By Amanda Hess Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club. In their ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the ...

The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84. When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously ... A love story, a ...

Two new works read more like fan fiction set in the extended Murakami universe than the thrillingly strange novels he’s ...

In “Nationalism: A World History,” Eric Storm examines how nations became the dominant form of political organization of our era.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Roger Lewis explores the historical injustices done to women throughout the Ancient history in Joan Smith's new book. The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson were some of the ...

About Best Books: Every year the librarians and staff on our Best Books committees read thousands of titles to select noteworthy new books for readers of all ages. Find out more, discover which titles ...

But who is Murakami? The easy answer is that Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist. More than that, Murakami is perhaps the ...