Alex Haley was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the novel, Roots, which was based on his family's history of ...

Though its target audience is younger teens, anyone who has an interest in history or conspiracies can find it appealing.

Even if you’re not a bookworm, you may find that listening to an audiobook is the perfect way to pass the time. While you can ...

The "Percy Jackson" series by Rick Riordan will return to TV screens this year. If you can't wait for Season 2, read one of these similar books.

These books are short and easy to read but pack an outsized emotional punch. Courtesy the publishers The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we ...

A Turn to Reality: Nnedi Okorafor, an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer, explores a traumatic event in her most autobiographical novel yet. The Book Review Podcast: Each week ...

Book number three in the special series was Reflections From The Home Team: Reframing The Curve Ball Life Pitches Our Way. Now, Dave Welter has released his 4th book in the series, Reflections ...

Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Melanin (HarperCollins) by Jeet Thayil is a novel of many forms by the Booker-shortlisted writer, who most recently edited the Penguin Book of Indian Poets. It is a “documentary novel which traverses ...

The conversation is so persistent that writer Jason Diamond declared in GQ back in August, with some resignation, “We’re Doing ‘Men Don’t Read Books’ Discourse Again.” Reading fiction ...

They’re like trained animals.” Mr. Howard, who starred as the grade-school-age scamp Opie on “The Andy Griffith Show,” exempted himself from the generalization—his father introduced him ...

I did the unthinkable to a grade-grubbing rule follower like myself and resorted to the CliffsNotes. Which books got you hooked on crime fiction? As a very young reader, I adored Encyclopedia ...