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The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, serves as a deadly template for domestic terrorists, influencing acts of severe violence in America.

The Book of Bill, the first Gravity Falls book for adults, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list and remained popular through the holiday season.

Shohei Ohtani announced the preorder for a new book he wrote titled 'Decoy Saves Opening Day,' featuring his dog Decoy preparing for Opening Day.

Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola captures the tension of encountering old flames, showcasing how love can be transformative yet disruptive for its characters malakai and Kiki.

Data from Gallup and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that Americans are reading fewer books and spending less time reading than ever.

The body lay at the very limit of daylight, the last clear place on the stones before the wood framing in the ancient adit began to peel away from the walls and pile up in moldy heaps.

Banning, and even burning, books that conflict with tightly-held ideology is nothing new. In 1933, student-led book burnings at the University of Berlin spurred a list of government-enforced banned authors.

Briana Loewinsohn presents a semi-autobiographical YA memoir, Raised by Ghosts, highlighting her journey through adolescence, supported primarily by art and close friendships.

Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist known for Gorky Park and Arkady Renko, passed away at age 82, surrounded by loved ones.

The Möbius Book is a hybrid work that is both fiction and non-fiction, asserting itself as a memoir-cum-novel exploring decisions and their repercussions.

Trainspotting's success illustrates a rare literary event where a critically acclaimed, stylistically adventurous book becomes a cultural sensation, selling over a million copies.

Chuck Tingle has evolved from a niche author of parodic gay erotica to a respected horror/technothriller writer, showcasing an inspiring underdog story in publishing.

John Christie, who murdered women and hid them behind the walls of his house at 10, Rillington Place in Notting Hill in the 1940s and 50s.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is a bestselling LitRPG series featuring video game tropes within a fantasy narrative, gaining mainstream popularity and expanding its hardcover editions.

This year's festival promises to deliver a day of literary discussions and presentations from over 200 authors, spanning genres from fiction to nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature.

In her immersive work of nonfiction, A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Haley Cohen Gilliland documents the decades-long struggle to recover children who, during Argentina's Dirty War, were snatched away from detained dissidents.

Spencer Quinn's new book, Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue, features the captivating character of Mrs. Plansky, praised as "a terrific character" by Stephen King.

Girlie's effective moderation at Reeden stems from her stoical capacity for labour, revealing the human cost of navigating a high-stakes tech industry haunted by mental toll and superficial support.

The Goosebumps series remains a favorite for tween readers, delivering suspenseful tales with unexpected endings that leave readers on edge and craving more.

Patricia Highsmith's novels reflect a unique and unsettling perspective on the human psyche, especially in relation to themes of murder and moral ambiguity, captivating readers with their complexity.

Thomas Neurath led Thames & Hudson for over fifty years, merging energy and intellectual rigor to develop its publishing lists while remaining a modest figure shunning publicity.

Chaim Grade described his internal conflict, stating, "The writer inside me is a thoroughly ancient Jew, while the man inside me wants to be thoroughly modern. This is my calamity, plain and simple, a struggle I cannot win." This reflects his complex struggle between traditionalism and modernity, rooted in his observant Lithuanian upbringing and later literary aspirations.

Things Fall Apart is not just a book. It is a mirror, a declaration of identity, and a provocation. It represents the Igbo worldview and African traditions and still challenges us today.

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, a three-volume hardcover collection, is now priced at $84.17, down from $225, during Amazon's Prime Day 2025 deals event.

Archaeologists have conjured vivid portraits of humankind's past from recovered relics, though experimental archaeology captures sounds, smells, and tastes that traditional methods cannot convey.

The fence is secured with Keep-Safes fingernails, Daughter's first teeth, the umbilical cord that once joined them to protect them from intruders.

By the Pond was created from bourbon in eight different warehouses and is well-aged: seven years, one month, and 20 days, offering a sharp and intense taste.

This memento mori is archly juxtaposed with the narrator's breathless infatuation, which feels as if some great transition was occurring inside me, something was aligning, I could actually feel it.

Clanton's illustrations tend toward cartoony; he used watercolors, ink, leaf pressings, stamps, markers and colored pencils. Really anything he could get his hands on.

Mouth opens up some of the space it needs. But by the end of the book, set at Cley nature reserve, bereavement has been neither resolved nor made tenable.

Ken Griffin recommended 'Good to Great,' which outlines the keys to running a business, such as building a good team. The book highlights humility in leadership.

People are not very good at remembering things the way they really happened. If an experience is an article of clothing, then memory is the garment after it's been washed, not according to the instructions, over and over again: the colours fade, the size shrinks, the original, nostalgic scent has long since become the artificial orchid smell of fabric softener.

Durrell's literary output is encapsulated by Mediterranean islands that served as settings where displaced individuals connected amid the remnants of ancient civilizations.