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, ...

Welcome to our round-up of the science fiction to look forward to in October. In a pile on my desk at home, ready for me to tear into them once I get a minute, are two of the books I mention below ...

Fan fiction may not command the same respect as other literary pursuits, but it's a rich mode of expression, ... Here are the Books We Love: 400+ great 2022 reads recommended by NPR; ...

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.

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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.

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.) ...