Pulitzer winner Geraldine Brooks’s latest book is a sweeping tale that uses the true story of a famous 19th-century racehorse to explore the roots and legacy of enslavement.

In ‘The World Cannot Give,’ writer Tara Isabella Burton reckons with both grand questions and contemporary trials.

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‘Chapter and Curse,’ the first in a new mystery series from Elizabeth Penney, offers likeable characters and plausible motivations – for murder.

Flick, the ambitious high school student from Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel ‘Election,’ is now an assistant principal in the sequel, ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win.’

In the memoir “James Patterson by James Patterson,” the best-selling author opens up – kind of – about how he came to be such a force in the literary world.