Music lifts us up during times of crisis as proven by the Italian balcony singers and the book, The Cellist of Sarajevo.

Lily King's novel Writers & Lovers tells of the struggles of creative life, of finding love, and of determination to make dreams come true.

Now is the time to stay home and catch up on all those books you’ve wanted to read in the past, but didn’t have time. Sheltering in place do

I kept thinking about that as I read Robert Hellenga’s novel, The Snakewoman of Little Egypt. It almost sounds like the opening of a joke: “

The critics hated The Bridges of Madison County, but the tactics Robert James Waller used in his novel made the readers love it. 60 million

Fredrik Backman uses three tactics to change a bitter, old curmudgeon into a lovable man in A Man Called Ove, the best-selling novel.

Julie Orringer's novel dramatizes the life of Varian Fry, who helped get Jewish artists and writers out of occupied France. Much is fiction.

Aspiring writers can learn from the techniques used by Krueger in the acclaimed novel, Ordinary Grace.

Why spend time reading a book when you dislike the main character, i.e., Olive Kitteridge? Sometimes the most unlikeable character impacts you the most.

Unless you’re blessed with a photographic memory, you don’t remember each and every book you read. A book journal will help with that.

Circe was a unique and memorable book that took me to a world I had never allowed myself to imagine…the halls of the Titan gods forever batt

Delia Owens may was influenced by her work in Africa and the unsolved murder of a poacher that implicated her family when she wrote Crawdads

“Now, instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter and companionship to w

But what happens when two authors write two books about a relatively obscure topic and the second book, released later, has definite similar

The critical components of any classic: Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear This year, in a drastic departure from our norm, the Monday...

William Byrd's Diary 300 year-old diary is filled with good health, good thoughts, and good humor - and coded references to sex.