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‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ by Isabel Allende

25 Jan 2020

Love and war shape everything in Isabel Allende’s sweeping, splendid new novel, “A Long Petal of the Sea.” This is her best book in years, one she has poured...

The man who cuts all long books into half is fondly called 'The book murderer'

23 Jan 2020

A Twitter post has divided the internet after the user revealed that he cuts long books in half to make them more portable. Minn authors new book teaches kids...

Winfrey chooses the novel 'American Dirt' for her book club

22 Jan 2020

Jeanine Cummins' "American Dirt,” one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club. "American Dirt,” published Tuesday, tells of a...

‘How Quickly She Disappears,’ by Raymond Fleischmann

18 Jan 2020

Something ominous happens in the opening pages of “How Quickly She Disappears” and it’s not immediately clear whether it’s the good kind of ominous. Here’s the sitch: An unhappily...

New Book shares early stories written by Zora Neale Hurston

16 Jan 2020

The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so forgotten and impoverished that her work was out of print and her grave left unmarked. Starting...

Rare 1623 book featuring works of the Bard to go up for auction

13 Jan 2020

Who hasn't heard of William Shakespeare? Perhaps no other poet and playwright has captured the minds of millions so tellingly not only in Britain, the country of his birth,...

‘The Book of Science and Antiquities,’ by Thomas Keneally

12 Jan 2020

Australian writer Thomas Keneally can be a hard sell. Brilliant, visionary and astoundingly prolific, he has written such bestsellers as “Schindler’s List” and “The Daughters of Mars,” as well...

‘Why We Can’t Sleep,’ by Ada Calhoun

11 Jan 2020

I remember seeing it on Facebook, shared by seemingly every woman my age in fall 2017 — hundreds of thousands of times in a few days. A viral Oprah.com...

Laurie Hertzel: Looking forward to the books of 2020

07 Jan 2020

You don’t need me to remind you that this is the darkest, coldest time of year. Just scrape the frost off your window, look outside, and shiver. But if...

From Michelle Obama to E.L. James, women ruled the decade in books

05 Jan 2020

Colette Bancroft There are many lenses through which to look at books in the decade just past. But one thing is certain: Women writers were a powerful force. Early...

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