Hoping to catch the eye of the boy she likes, 13-year-old Deecie Jeffries sneaks out of the house in Austin, Texas, in 1987 ...

Among the world’s classic novels, the Chinese are peculiar ... is modeled exactly on traditional Chinese novels. Almost 100 characters crowd its 815 close-print pages; it is written with ...

Dream of the Red Chamber, based on a sprawling five-volume work, zooms in on the central love story between the Stone and ...

Despite being well over 100 years old, it's completely reliable ... It's all based on the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist about orphans and street urchins. The most Dickensian of Dickens novels.

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Baum took the traditional hero’s journey and gave it a uniquely American twist: a young girl from the heartland becomes a ...

One of the greatest novels ever written, it is an intellectual feast with an elegant style and satiric wit. Mann’s tuberculosis sanatorium is a microcosm of Europe before the Great War ...

Explore Ursula K. Le Guin's captivating books, where imaginative stories, deep characters, and powerful themes create ...

Award-winning Swedish journalist Tuva Moodyson sees a news alert that a deaf teenager has gone missing in a remote little ...

He was the author of over 70 books, selling 100 million copies in more than 40 languages worldwide. His novels have been ... well-deserved seat among other classic titles of the modern age.

"I would not have finished it, except I needed to know what happened. And what happened was so much less than satisfying..." ...