#literary fiction

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The Goodreads reading challenge may be good for when you need motivation, but it didn’t work out for me. And so, I quit at midyear. Here’s why.

Waiting for your favorite celeb to start a book club so you can combine your book love with your fandom? Well, it can't hurt to dream.

A 90s kid turns 28 and takes a bookish trip down memory lane, reflecting on books read at age eight in 1999 and age 18 in 2009.

World Hello Day comes around every November 21, and it always makes me think about strong characters in fiction. If ...

Beautiful, well-written graphic novels for literary fiction fans.

It's been an excellent year in short story collections, but here are 3 from Lesley Nneka Arimah, Daniel Alarcón, and M. John Harrison that stood out.

New fiction on race and class from South African writers.

A recent study claims that readers of literary fiction are more empathetic than readers of genre fiction are. This lit fic fan is skeptical.

A new study claims that reading makes someone more attractive, and we agree.

I believe one of the greatest things that a bibliophile can do is to question everything “to the nitty-gritty”, as ...

Fall isn’t just the time of bounty when it comes to harvest. It’s also plentiful and rich when it comes ...

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, and much, ...

Whenever I open a book to read, I do it with a wish that when I reach the end, its ...

I was all set to write a super summery post about my favourite summer hobby: reading. Reading at the beach, ...