To help jump start your 2026 reading, especially if you need to get out of a reading slump, we’ve got nine suggestions that ...

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Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. courtesy amazon If you find yourself with some downtime this long weekend (or just ...

Enjoyable as it is to immerse yourself in an inches-thick work of fiction, having the time — and focus — to do so is increasingly a luxury. In order to keep you turning pages in between Netflix binges ...

In 2021, Gini Alhadeff, author and translator, brought a new concept to the venerable publisher New Directions. What if, she proposed, New Directions published short books—novellas or long stories—as ...

Some books don’t need hundreds of pages to leave a lasting mark. Short novels and novellas often capture powerful themes with sharp focus, emotional clarity, and memorable storytelling. Their brevity ...

My friend Susan belongs to a book club where the only rule is that the books have to be 200 pages or fewer. I don’t know, because I have never asked, whether that’s because her fellow readers have ...