Selecting the greatest books ever published isn't easy, but classics like Frankenstein, Dune, and The Count of Monte Cristo ...

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Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

India, April 26 -- Fiction books continue to dominate global reading trends in 2026, with readers actively searching for emotional stories, psychological thrillers, fantasy worlds, and powerful ...

One of my most anticipated books of the year is out this month: a collection of short stories set in the post-apocalyptic devastation of Stephen King’s The Stand. I love a good end-times story, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From bestselling author Chanel Cleeton comes a page-turning tale that launches readers into the heart of the 1960s Space Race with ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

Classic books like The Stand, I Am Legend, and Lucifer's Hammer are all up there among the very best works of ...

Today would have been Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday. An icon known for her talent, blonde hair and sensuality, Monroe was a star on screen in the 1950s and early 1960s. And since her death in 1962, ...

I am excited about this book: M. John Harrison is a really classy writer, winner of all sorts of awards, and his latest novel sounds right up my street. It’s set in a future years after an obscure ...