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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter (William Morrow) 2. Forever Country by Kathleen Brooks (Laurens Publishing) 3. We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 4.
Thoughts about the afterlife sparked R.F. Kuang's newest novel, 'Katabasis'

Thoughts about the afterlife sparked R.F. Kuang's newest novel, 'Katabasis'

For Rebecca F. Kuang, who has had six bestsellers before the age of 30, an eternal afterlife of leisure scares her more than the idea of going to hell.
Book Review: Wife digs into husband's past and finds unsettling things in 'I Become Her'

Book Review: Wife digs into husband's past and finds unsettling things in 'I Become Her'

Imogene’s first serious love affair ended when she discovered her partner was unfaithful, and this has left the insecure young woman watchful and suspicious.
Book Review: Icelandic detective stars in 'The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer'

Book Review: Icelandic detective stars in 'The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer'

When we last saw Icelandic police detective Helgi Reykdal, he was lying unconscious in a pool of blood after being bashed in the head by his violent alcoholic wife in last fall’s “Death at the Sanatorium.
Book Review: 'The Martians’ by David Baron spins a clever tale about a real craze

Book Review: 'The Martians’ by David Baron spins a clever tale about a real craze

Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious, intelligent human life” on our red neighbor.
Book Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles in short story collection ‘Where Are You Really From’

Book Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles in short story collection ‘Where Are You Really From’

An awkward adolescent girl travels from the United States to visit her grandmother and other relatives in Taipei, where she becomes obsessed by her older girl cousin and the bizarre fantasy of cooking and eating a woman who works in the dumpling stor
Book Review: Renaissance scholar illuminates brief, transgressive life of poet Christopher Marlowe

Book Review: Renaissance scholar illuminates brief, transgressive life of poet Christopher Marlowe

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never heard of him. Except you have.
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out

NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday.
The fall's 10 most anticipated books, from Pynchon to (Priscilla) Presley

The fall's 10 most anticipated books, from Pynchon to (Priscilla) Presley

NEW YORK (AP) — Fall books mean more than literary fiction. The top releases this season range from a fairy tale newly told to memoirs about a famous writer's indomitable mother and life after marriage to a famous rock star.
Fall is books' biggest season. Expect some long-awaited returns

Fall is books' biggest season. Expect some long-awaited returns

NEW YORK (AP) — In the decade since she published her acclaimed debut novel, “The Turner House,” Angela Flournoy has confronted a few delays, welcome and otherwise, en route to completing her second book: her first child, a pandemic, speaking engagem