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Across all genres and reading levels ‒ including fiction, history, biography, memoir and picture books ‒ characters and people of color were disproportionately affected by book bans in the ...

In her valedictorian speech from her fictional preparatory school, Chilton, Rory describes how the characters in the catalog ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

For readers of historical fiction, there’s no need to settle on just one place or period when journeying into the past. At their best, these works are deft and authentic—rigorously researched but ...

Emezi, a National Book Award finalist, returns to young-adult fiction with this story inspired by West African culture. Somadina and her inseparable twin brother, Jayaike, are the last in their ...

She continued: "Within weird-girl fiction, women are allowed to be messy, to be angry, to be loud and within these books the main female characters are given permission to take up space." ...