This year’s standout novels offered a mix of brains and fun, with side-helpings of sex, God and rural Australia. Read on for ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

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Harris, the author of numerous works of historical fiction including “Fatherland” and “An Officer and a Spy,” sets his latest ...

Towles chalked it up to men being “out of the habit” of reading fiction, explaining, “We know statistically that men are less ...

The author of “Clockers” and “Freedomland” returns with the story of an East Harlem neighborhood in the wake of a catastrophe ...