Best Books

Since there is an astonishing amount of information out there, I thought it might be fun to share with you items I have noticed, learned or was curious about in the past week.

UPDATE: We have a winner! Feel free to keep telling us your favorite books that aren't on our list below, but the votes have been tallied, and the fin...

We admit, it's difficult to pick the best books of the year, particularly this year, during which it seems there were so many stellar books. However, ...

For those of us who live for the written word, the books we own mean everything. My bookshelves tell my life story. I can probably tell you the conditions under which every book I own was acquired, as well as where I was when I read them.

By Emily Temple For Flavorwire It’s the end of the year, which means every media outlet and talkative friend has been regaling you with a fascina...

Novels and memoirs about the damages of childhood beg to become tear-jerking orgies. What kept me reading was Torres' dry-eyed control over his material. Edited with obsessive care, he hasn't allowed that to happen.

Publishers Weekly released their top books of 2011 on Friday and it was quite an interesting list. According to their staff, the list is compiled of "...

It may be sad that it's the end of summer, but every literature buff knowns that with that end comes all the great fall books. Here are some of our up...

Imagine an industry that sells over three billion products a year across the world. This is not an electronic gadget or a knife that can cut through a soda can, but rather a publishing genre known as the thriller. I am a thriller and crime fiction junkie.

Amazon.ca today announced their annual Best Books of the Year So Far list (http://www.amazon.ca/BestBooks2011). This list represents the top ten best ...

After keen debate at the Guardian's books desk, this is our list of the very best factual writing, organised by category, and then by date. ...

Here's what's on our radar this week--everything from great summer reads to important human rights issues that we thought you'd want to know about. It...

We're deeply fascinated by the evolution of media and the sociocognitive adaptations that go along with it, but perhaps even more so by the intellectu...

It's a wild and varied staff at Huffington Post and the reporters are avid readers. They've got favorites they're in the middle of reading and we thou...

Books on our radar: what's just come out or about to come out that we think you should know about. Some have buzz, some will fly too low, but we wante...

The reporters and editors on the Huffington Post staff are serious book lovers and we wanted to know what they're reading and loving now, hoping that ...

FICTION & POETRY AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE. By David Goodwillie. (Scribner, $25.) A bombing unites a blogger and a beautiful eco-terrorist in this liter...

"A precocious anarchist, at 13 Sherman told me he was going to strip naked, except for a skullcap and an attaché case, then stump into Grodzinski's, ...

Independent presses have been putting out books every bit as good as those published by New York's major houses. They typically don't get the same media attention or space in bookstores, so here are some of the best small press books of the decade.

Still searching for that perfect gift for your brother-in-law or a persnickety client? Coffee-table books might fit the bill, what with that suitable ...

Editor's note: This is the third segment of January Magazine's Best Books of 2010 feature. The first was Books for Children and Young Adults, and the ...

It's that time of year when many publications produce their lists of the best books from 2010. I'm going to embrace the concept of a list and share wi...

Editor's note: this is the second segment of January Magazine's Best Books of 2010 feature. The first was Books for Children and Young Adults, which r...

It's an annual holiday tradition, usually served after a few glasses of wine, but before the turkey is carved: the long, drawn-out debate about curren...