If you’re looking to dive into a good story, why not check out a series? Some of these might be familiar, but anything you haven’t read is new…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers …
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers …
If (like me) you love to travel and plan every journey around visiting great restaurants, you're probably pretty bummed these days. Arriving r…
The cartoonish names of the main characters (Serenata Terpsichore, Remington Alabaster, Bambi Buffer) in Lionel Shriver's new novel are the fi…
"The Other Bennet Sister" By Janice Hadlow. (Henry Holt, 448 pages, $28.) Jane Austen was most ungenerous to Mary Bennet. The middle of five s…
It's an annual tradition for Bill Gates - Microsoft co-founder, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and avid reader - to rele…
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The title is "Rodham," as in Hillary Rodham (Clinton), but the most vivid character is Trump, as in you-know-who. Curtis Sittenfeld's speculat…
Here's a sampling of legal thrillers on the dark side of the law, some by authors you may recognize and others by lesser-known ones worthy of …
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers a…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers a…
I'm not sure it's a good idea to release a thriller about a pandemic that sweeps the world at a time when a pandemic is actually sweeping the …
On June 25, 1980, two young women who had been hitchhiking to the Rainbow Gathering in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, were found dead in a …
Scott Turow's latest, 'The Last Trial,' is about the witness stand we all put ourselves on as we age
Spending time with Scott Turow, as rewarding and entertaining as that has been over the years, means spending a great deal of time in courtroo…
A book about presidential assassinations provided comic relief (really!), a true story induced sobering thoughts and a psychological thriller …
If you own a book, you are never alone. Reading has taken on a different meaning for a lot of us these days; it's how we leave our homes while…
‘Mrs. America” is an ambitious limited TV series telling the story of the decade-long battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.Here are books th…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 2, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers a…
"Big Summer," Jennifer Weiner's big summer book, is a hugely entertaining mashup of a beach read / murder mystery / rich-people's-lives-porn /…
On April 15 every year, players from the American and National leagues - all wearing No. 42 - line up on the baselines as a tribute to one of …
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Of all the Chicago names to have faded away, to be buried by history's dust, Jesse Binga's is among the most baffling. That is because for a t…
Micah Mortimer might be, in his own peculiar way, a man for our time. The protagonist of Anne Tyler's new novel, "Redhead by the Side of the R…
Chicago author Amy Krouse Rosenthal was dying of ovarian cancer when she wrote an essay about her beloved husband, Jason. She told readers how…
"WHEN TRUTH MATTERED: THE KENT STATE SHOOTINGS 50 YEARS LATER" By Robert Giles Mission Point Press ($28.95) ___ In May 1970, I was nearly 7 ye…
"The Book of Longings" by Sue Monk Kidd By Sue Monk Kidd. (Penguin Random House, 418 Pages, $28.) Sue Monk Kidd's latest novel has a provocati…
Surprise! Daniel Radcliffe is returning to his roots in the Wizarding World. On Tuesday, Radcliffe - who captivated audiences as boy wizard Ha…
Dawn has broken at last for "Twilight" fans. The beloved vampire series will return this summer with a new novel, "Midnight Sun."
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