'Water for Elephants' author shows her affinity for animals again in her novel about humans and animals at a university research facility.

The American author, who lives in the U.K., is out with At Home: A Short History of Private Life in October.

They're releasing 'True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World.'

Her new book is 'Getting to Happy,' a sequel to 'Waiting to Exhale.'

Also recently released: fiction from Nick Hornby and an account of Hurricane Katrina survivors.

Chloe Moretz appears to be leading the hunt for Katniss Everdeen, and Kathy Reichs is out with her first young-adult novel.

Tony Blair regrets banning fox hunting, but not invading Iraq. He was captivated by Princess Diana, intimidated by Queen Elizabeth II. He heaps ...

Like Jonathan Franzen’s previous novel, “The Corrections,” this is a masterly portrait of a nuclear family in turmoil, with a majestic sweep that gathers every sociocultural morsel of our shared millennial life.

The author's hugely ambitious new novel arrives today with the kind of great expectations most authors can only dream about.

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Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE POSTCARD KILLERS, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
2. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
4. THE COBRA, by Frederick Forsyth
5. STAR ISLAND, by Carl Hiaasen

Milan Kundera’s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a “post-art” era.

The final book in a four-volume series describes the fate of nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union fell.

The story of a 1945 Mississippi case of a black man accused of raping a white woman that exposed the seething tensions of the early civil rights era.

How the Industrial Revolution transformed invention itself.

Seeing the march of American history in the story of the Boston Post Road, a colonial highway turned modern-day ribbon of retail.

Authorities say a car rammed into the security gate outside Stephen King's home in Maine.

The story of Romeo and Juliet was antique even before Shakespeare retold it circa 1600, and even though the Bard is still the last word on star-cross'd ...

Here's a scary what-if scenario.

“The Postcard Killers,” a collaboration between James Patterson and the Swedish crime writer Liza Marklund, hits the fiction list at No. 1.