Ransom Riggs' highly anticipated new novel in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series publishes on October 2nd.  You can read the prologue and an excerpt from the first chapter here. 

Celebrate your literary freedoms with a handful of our favorite titles that have—in some way, at some time—been "challenged," "banned," and "burned."

It's Prime Day and a trio of the most popular kitchen gadgets are included in today's deals.  Here they are, along with a couple of my favorite cookbooks to go with each one.

Remembering Anthony Bourdain, the internationally renowned and much loved chef, author, and television personality.

"Reading is like magic."  From the mouth of a young person straight to my heart. Today we celebrate the launch of Amazon's Prime Book Box with a helping hand from kids who love books.

Ten years of top-selling Kindle eBooks, from thrillers to a timeless classic.

Kirkus names its picks for the best fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' books among those that gained starred Kirkus reviews this year.

Explore Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing, Anthony Casillo's ode to the beauty and strangeness of these contraptions from a not-so-distant era.

These three women put everything on the line to report from abroad.

One of the world's most prestigious literary awards, the UK's Man Booker Prize, has been awarded to the American author George Saunders for his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo. The book was selected from a shortlist composed mostly of...

We couldn't have been happier for Jeff VanderMeer. Until now.

Dan Brown's next thriller Origin will be published on October 3rd, and he's writing at the peak of his talents in this one. Read the prologue and first chapter here.

Riverhead Books' art director, Helen Yentus, talks about the challenges of designing a cover for Gabriel Tallent's debut novel.

Princess Diana’s legacy lives on, Mark Wahlberg gets paid and Malala heads to Oxford in this week's rundown of the books behind the headlines.

We always pay attention to the Washington State Book Awards, organized by The Washington Center for the Book.