Readers are always looking for new books and, don't you know, NPR's Books We Love has tons of suggestions! We hear staff picks for great novels to check out from 2025.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Reading to your kids is one of the best gifts you can give them, but finding story time favorites and, ...

There was a time when “summer books” meant popcorn reads you consumed in a sunbaked afternoon — disposable books devoured and left behind for the next hotel room guest. Not that there’s anything wrong ...

Nothing hits your senses quite like the enchanting smell of a paperback book. This sweet smell, with a hint of vanilla and an underlying aroma of coffee beans, is actually called bibliosmia. It is ...

While the landscape of inclusive children’s books is improving, it can still be a challenge to parse through the thousands of picture books about mommies and daddies to find ones featuring two-mom ...

Chris Drumm is a lifelong gamer with a BA in English writing and years of experience writing articles and news online. He's played hundreds of games in dozens of genres, enjoyed them all, and put more ...

Kailyn Lowry shares her six favorite books. Kailyn Lowry looks to books to learn new things about herself. “Reading has always been my escape, but it’s also where I find pieces of myself,” the “Teen ...

Reading is hard right now. The pandemic has pushed our already scattered attention spans to a crisis point. But even before 2020, stressors such as political chaos and the allure of our phones made it ...