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Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is the inaugural pick for the new Texas Book Club, a collaboration between Texas Monthly magazine and the Texas Book Festival.
The latest pick for Jenna Bush Hager’s Today show book club is Emma Nanami Strenner’s My Other Heart.
Many authors naturally gravitate toward a particular subject matter or genre. Mystery writers may change up their formula but ...
Essie Chambers has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, given annually to an emerging African American fiction writer, for her debut novel, Swift River.
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The Library of Congress revealed the lineup for its National Book Festival, with more than 90 authors scheduled to take part in the annual event in Washington, D.C.
Tenacious has always lived up to her name, whether walking to a waterfall when her legs are tired or climbing to the “tippy-top of the tire swing.” And now she’s determined to ride her bike in the ...
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In Johnson’s historical novel set in 16th-century England, a popular musician in King Henry VIII’s court becomes dangerously caught in a thicket of political intrigue.
The New York–based Center for Fiction announced that Haruki Murakami is the winner of its 2025 Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award, given to “a writer who, through their exceptional body of work, ...
Jenna Bush Hager’s latest Today show book club selection is The Names by Florence Knapp.
The Nobel Prize–winning author and psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s death last year was the result of an assisted suicide, the Wall Street Journal reports.