Everybody’s talking about romance: Romance/fantasy books fly off shelves, huge networks of BookTok influencers focus mainly on romance, romance is getting people to read who haven’t picked up a book ...

Many authors naturally gravitate toward a particular subject matter or genre. Mystery writers may change up their formula but ...

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Isabel (Belly) struggles to regain her equilibrium after the death of her mother’s best friend Susannah in this sequel to The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009).

The rueful, fate-wracked tale of 26 men who tried to cross into the US from Mexico but chose the wrong time, place, and guide.

Having produced an international bestseller about human origins (Sapiens, 2015, etc.) and avoided the sophomore jinx writing about our destiny (Homo Deus, 2017), Harari (History/Hebrew Univ. of ...

Harry Hole is pulled back home from La-La Land to investigate a series of killings for a most unexpected reason.

Thien Pham’s graphic memoir is so much more than a refugee story. While he depicts plenty of struggle in the pages of Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam (First Second, June 20), it’s ...

Sunny has just been named the new editor-in-chief of the storied music magazine Aural —the first Black person and woman to hold the position—when a scoop falls into her lap. It’s 2015, and Opal Jewel, ...

Rob Franklin describes his debut novel as his “full-minded obsession” for the past four-and-a-half years. He began the book in 2020, while studying at New York University for a Master of Fine Arts ...

A native of rural Michigan, Callan Wink moved, 20-odd years ago, to more rural country still: Montana’s Yellowstone River valley. The trout-rich river passes by the small town of Livingston, a place ...

In Temple Alley Summer (Restless Books, July 6) by Sachiko Kashiwaba, translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa, and illustrated by Miho Satake, fifth grader Kazu needs to pick a summer vacation project for ...