In 1935, Ernest Hemingway revealed some of his favorite books in Esquire magazine. We found it via Jason Kottke's site, and among the titles, which in...

I made this reading list for my granddaughter Meggie, and wanted to share it with you too, though I could easily add at least another ten to this list.

We believe a favorite book can say boatloads about a person's character. It can make them look hot, or even make them undateable, although the latter ...

Even if you prefer The Hunger Games to the latest management tome, summer is the perfect time for federal leaders to check out some books that offer new leadership ideas, tools or techniques.

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, ...

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...

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 "...

How did reading get to be such a faster-pussycat-hurry-up activity? We listen to favorite songs over and over without apology or distraction. They make us feel good, no explanation necessary. But with books, there's this myth that it takes a "long time".

Earlier today, Penguin Books asked their Twitter followers to tweet their favorite quote from a book. People took to the site with the hashtag #bookqu...

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.

-- HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "A Dance With Dragons" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)...

Inspired by a Shelf Awareness blog post on Harry Potter, Random House tweeted, "Name a book you didn't want to end and haven't finished," with the has...

From George Orwell to Patricia Highsmith, 10 great books written by pseudonymous authors. Carmela Ciuraru, author of Nom de Plume: A Secret History of...

A great book happens when I pick up a book and can't put it down again; when I cannot suppress the sighs upon finishing it; when I cannot wait to tell everyone I know: read this book! But how to pick a favorite?

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...

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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 ...

Over the last two days, Salon's Laura Miller has revealed her list of the most memorable fiction and nonfiction books of the year. (Her picks included...

All of this raises a number of rather disquieting existential questions. Does this mean, when a fellow book lover gives you a book you hate, the perso...

For the past week, in honor of Independence Day, we've been celebrating the best of the independents in the book world -- the independent bookstores, ...

Nick Clegg's article in the Guardian, naming Samuel Beckett as a writer who inspired him, has caused a ripple of bemused comment outside the UK, parti...

I woke up thinking about Ron Hansen's majestic, mournful book "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." The book had gotten into m...

Dreading going home for the holidays? So are a lot of people, and we imagine some of these writers wouldn't be looking forward to it either. Here ...

[I]t comes as no surprise to me that when surveyed by Mills and Boon, the nation's readers voted Charlotte Bronte's Mr Rochester the most romantic cha...