In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell dissected the phenomena of social epidemics; and in Blink, he discussed the nature of split-second decision-making. In Outliers, Gladwell, the founding father of pop-sociology, ... Read More

The release this year of Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga coincided with the release of the film version of the saga's first book, creating a ... Read More

Joan Aiken (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase) published her first story collection, All You've Ever Wanted, when she was just eighteen. This collection included the first Armitage family stories, stories ... Read More

During the week of Thanksgiving, NPR considers what it means to be American by speaking with three authors - Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Joseph O'Neill - who write about ... Read More

John Adams is an icon of contemporary classical music, whose name is often mentioned alongside other composers similarly rooted in the minimalist movement such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. ... Read More

"As in her previous novels featuring private detective Jackson Brodie – Case Histories and One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson has intertwined what first seem to be many separate stories, ... Read More

O. Henry wrote some 400 short stories in his lifetime and is often credited with popularizing short fiction. Eight years after his death in1910, friends and colleagues established an award ... Read More

André Kertész began a career in photojournalism in 1912, when he was just eighteen years old, and continued to do so until he died in 1985. Kertesz traveled the world, ... Read More

In State by State, editors Matt Weiland, deputy editor of the Paris Review, and Sean Wilsey, editor-at-large for McSweeney's set out to create a book modeled on the WPA state ... Read More

The Last Lecture was born as a speech that professor Randy Pausch gave at Carnegie Mellon University. A beloved professor with a uniquely positive outloook on life, Pausch had been ... Read More

Peter Matthiessen won the National Book Award's fiction category Wednesday night for Shadow Country, a revision of a trilogy of novels he wrote in the 1990s about Florida Everglades sugarcane ... Read More

I found journaling in my early twenties and since that time have vacillated between devotedly keeping a daily written journal, dipping my toes in drawing journals, and mixing the two. ... Read More

Ah, the leaves are dropping and with them temperatures, Halloween has come and gone and Thanksgiving approaches. And with it, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving - the official ... Read More

No Man’s Lands takes us on a journey. In fact, it takes us on a journey that’s so long and arduous and well known that it’s become the namesake of ... Read More

Anita Shreve speaks with The Guardian's Alison Flood about her new novel, Testimony at The Guardian Books Podcast.

J.K. Rowling writes about her favorite scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this extract from The Birthday Book, a collection published by Jonathan Cape marking the 60th ... Read More

Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost is a compelling and multifaceted novel. Following the central mystery of a girl’s disappearance, it invokes the spirit of Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, and Prime ... Read More

In Clyde Edgerton's The Bible Salesman, Preston Clearwater, a criminal, picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible salesman. Clearwater immediately recognizes Henry as just the associate he needs--one ... Read More

Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of Jurassic Park, Prey, and State of Fear, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 66. Michael Crichton was well-known as a novelist, but it ... Read More

David Wroblewski's debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, chosen by Oprah's Book Club in September, is according to John Formy-Duval, "far and away the best debut novel of the ... Read More