Train your mind for extraordinary performance and the best possible life was an obscure, self-published paperback by Jim Murphy, a former minor league baseball player turned mental coach who spent ...

NEW YORK (AP) — From her house up high in Colorado’s Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the ...

Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its ...

At a library inside the New York State Museum in Albany, shelves are filled with an array of reading materials. But the ...

Airing on Amazon Prime Video today, the drama follows Zara after a gang of violent thieves storm her office in London, ...

Two fiction books about good friends coming from different circumstances. Two biographies of people whose influence on American culture is, arguably, still underrated. One Liza Minnelli memoir. These ...

The Palm Beach County Library System has launched a yearlong initiative called Rediscover Reading. Reading for pleasure has declined significantly among Americans over the last two decades. Research ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

New year, new literary adventures. Authors Isaac Fitzgerald and Adriana Trigiani stopped by TODAY on the last day of 2025 to talk through the books they're looking forward to in the coming year. Their ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the new year begins, novelists send characters to great heights in Tibet and Wyoming, to the great depths of ...