Which book is best out of this list of literary fiction, mysteries, nonfiction, memoir and more? That’s for you to decide.

When I tallied the contenders for my fiction Biblioracle Book of the Year Awards, I counted 32 contenders. Here are 10.

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

My nonfiction list this year is wildly skewed—half tech dystopia, half mountain mysticism, with a multitude of memoirists weaving through the middle. It feels chaotic, but perhaps it mirrors the ...

Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

Recipients of the so-called “CHIRBy” Awards include Eve L. Ewing, WBEZ’s Adriana Cardona-Maguigad and New York Times ...

Here in Vancouver and the surrounding area, we don’t usually have snow at Christmas. We tend to have snow later in the winter, after the holidays.

Through the massive ebbs and flows of modern media, through the turn of a century, Alternative Press has prevailed. Once a Cleveland-focused fanzine spanning both local news and underground art scenes ...

You all know the story well. The Baltimore Ravens drafted Lamar Jackson with the 32nd selection in the 2018 NFL Draft. A lesser-mentioned part of that story was that the organization landed one of the ...

Artificial intelligence is booming across biopharma, with deployed tech taking aim at the industry’s biggest challenges: the significant risk of failure, high costs and long development timelines. And ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga is a seminal work of fantasy that spawned one of the best film trilogies ever created. Tolkien's story of good vs. evil is built around timeless themes of ...