Oprah Winfrey’s 125th book club pick comes from a first-time author.

Canadian poet and translator Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Reuters reports. The Swedish Academy awarded Carson with the prize “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful ...

The winners of the prizes were chosen from books that received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews during the eligibility period of Nov. 1, 2025 to Oct. 31, 2026. The winning authors each receive a ...

A haunting double homicide in Alaska led this public defender to write her first book, ‘Sisters of the Midnight Sun.’ ...

Finalists in the category of young people’s literature are Elana K. Arnold’s Holloway, Tae Keller’s When Tomorrow Burns, Keala Kendall’s That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic, David Levithan and ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

In a new book, Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas is opening up about a top-secret on-set affair. On Friday, People shared an excerpt from Douglas’ forthcoming mem ...

The organization’s latest Index of School Book Bans, released Monday at the start of Banned Books Week (Oct. 4-10), reports that 11,982 books were banned during the period, the highest since PEN ...

Bestselling thriller novelist Lee Child is speaking out about why he passed on another big-screen Reacher film.

Here are four upcoming productions based on novels by John Steinbeck, Colleen Hoover, Josh Malerman, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

In observance of Banned Books Week, as well as the ALA’s 150th anniversary, the organization has compiled a list of the 150 most challenged titles from 1990 through 2025. The ALA’s Office for ...

The MacArthur Foundation grants come with a cash award of $800,000. The fellowships were first awarded in 1981; previous recipients include Cormac McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Ishmael Reed, Edwidge ...