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Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday With The...

Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen! The celebrated novelist was born on December 16th, 1775 and, despite having published only half a dozen books, has inspired hundreds of retellings, spinoffs, continuations and nonfiction writings. Celebrate...

Ken Burns and Gregory C. Ward Recommend Great B...

In The American Revolution: An Intimate History, prolific historians Ken Burns and Gregory C. Ward team up to take us deeper into the American Revolution than ever before, spotlighting the...

SenLinYu Recommends Great Books for Holiday Gif...

All hope seems lost for Helena, a prisoner of war grappling with a dreary world of death and dark magic — and an inexplicable case of amnesia. Epic and engrossing,...

Jeff Kinney Recommends Great Books for Holiday ...

The only way to get the birthday party you want is to throw it yourself… right? In Partypooper by Jeff Kinney — the 20th installment in the hilarious Diary of...

Tracy Deonn Recommends Great Books for Holiday ...

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn, book three in the bestselling Legendborn Cycle, takes us deeper into Bree’s flight from her destiny where the stakes have never been higher. Read on for...

Katie Yee Recommends Great Books for Holiday Gi...

When life throws her lemons, one woman chooses to find humor in heartbreak. Witty, full of heart and beautiful poetic prose — with a side of Chinese folklore — Maggie;...