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.

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.

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

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.

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...

Some great advice, completely out of context.

David Fincher’s Netflix series Mindhunter pushed all the right buttons. It’s a classy, psychology-driven throwback drama series with great acting and no small amount of grizzly murder. What could be an exploitative parade of serial killer name drops never feels cheap and gives a great look into the early days of psychological profiling. While we wait for Season Two, here are some books that should sate the true crime or left-field murder mystery fans in all of us.

It may sound like something out of science-fiction, but it's true: More Firefly stories are on the way. EW can exclusively report…

“Homefront Warriors” is a revealing account of what it is like for those who stay behind as their soldier goes off to fight.

Business school is a combination of curriculum, network and case studies. This alternative way to gain a similar advantage as an MBA from a top 10 school. It's a list of great books, advice on building a network and case studies of building a business.

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.

The joys and embarrassments of Cleary’s characters—of Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby—helped so many of us understand who we are and what the world is.

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.

Little has changed in the way of tactile reading and writing since Louis Braille published his braille system in 1829. But ELIA has big plans.

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

The books interview: A literary star in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk is hotly tipped to win the Man Booker international prize. She talks about facing controversy at home and the armed bodyguards hired to protect her

Three new books for bibliophiles dig into the hidden human side of book collections.

Earl Grey Editing reviews The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross.

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

There is a good place to begin when thinking about the nature of time? In the Confessions, Augustine suggested that time — at least as we experience it — is nothing other than the tension of consciousness itself. The richness of the problem of time is precisely that we can start addressing it from all sorts of places. ‘Time’ is the single most used noun in the English language. It has a multiplicity of meanings.

The world is evolving and with time, we need to change ourselves to stay on course. Smartphones were once a part of sci-fi movies, came...

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.