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The two-time Newbery medalist Erin Entrada Kelly recommends 10 books whose mingling of fear and suspense has tantalized her.

Her 1983 book “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.

Her 1983 book “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.

From “Slow Horses” to “Big Little Lies,” our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.

Interested in these classic novels, but not sure where to start? Let our expert guide you.

Our columnist looks at the best recent releases.

I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.

As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black.

In a Pulitzer-winning book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” he wrote that the colonists rose up against an entire worldview, not just against taxation.

The best-selling author Rachel Gillig recommends books that bring the haunted hallmarks of Gothic fiction into enchanted settings.