Step into the magic along the banks of the Sheep River with Krista Phillips’s latest children’s book, The Fort. Based on her ...

Are you aiming to read more books this year? It’s a worthy resolution, given the many mental health benefits that reading ...

A story that began with a rescued dog has grown into a message about perseverance, belief and taking one small step at a time ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book ...

Elton John has more reason than usual to celebrate this Christmas. The British pop-rock legend announced that his classic 1973 holiday tune “Step Into Christmas” has been honored with new sales ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. According to this year's second-annual Everand State of Reading Report, bookworms commonly revisited classic works of fiction in 2025 ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your workplace questions each week for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of SHRM, the world's largest trade association of human resources professionals, and author ...

Susan Rich at Little, Brown has acquired, at auction, Ghost Guild, a supernatural middle grade series by Annie Barrows. The first book, The Lost Three, offers an account of the Maconochie siblings, ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Courtney McCauley opened a new independent bookstore, Twice Read Books & More, in Richmond. The business began as a popular traveling book trailer before expanding into a permanent storefront. In ...

Apple has made a full snapshot of your 2025 reading habits with the Apple Books Year in Review. Here's how to see and share it. It's December, and all your favorite apps are giving you a breakdown of ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...