Here are the can’t-miss books to buy, gift, and read before the year is out.

As an author whose own books never find their way to supermarket shelves, it’s frustrating work – but it puts food on my family’s table

The long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution.

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The war over children's books is depressing. As a reset, we asked parents from across the political spectrum to tell us which books they consider essential.

Holiday gift guide with the best business books to gift leaders and entrepreneurs curated by Virtual Gurus staff.

Novelists like Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood and Stephen King shared discouraging moments in their career after debut author Chelsea Banning tweeted that only two people came to her book signing.

Indie bookshops across the state are embracing change, to thrive and stay alive. But a lot depends on the upcoming holiday season.

Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks can immerse one deeper in the writer’s world

In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screwups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.

Kristin Cashore, author of the Graceling series and "Jane Unlimited"

A movie or TV series needs to pack in a LOT of action. A slow-paced, emotional tale might not adapt to film so easily. Even if you wrote a fast-paced action-adventure, you will have to adapt your thinking as much as adapting your manuscript.

Even as TV and streaming services are snapping up video game IP, their popularity in the literary world is waning.

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover for the Paris Hilton's upcoming book, which chronicles her rebellious youth, the abuse she claims to have endured and her rise to global superstardom.

Not every book can be a thriller or a heartbreaker. But yours can. It is a superb way to stand out from the crowd – to produce a book that stands head and shoulders above other books in your field. Keep them reading, pull at their emotions, and your book is more likely to make its point.

Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s new book reveals the tricks behind ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ – how big corporations use low prices to lock in users and creators, while locking out real competition.

Despite bricks-and-mortar bookshops being closed for much of 2020, over 200 million print books were sold in that year – the highest number since 2012.

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.

This Halloween, reading some of the foundational American scary stories can help us shiver along with the spookiest sides of society and self alike.