Against this backdrop, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight this year served a dual purpose. Some reflected on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s ...

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It's the season for year-end lists and we’ve got you covered when it comes to the best books of 2024. Jeffrey Brown sat down with two of our regular literary critics, Maureen Corrigan and Gilbert Cruz ...

From Tudor England to the White House, read the unmissable fiction that’s inspired by history. Conjure up some of your favourite books and we can guarantee some of them will have their roots in ...

Absorbing, tender portraits reclaim history from early nineteenth-century Yorkshire to Golden Age Boston to twentieth-century Paris. Janet Somerville is the author of “Yours, for Probably ...

In this week's Book Club: 2024 was also the year of Emily Henry books, according to Boston Public Library Wrapped.

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It’s hard to believe that 2024 is nearly over. It certainly was a tough year for the world, and one we will remember, for all ...

By Olivia Waite Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” The year’s best speculative fiction ...

Rebecca Boyle’s glowing history “Our Moon” looked into the sky and reminded us that seeing something every day is not the same as knowing it. None of those books are in my top 10, ...