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Time flies when you’re reading a good book. These twenty titles are turning the big 1-0 in 2015, and many of them are still as popular now as they were upon their initial publication. Some became literary phenomenon’s, many became films, but all of them have their...

What a year it’s been for Science Fiction and Fantasy! While some books transported us to fantastical lands beyond our wildest imagination, others proved that sometimes the most spellbinding stories are the ones closest to home. From the craggy landscape of the red planet to the powerful kingdom...

There used to be a time when horror was restricted to the month of October. You were safe from vampires when the sun was shining in the summer. The zombies weren’t able to break through the frozen ground in the winter. And the things that went bump in...

2014 was the year of the woman. With Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran empowering the girl-growing-up, Sophia Amoruso and Amy Poehler showing us how to be a #GIRLBOSS who says Yes Please, and a spate of fabulous first-time female authors leaving their mark—there was no shortage of excellent...

Literary adaptations produce multiple nominees for this year’s Golden Globes! Well, readers, awards season is officially upon us, and this morning the nominations for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards were officially announced. Among them, as usual, were quite a few films based on bestselling novels. So while the...

Books to keep you (and your teens) reading this holiday season Maggie Stiefvater knows a thing or two about inspiring teenagers to read. While she may look more like the high school audience she writes for than their parents, The Wolves of Mercy Falls author has been...

5 Questions with author James Frey It all started with a simple goal: create an “experience.” After all is said and done however Endgame, the much anticipated new YA series by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton, may be the most ambitious multimedia experiment ever attempted in publishing. Based...

Inspired by the real-life tale of folk legend Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who disguised herself as “Lyons Wakeman” and enlisted with the Union Army during the civil war, NEVERHOME is Laird Hunt’s enthralling return to historical fiction. We caught up with the burgeoning superstar to talk about fictionalizing history...

There are restaurants these days that serve something they call the pairing menu. Wines and food are linked so that one gets the right white wine with the fish and a suitably robust red wine with the meat. It gets more subtle than that, of course, but...

In a medium defined by its hyper-nichification, Bryan Lee O’Malley is one of the few graphic novelists to have truly found a place in the mainstream. Born in London, Ontario, but raised on Japanese manga and indie rock, the L.A. based O’Malley defined a generation with his Scott...