All Books
- 10 best books of September 2015, according to Amazon What books being released this month are the cream of the crop? Check out the picks from Amazon's editors!
- Bestselling books the week of 9/3, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- Back to Hogwarts: 'Harry Potter' fans celebrate the traditional first day of school
In the 'Potter' books, Hogwarts students always head back to school on Sept. 1. Many fans are celebrating today and 'Potter' fanatics have a new book (by Rowling although not set in the 'Potter' universe), a new theme park, and – a bit further out – a new movie to look forward to.
- William McKinley: As a president, did he move mountains?
Historian Scott Miller talks about the legacy of William McKinley, the 25th US president and, suddenly, a newsworthy figure.
- 'Purity' shows a new Jonathan Franzen: funnier, looser, and more caring
'Purity,' Franzen's fifth novel, is the best book the prodigiously talented novelist has written.
- 10 great books featuring working class heroes nspired by a posthumous story collection from Lucia Berlin: a list of excellent stories starring proletarians too rarely given voice in industrial life.
- My letter from Oliver Sacks
Sacks’s short letter – sweeping, evocative, articulate – had come to me in early 1994 when, just a year out of my 20s, I was still trying to be a little of all of those things.
- 'Founding Grammars' traces the battles Americans have fought over language
An impassioned history of primary US prose offers 'entertaining historical perspective on these linguistic clashes.'