Because humor is universal, am I right?

We talk about 12 memoirs and biographies that made a big impact on us this year, plus we chat with Liane Moriarty about her newest bestselling novel as well as season 2 of HBO's Big Little Lies.

The best true tales of the year not otherwise classified (by us) as history, biography, business, cooking, or any number of other categories that are not fiction. What does that leave? Plenty!

The fourth episode of the Amazon Book Review Podcast reveals how we picked the best books of 2018, plus Erin Kodicek interviews Educated author Tara Westover in front of a live audience at Amazon's Seattle campus.

The trouble with picking the best biographies of the year? Too many deserving books. We did our best.

Indianapolis is among our top 3 books of 2018. We spoke with the authors about why the survivors of the torpedoed ship revealed troubling moments that had never been spoken of before, and why it's important that the full story of the disaster has been finally told.

The Amazon Books Editors' selections for the best new biographies include: an amiable book by a widely respected, amiable rock star (who almost certainly wouldn't call himself a rock star); the life and tragic death of an iconoclastic war correspondent; a rowdy love letter from the Beastie Boys to their fans; and the struggles of an Antarctic adventurer following in the footsteps of that continent’s most famous explorer.

Oprah enthusiastically selects former First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming as her latest Oprah's Book Club pick. Becoming goes on sale Tuesday, November 13.

Election day seems like a good time to talk about our best history books of the month. Here's are five of them, along with a link to the full list.

With Beautiful Boy hitting theaters nationwide, we caught up with authors David and Nic Sheff to talk about the film adapted from their memoirs.

Blondie's guitarist and co-founder talks to us about his new collection of photographs chronicling New York's influential music scene and the city's ever changing personality.

The only thing we like better than writing about books is talking about books. So we launched a podcast.

We talk to author David Grann about adventurer and Ernest Shackleton-acolyte Henry Worsley, and his a fascinating account of struggle and determination against the grimmest of odds.

A list of political books for this most political of seasons.

Were you looking for more reasons to worry about the future, or the present? LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media will fuel your nightmares. Authors P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking share the events that led to the book, as well as the challenges of writing a topic that mutates by the hour.