The first month of 2026 has several new and notable titles to read, including Jennette McCurdy and Colleen Hoover.

YA (Young Adult) dark romance is becoming an increasingly popular genre. This subgenre of romance novels features mature content and darker themes, like coming-of-age, politics, identity, friendships, ...

Classic books stand the test of time by capturing readers’ attention generation after generation. They focus on themes that people across continents, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic circumstances ...

"Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s," a collection of six classic, hard-to-pigeonhole masterpieces, is writing that again brings to "Hitting the Books" the noir works of this time period ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Books editor David L. Ulin talks to Art Spiegelman about ‘Breakdowns,’ ...

If You Loved These Authors' YA Books, You Need to Read Their Adult Novels—Here Are 12 of the Best They're not just for kids! Our list of graphic novels for adults will help fill out your to-be-read ...

One of the seminal intellectual and spiritual moments in my life was when I was a college seminarian in the 1990s studying at Saint John’s University in New York. I was enrolled in a philosophy class, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This is the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes but ...

Melissa Muldoon, a Lakeway author and connoisseur of all things Italian, said her lifelong relationship with Italy came on slowly, starting when she studied abroad there in college. Now, decades later ...