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It's hard to believe that spring break is right around the corner. Whether you’re headed to the beach, planning a quiet ...

Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New York City, ...

From fresh takes on literary classics to hyped-up series based on popular recent books, there are a bunch of new shows based ...

Publishing houses receive thousands of manuscripts every year, yet some of the most celebrated works in literary history were initially rejected, sometimes dozens of times. The path from manuscript to ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. See this month's picks for the buzziest novels, memoirs and more Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she ...

In 1933, James Joyce’s landmark novel Ulysses faced a pivotal obscenity trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, with Judge John Munro Woolsey ultimately ruling ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Our favorite new winter reads — including fiction, thrillers and celebrity memoirs Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at ...

NEW CITY, N.Y., Feb. 25, 2026 / PRZen / Lumera Publishing is emerging as the best book publishing company for aspiring ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

Stephen King's "Never Flinch" is one of the best beach reads for summer 2025, featuring recurring King character Holly Gibney. Summer is for going to the beach, hitting the pool and soaking up the sun ...

Here, the top 10 nonfiction books of 2024. In his memoir, actor and producer Griffin Dunne offers an inside look at his ...