"It made me love learning, which is the greatest gift I possibly could have received."

This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?

True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.

Are you feeling like you need a kick in your life? Like an Instant Boost to your Self Confidence and behavior? if yes, then this post is for you only. And even if ‘No’ is your answer, then reading books doesn’t do any harm to you. Especially when we are talking about Best Motivational Books of all time. Reading fiction is cool, but when it comes to life-changing books we always tend to move towards motivational ones. Isn’t it true?

Why am I here? How can I live a good life? What does it mean to have a mind and be a person? Since the days of antiquity, philosophers have puzzled over fundamental questions like these that sit at the very heart of our lived experience and interactions with the world. Solving these problems is not merely about increasing our knowledge of the world, to fill up academic textbooks and sit on library shelves, but to impart wisdom to aid us as we navigate through life's uncertainties and its profoundest mysteries.

One key to being a good writer is to always keep reading—and that doesn't change after you've been published.

Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers.

It’s a punitive and profit-driven move that will rob our culture of the contributions of prison intellectuals

Running a business, being a writer, living a full life — these things depend on the knowledge that we can gain and use. What we call following our gut, is really us being subconsciously guided by every piece of information we’ve ever consumed, shaping our instincts and ideas and forming us.

Readers around the world cooed last month when a Welsh bookseller announced he was giving away his shop to a regular customer. It was a lovely story, but as an ex-bookseller of five years, I could only dwell on the harsh realities this unsuspecting man would inherit: slow days, stocktaking and, unavoidably, a few regular oddballs.

When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age.

To Kill a Mockingbird has been a literary right of passage for more than half a century, credited with awakening thousands of teenagers to the rewards of reading.

British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone People.

A perfect relationship is tough to find. No one’s perfect, so even the very best of intentions are not usually enough to have a couple together. In case your relationship is on unstable ground, or you have recently broken up, you may then want to consider books on relationships. They’re one of the most popular …

A controversial piece by Jian Ghomeshi in the New York Review of Books cost editor Ian Buruma his job and sparked a debate about free speech

About a quarter of American adults (24%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form. Who are these non-book readers?

Unless you're super into typography or have a hand-lettering hobby, you will likely struggle to tell which of the above shapes of the lowercase 'G' is correct.

Schools usually focus on teaching comprehension skills instead of general knowledge—even though education researchers know better.

John Corcoran graduated from university and became a teacher for 17 years - but he had an extraordinary secret.

Reading aloud and playing imaginative games may help children deal with emotions like anger and sadness, researchers say.

Obviously, there needs to be a standard. But do we really want to leave it to science?

You’ve heard of speed reading – there’s a whole mini-industry of books and apps built around it. Increasing your reading speed has obvious benefits, but what happens when you slow it down?

Ever wanted to explore Treasure Island or pretend to be Robinson Crusoe? Minecraft is now being used to create an ‘immersive experience’ to engage reluctant readers – we see how it plays out

Five offbeat, inventive stories in one wild mansion. Read Common Sense Media's Jane, Unlimited review, age rating, and parents guide. Teen fiction, includes, mystery, fantasy, science fiction and some.

“Transportation” — or the act of losing yourself in a book — makes you more empathetic, more creative and (hello!) it’s an escape.

At the end of “On Writing” Stephen King lists 150+ books he believes are worth reading. Check out the list and let me know whether or not you agree with his choices.

Comic books don’t come much more acclaimed than Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. The original series ran for 75 issues between 1989 and 1996, landed on the New York Times Bestseller List, and is still widely regarded as one of the greatest works ever published in the medium. Now, Gaiman is overseeing a revival: four new comic-book series published under the banner The Sandman Universe, with the first issue set to arrive next week.

Official Author Website Buy the book HERE OFFICIAL BLURB: Humans, orcs, mages, elves, and dwarves all jostle for success and surviv...

New device tracks a runner's movements to adjust text that's being read.

A shocking tale of sexual assault in the Digital Age

Stephen King, the prolific and best-selling patriarch of the horror novel, has used a rare interview to express disdain for modern pretenders to his title, dismissing the Twilight franchise as "tweenager porn" and calling The Hunger Games dull and derivative.

It comes as no surprise that Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, possessed a sweet tooth. Having dazzled young readers with visions of Cavity-Filling Caramels, Everlasting Gobstoppers, and snozzberry-flavored wallpaper, Dahl's candy of choice was the more pedestrian Kit-Kat bar.

Readers of fiction (romance more so than science fiction, suspense, or domestic) were better at picking up emotion in the eyes of others.

The good news: According to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts, more than half of American adults read books for pleasure in 2012. The bad news is that the percentage of adults reading works of literature -- in the NEA's definition, novels, short stories, poetry or plays -- has declined since 2008, returning to 2002 lows.

Acclaimed British novelist William Boyd has the impossible task of conjuring up a new Bond novel with Solo, but can his effort match up to Ian Fleming’s creation? Robert McCrum wonders.