Book lovers know that you can't always describe a book as simply being "fiction" or "nonfiction." That's why there are so many specific genres that books fall into. Genre is just another name for ...

It takes the average person 36 minutes and 29 pages to get lost in a book they’re reading. A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults who regularly read found the easiest book genres to lose yourself in are ...

Rather than herald their demise of books, the advent of eBooks has broadened their appeal, bringing stories to our tablets and mobile phones. Available at the touch of a button and with thousands of ...

Young Adult fiction offers cross-generational appeal, making it a safe bet for gifts when recipients’ exact preferences are unknown Cozy fantasy and romance expansions represent the fastest-growing ...

The Booker novel is now a ghost story. The Pulitzer winner reads like a thriller. Inside the quiet collapse of the wall ...

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast. There is also the problem ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

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