These are the books your favorite authors are most excited to pick up next year Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

By Alexandra Alter and Elisabeth Egan Our critic on November’s best new books. By Sarah Weinman How a Gen X Graphic Novelist Reinvented the Romance Comic To fully understand Charles Burns’s ...

For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse, absorbing grueling testimony about the 2015 massacre at the concert hall and other venues in the city.

People living in a world at war could not know that November 1942 marked the turning point ... Laterculi Alexandrini – a ‘boastful guide book’ to the known world as it was at the time ...

In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

In September 2020, Soulis Auctions of suburban Kansas City knocked down record prices at their headline-making sale of the Richard and Valerie Tucker collection of carnival shooting gallery targets.

In rare diseases, rare mutations have long been thought of as the only contributor. Genetic analyses of people with such conditions now suggest that the effects of common genetic variants can ...

Unfortunately a planned fifth participant, the cultural historian Joseph Horowitz, whose books have shed much light on the 19 th – and 20 th-century America of Ives’s lifetime, was unable to attend.

To honor this history, Oglebay Institute’s Mansion Museum opened a new exhibit titled “The Story of Harness Racing by Currier & Ives.” The West Virginia State Fair Association operated fairgrounds on ...

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 ...

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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.