In 1999, the L.A. Times asked dozens of writers to look back at the prior century and share books they considered lost treasures -- books they loved t...
Lena Tabori | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books
Books are beautiful objects, and to me there's nothing more alluring than one produced with all the stops pulled out: on uniquely gorgeous paper and practically ready for the museum glass case.
abcnews.com | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books
Winter Solstice, the first day of winter, the shortest day of the year. Looking for a good book to curl up with, or perhaps some great last-minute Chr...
EW | Stephen King | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
Take it from your Uncle Stevie -- book lovers on your shopping list will thank you for the gift of any of these rockin' reads....
Feministing | Courtney Martin | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
As they say, it's always "too many books, too little time." But the holiday season is a time when a) you often get to slow down and actually devour a ...
Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
There's no good time to go through a break up and the holidays are just about the worst. The last thing you want to do is rub salt into a wound by rea...
The Guardian | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unaccountably never made...
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
2009 has been a fantastic year for kids' picture books, and parents, you'll love them as much as your children do. There's something for everyone: fro...
The New Yorker | James Wood | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books
I was excited, this year, by Lydia Davis's "Collected Stories" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a beautiful collection of original writings. Though Davis is...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books
Some representative books of the 2000s – about fear of the real world and dreams about other worlds, whether the historical past, the unreachabl...
The New Yorker | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books
Reviewers' favorites from 2009....
Posted 12.04.2009 | Books
The Los Angeles Times has joined the ever-growing crowd with its own "Best of 2009" lists -- separate for fiction and non-fiction, 25 books each. The ...
Alexander Nazaryan | Posted 12.05.2009 | Books
No novel better captures the background dread of everyday life these days -- terrorism jitters, credit-default swaps, mutant flu strains -- than Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland".
The New York Times | The NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only. The sublime story collection...
Amelia Gray | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books
Assumptions that the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009 emerged from the hazy cigar smoke of an old boys' club are likely misguided.
The New York Times | The New York Times Book Review | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books
The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy pickin...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
Ever since we posted our first installment of the HuffPost Readers' Picks, we've gotten a flood of further reader recommendations. The feature has bee...
Amazon.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
Amy Hertz at Huffington Post: It's the battle of the "best of" lists, movies, television, and of course books. We've seen Publishers Weekly, now Amazo...
Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Publishers Weekly announced their Top 10 picks for 2009. These are the books that they thought "stood out from the rest." PW admits that they're not "...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
We know that the Huffington Post reader is really smart, and since you're on the Books page, we know that you like to read, so it made sense that when...
Steve Leveen | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
Choose the best book of award-winning fiction of the past 60 years? Impossible! Yes, but let's do it anyway.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books