Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly ...

From Scavengers Reign to Star Trek and Star Wars, the io9 crew looks back on the year's dearly departed characters and shows.

science and big business of looking ahead. This year saw a variety of novels on the New York Times best-sellers list, including the 10 titles lurking in this very short story. In his books about ...

The End of Trauma. George Bonanno’s 2021 book serves up a controversial take, backed by extensive data, that horrible ...

Here’s how it works. I used to find the idea of “creepy clown horror movies” as a subgenre kind of odd because people in white makeup, big red noses, ridiculous wigs, and colorful baggy ...

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November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time. The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle ...

Sport fans: we have your Christmas sorted. Roger Alton has picked out the best sport books of 2024 ranging from the scientific way to score a penalty to the heartfelt memoir of Sir Chris Hoy.