To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Children's author Jean Van Leeuwen, known for a broad oeuvre including her beginning-reader stories following the adventures ...

Was there a better way to spend the past decade than on a maddening, deadly, brain-scrambling search for gold hidden ...

Looking for good middle grade books featuring Hispanic and Latinx characters ... This well-written, beautiful historical fiction story will stay with you so you can remember what it’s like for ...

If a class were ever taught about Colson Whitehead, the acclaimed author says it would be titled “The Sorrow and the Pain.” ...

If you loved "Hidden Figures" and "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," check out these other great books on women doing ...

Some books make you think. Others make you laugh. But the ones that truly stay with you? They make you feel—deeply, intensely, and sometimes painfully. Historical fiction is known for doing just ...

Kristina Shuey is a former analyst for the state of Minnesota who turned to writing as a hobby while raising her young ...

PORTAGE, MI -- Starting next school year, the Portage Public Schools curriculum for sixth graders will include a lesson about pornography. The lesson is part of a course in the district’s human ...

In our survey about the best books since 1996, a number of authors split the vote — among their own titles. Here are 10 ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — More than two dozen sixth graders from Pimlico Elementary/Middle School became "medical detectives" at Sinai Hospital on Tuesday morning. Dressed in white lab coats ...

Our critic on the month’s best releases. Credit...Caroline Gamon Supported by By Alida Becker Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the National ...