To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

In our survey about the best books since 1996, a number of authors split the vote — among their own titles. Here are 10 ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ...

So, after building our Ultimate L.A. and Hollywood bookshelves, we decided to mark the 30th edition of the festival by shifting the frame of this year's special issue from "place" to "time," and ...

Best known for The Pillars of the Earth and the sprawling Kingsbridge series, Ken Follett has sold over 188 million books worldwide. He is a master of his craft, and leads the historical fiction ...

Emily Henry has been the queen of the romance novel, and with five books currently on the shelves, it’s time to rank them, ...

All of the stories in this collection are exceptionally ... One of the writers included in the China issue of Granta is Yu Hua, whose novel City of Fiction (Europa Editions, 428pp, £14.99 ...

A great place to start if you’re looking to get into Middle Eastern fiction. All Quiet ... of book sales and a Nobel Prize in Literature under his belt. Snow isn’t his best-known novel ...

Our columnist on the month’s best releases. Credit...Pablo Amargo Supported by By Sarah Weinman Sometimes you know immediately that a book is going ... devotee of mystery fiction ...