I was straightening my desk when I found the piece of paper — carefully folded multiple times to form a long strip, the size ...

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Betting is a strange beast. One minute it’s all buzz and adrenaline; the next, it’s regret and silence. That’s the edge most ...

The 10 best books of May give you an early start on porch-swing, beach, and vacation reading.

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Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, ...

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“The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown. The first book in author Peter Brown’s trilogy of the same name — which was also adapted into an animated feature film last year — follows the adventures and evolution ...

Full disclosure: the Australian writer Markus Zusak and I have been friends for almost 20 years, both our lives changed by the publication of our Holocaust-themed novels The Book Thief and The Boy ...

A splashy new book that quotes palace staffers on their insights into the British royal family reveals that Kate Middleton actually found Meghan Markle “delightful” when the American TV actor ...

Let's take a deep look into ten iconic adventure book quotes and the literary masterpieces they hail from, including Saint Augustine’s The Confessions, Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, and Helen ... A ...