Books

As the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the multi-award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming and Beneath a Meth Moon, Jacqueline Woodson knows her way around a good book. Now, the novelist has recommended 38 books for you to…

On Tuesday, Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Famer Cokie Roberts died at the age of 75, due to complications from breast cancer. The lauded broadcast journalist left behind a series of books on American history and family life that will last for…

Book awards season is in full swing, and readers couldn't be happier. The National Book Foundation is announcing its nominees for five awards — Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature — all week. And another…

If you're starting to panic about all of those reading goals you have left to achieve in the last hundred days of the year, I totally feel you. Every January I get super excited by a bookish blank slate, a new yearly reading challenge, and add tons…

For horror fans who think they've read it all, we've got a list of 21 lesser-known horror novels you should aim to discover this season. It has every kind of scare, from the gory to the macabre, and each book is practically waiting on you to pick it…

Juliet Takes A Breath is a book that will always find you at the perfect time. Gabby Rivera's debut young adult novel is a stunning coming-of-age story about teenaged Juliet Milagros Palante, who has just come out to her conservative Puerto Rican…

If you're a YA fan looking for the next big read, your search stops here. The 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature longlist is comprised of 10 must-read young adult novels, story collections, poems, and memoirs. If you dig YA,…

Unless you've been off the internet entirely for the last decade, you're aware that RuPaul's Drag Race brought drag to the front and center of pop culture. But with his new book, Drag: The Complete Story, writer and fashion commentator Simon Doonan…

The first time I went across, I was a senior in high school. We had all borrowed outfits from our one friend who had going-out clothes, so we looked like a string of paper dolls: four slips of girls in tight black tops and low-slung jeans.…