BookTok still runs the publishing industry. Many of the books you might hear about most on TikTok aren't exactly recent. Readers get pulled into the community by watching re-reads of Harry Potter or ...

Portland author Kimberly King Parsons published her debut novel, “We Were the Universe,” last year. On Monday, her book took home the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards ...

Five Canadian writers have made the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

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This was the only book named by more than one author. Jacquelyn Gilmore, whose book, The Elf Witch, has a 3.83 rating on Goodreads and is an Amazon best-seller, says: "In my opinion, the book everyone ...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is a Hugo ...

These standout novels represent the best newcomers to the literary scene this year Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Humanoid mosquitoes, alien contact on deadly moons, implants that let you know everything your partner is thinking… the science fiction novels on offer in February feel especially interesting, and I’m ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues — copyright laws ...

Mr. Morris teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Over the past two decades, literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are increasingly written by women ...