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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.

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.

Katherine Rundell, Christopher Paolini and other writers mark the 75th anniversary of the book’s U.S. publication: “It taught me to long for big pleasures.”

A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is raising money to buy it.