any books? Well, that’s a silly ...

When was the last time you read a book? According to a new NPR/Ipsos poll, reading is something a majority of Americans enjoy, and want to get better at. But it's nowhere near a top priority. The ...