Maybe you will be reading on the beach this summer. (Clichéd, but for a reason.) Maybe you will be in a hammock. (We usually find hammocks to be better in theory than in practice, but they’re ...

Careless People. By Sarah Wynn-Williams. Flatiron Books; 400 pages; $32.99. Macmillan; £22 Sold as “the book Meta doesn’t want you to read”, this memoir is a riveting corporate kiss-and-tell.

8. Notes to John by Joan Didion (Knopf: $32) Diary entries from the famed writer’s journal. 9. Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books: $28) The deeply human story of the ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

A thorough research survey presented as a tautly argued tract, Jonathan Haidt’s book draws a line between two trends—greater levels of adolescent anxiety and the use of smartphones at ...

Research suggests that comprehension is six to eight times better with physical books than e-readers (Altamura, L., Vargas, C., & Salmerón, L., 2023). Though many people find they can read faster ...

Bass’s magnificent book, an account of the post–World War II Tokyo war-crimes trial, encourages a deeper understanding of the Asian experience of war and occupation. His work also sheds light on an ...

Our ten favorite science books of the year covered everything from astronomy to undersea exploration. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz In the past 12 months, record-breaking wildfires burned ...

Start here. Books Times Readers Are Excited About: Thrillers, literary fiction, history, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your summer reading lists.

The National Book Award-winning author of “The Good Lord Bird” sets this exuberant novel in a ramshackle Pennsylvania neighborhood before and during the Great Depression. There, Black and ...

From Jesmyn Ward's 'Let Us Descend' to Barbra Streisand's long-awaited memoir, these are the best new books to read this fall.Art Department These are independent reviews of the products mentioned ...

The Verge presents a list of 40 of the greatest books ever written — books that tell us about technology, business, and the people who make it possible. Picks include works by Ellen Ullman, Neil ...