When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

ThriftBooks is launching its 500 Billion Page Challenge to help America fall back in love with reading ...

There's something for every type of reader this month.

You know that feeling when you finish a book and just have to discuss it with someone? That's a great book club book. Here ...

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If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

The National Book Foundation’s Summer Reading Adventure challenge encourages adults to pick up a book and share their literary journey with fellow bookworms Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. With 2026 only a few days away, many are whipping out the Notes app on their phones to jot down goals for the new year. One of them may be to read more.

Allowing video to crowd out reading means trading selecting and constructing for patience and willingness to follow direction. It’s a poor bargain in the age of AI.

Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books to read before their film adaptation releases this year.