Owner Eric Maywar started the Books at Home program to encourage reading and help kids fill their home libraries.

NPR staff share recommendations for non-fiction reading from our Books We Love list: "The War of Art," "Shattered Lands," "Toni at Random" and "Patchwork." ...

Publishers will release as many as 1 million books this year, so good luck summarizing that. But if what I read and loved in 2025 is any indication, writers have ...

Power up with Dog Man: Big Jim Believes from the global #1 bestselling author and award-winning artist Dav Pilkey. With threads of self-awareness, confidence, and integrity, Pilkey masterfully crafts ...

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 ...

Every year, we ask everybody who works at NPR - and I mean everybody - what their favorite books of the year were. We pull this together and present it to you as an interactive guide called Books We ...

Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

The book by Omar El Akkad stems from a viral tweet. A book about Jewish refugees won the young people’s literature award. A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a ...

A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a children’s book about young Iranians helping a Jewish refugee in World War II were two of the big winners at the National ...

CHICAGO – Today, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This monthly column is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. If representations of AI in fiction are ...