In the hands of skilled novelists, the stories of an heiress, a prime minister and a literary mystery woman are brought to ...

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at ...

Which season is the ideal reading season? It’s a question that’s debated often among readers. Whether it’s winter, spring, ...

Author Harlan Coben stopped by the 3rd Hour of TODAY to share his book recommendations for October. Expect a spooky book ...

THE MAN ON A DONKEY (627 pp.]—H.F.M. Prescott—Macmillan ($5). The average historical might be described as a novel with a past, and no better than it should be. In Britain, during the last ...

Why We’re Excited: This immersive historical fiction novel about medieval Florence follows the story of a woman exiled after being accused of witchcraft for using alternative heaving methods to ...

FIRST Book Club (a.k.a. FFW Book Club) is back with a variety of book recommendations for October 11 to October 24. With ...

As the weather cools and the days get darker, new fall books arrive in libraries and bookstores. Look out for fiction both ...

Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley was first adapted in 1999, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law, ...

By Olivia Waite Olivia Waite, the Book Review’s romance fiction columnist, writes queer and historical romance ... so check back for more recommendations. In this “Snow White”-inspired ...

Two different prizes, with two different juries, with two lists of books that—I’d wager—will have a lot in common. Adapted from Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the ...

This book was not only my introduction to the Assassin's Creed universe but was the reason I wanted to start gaming in the first place. The plot is very similar to the games, with the historical ...