All of the top-10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women ...

Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025.

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

Though independent bookstores aren’t known for stocking a wide assortment of genre fiction titles, booksellers are finding that genre fiction can have a large payoff. By developing genre sections, ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

One of the biggest success stories in U.S. publishing in recent years has been the continued growth of digital book publishing. Last year, total revenue for e-book sales in the United States reached ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Maryse Condé, Haruki Murakami, Kim Thúy and Neil Gaiman were each nominated for the award Maryse Condé, Haruki ...

Genre fiction by such authors as Colleen Hoover, N.K. Jemisin, and Rebecca Roanhorse remain extremely popular, and publishers have been increasing their output to meet the demand in recent years for ...

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

Did you know that January 2nd happens to be SciFi Day? Well, now you do, and we’re going to celebrate it by letting you dive ...