D.J. Taylor’s new book is part biography and part critical study of the writer behind “The Lord of the Rings.” ...

Every book in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy has an impressive score on the cataloguing site Goodreads, but which ...

Platform Decay, the eighth book in the Murderbot Diaries series, comes out on May 5, so it may seem early for fans to start thinking about the ninth installment in Martha Wells’ series about the ...

It didn’t take long for BookToker Asia Lin to understand that “Wicked,” the book by Gregory Maguire, would be nothing like the musical she had first seen months earlier. “It was the first page,” Lin ...

For years, fans of Kelly Link, one of the finest purveyors of contemporary short fiction, have wondered what the author would be able to do with a full novel — and have eagerly waited for her to ...

Books like The Hobbit and Howl's Moving Castle present a warm and cozy version of fantasy that favors emotion and intimacy ...

The author Nick Medina recommends novels that capture the vibes of beloved scary movies like “The Thing,” “Scream” and more.

What should I read next? If only making that decision were simple: Recommendations abound online and off, but when you’re casting about for a new book, especially if you’re coming off the heels of ...

"Book ban" is one of those headline-ready terms often used by the news media, including NPR, for stories about the surge in book challenges across the U.S. Kasey Meehan, program director of PEN ...

“The book was better.” In any conversation about a film adaptation, someone is bound to say it. But some books were just meant to be adapted, and some adaptations say new and interesting things about ...