All Books
- Reader recommendation: Life in a Jar
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 11/13/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- Caitlin Moran's 'How to Build a Girl' will be adapted as a film
Moran and John Niven will reportedly adapt the book for the screen.
- Stephen King's new novel 'Revival' is garnering strong reviews – with a few exceptions
Critics are calling 'Revival' 'spellbinding' and 'dark and haunting,' though the Monitor's own reviewer said the novel is not as fun as recent King work 'Mr. Mercedes' and one critic called the book's ending 'rushed and unbalanced.'
- No bombshells in Bush bio '41,' but some rare glimpses of both father and son
Although he evades some details, George W. Bush infuses his biography of his father with love – and offers some interesting insights.
- 'China 1945' asks: Did the US 'lose' China?
Former Time magazine correspondent Richard Bernstein argues that the US was not in a position to alter China's leftward swing after World War II.
- Reader recommendation: Gray Mountain
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'Revival' tells the dark and stormy tale of a New England minister who loses his faith
A former minister turned carnival huckster stars in Stephen King's latest novel.
- Reader recommendation: 90 Miles to Havana
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Beep Beep Books aims to bring relief through reading to children impacted by Typhoon Haiyan
'Buy a jeepney. Fill it with books.... Inspire children,' says Marcie Dunham, the Filipina-American teacher who devised Beep Beep Books, a project aimed at bringing back books to children affected by Typhoon Haiyan.
- 'Texts from Jane Eyre': What would literary characters say if they had cell phones?
Mallory Ortberg's new book imagines text conversations between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and more.
- 'The Hunger Games' will now become a stage show
There are two movies yet to be released in the 'Hunger Games' film adaptation. Soon after the last one hits theaters, a stage production of 'Games' is set to open in London.