This year was a boon for whodunit readers, with great books by Donna Leon, Richard Osman, Louise Penny and more.

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The Grapes of Wrath is one of the best American novels of all time. In 2013, The New Yorker’s Tim Kreider referred to Stoner as “the greatest American novel you’ve never heard of” – and ...

The best thrillers of the year find long-standing series in fine form, as well as newcomers to the genre leaving their ...

Author Barbara Taylor Bradford, best known for her debut novel "A Woman of Substance," has died at age 91. Her books often ...

The American Scholar published two lists of the 100 best American novels from 1770-1985. We've combined the lists and we're asking: which ones have you read? Which books are missing? And which boo ...

One of those ways is reading books by Native and Indigenous authors ... freer future. One of the best horror writers working today takes a Jordan Peele-esque story of four American Indian men who are ...

The impact of war, violence, crime and struggle unite these ten novels. From Bapsi Sidhwa's exploration of partition in Ice Candy Man, to the second civil war of Omar El Akkad's American War ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In ...