Mac Barnett, the children’s author and national ambassador for young people’s literature, is under fire for remarks in his new book, including a line in which he says that the vast majority of ...

Last year, McFadden’s 2022 novel, The Housemaid, was adapted into a film directed by Paul Feig, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. A sequel to that film, based on McFadden’s The Housemaid’s ...

Oprah Winfrey has selected Douglas Stuart’s John of John as the latest pick for her popular book club. Stuart’s novel, published Tuesday by Grove, follows John-Calum Macleod, ...

The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, with Jill Lepore, Daniel Kraus, and Yiyun Li among the authors whose work was honored for achievement in literature.

Here are four new productions based on novels by Lauren Wiesberger, William Golding, Victor LaValle, and Tom Clancy.

Rebecca Yarros will return to straight-up romance in a novel coming later this year—no dragons in sight. Amazon imprint Montlake will publish the bestselling author’s Peculiar Stars in the fall, ...

Robert Crais won the best novel award for The Big Empty, his 20th book featuring Los Angeles detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called it a “potent and ...

Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry is getting a film adaptation starring Richard Gere, Deadline reports. Halliday’s novel, published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster, is composed of two nov ...

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The New York Times released a list of the best books of the year so far. “We’re a third of the way through 2026 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds o ...

Goldie Hawn stopped by the Today show to discuss her new children’s book. The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose, written by Hawn and Lin Oliver with illustrations by Breanna Chambers, is ...

The adult judges for the Children’s Booker Prize have been announced, and the search for child judges is underway, the Booker Prize Foundation revealed in a news release. The Ch ...