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In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.

The best-selling author Marie Lu recommends thrilling reads that ground enchanting adventures in recognizable settings.

She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.

In “Playing for Time,” she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.

In “Playing for Time,” she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.

Our books reporter Elizabeth A. Harris explores the disappearance of mass market paperbacks — and talks with Stephen King about what paperbacks have meant to him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is accusing a private hospital in Lagos of administering an overdose of a sedative, prompting an outpouring of complaints by Nigerians about their health care system.

These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.

King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated and left for exile years ago. Now, his attempted comeback is giving his family a royal headache.

In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.