Austin Kleon might be one of the most optimistic and motivating people on earth.

In this month's picks for the best true tales: We catch up with the "comma queen" and her adventures in everything Greek; a gripping, decades-old cold case investigation; a thrilling look back at the Apollo Moon landings; a deep dive into our inherent biases; and a last collection from a beloved scientist and storyteller.

The International Thriller Writers have chosen their favorites. Here are the finalists. 

The creator of A Song of Ice and Fire talked to us about his new graphic novel ( Starport), his rapidly expanding share-universe series ( Wild Cards), his decades-long writing career, and more. 

Here are the books that now carry the distinction of being a Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction, biography, poetry, and more.

Fifty Shades author E L James talks with us about her hopes about launching a brand-new romantic couple into the world with her just-released novel, The Mister.

This unusual whodunit is "a deep dive into the lives of immigrant families and of parents of children with special needs and illnesses, both groups isolated and exhausted by the sacrifices they’ve had to make, desperate for connection."

Learn more about the extraordinary woman who "showed an astonished male establishment—on both sides of the Atlantic—just what women could do in warfare."

Five new science fiction and fantasy novels will have you ignoring the April flowers and glued to the page.

A sampling of some of our new favorites in food writing and cookbooks this month.

From fairytales to nonfiction, from Los Angeles to Nantucket, here are the books we are reading this weekend.

Judges selected the final six from a list of 108 books written across 25 languages.

The Romance Writers of America recently announced the finalists for the 2019 RITA Awards... and we call out some great authors that they missed.

What do you do when a friend hands you a book by a celebrated psychotherapist called Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and exclaims, "This is a book for you!”? You read it, obviously.

Ten books to celebrate one of our favorite mythological beasts.