Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way ...

This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote back to tell us about the ...

'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,' 'Malibu Rising' and more are being turned into movies and TV shows Ballantine Books; Emma McIntyre/Getty ; Atria Books Taylor Jenkins Reid has published nine books ...

On Monday, NPR launched its end-of-the-year books guide. But Books We Love isn't a "top 10" list. Instead, it's more that 380 books that were personally recommended by members of the NPR staff. If you ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

My favorite books fall into one of two categories: novels that immerse me in another world, or nonfiction works that transform how I see our world. When I read the latter, I share what I learned from ...

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 ...

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things,” mused author Henry Miller in his 1957 memoir Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. It’s true: Travel has the ...