After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've ...

The best science fiction books for kids are engaging stories with cool scientific aspects and interesting characters. As for me, I love reading science fiction, and even more, ...

Many thriller books have become classics, adapted for the big and small screens ( Gone Girl and The Girl with the Dragon ...

We Need to Talk About Alcohol in Women's Fiction. Booze-Soaked Books Don’t Just Reflect Reality — They Shape It (Exclusive) My novel acknowledges how alcohol can be both an escape and a trap, ...

Time-travel books aren’t very common in young adult fiction these days, especially in the fantasy genre, which makes the 2022 novel Only a Monster all the more appealing.

Perhaps she’d support this modest proposal: Fiction should spend about 20 percent of its time imagining the world as the author would like it to be. But that’s easier said than done.

When it comes to historical fiction books about war, the options are endless. Whether you want to read about The Civil War, World War I, World War II, The Cold War, The Vietnam War or any other ...

A number of books appear on both lists, but sometimes with very different rankings. (The only one ranked the same on both lists is Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking “Never Let Me Go” at No. 9.) ...