If you love reading, University of California authors delivered a library of treasures over the past year to keep you turning pages all winter long. UC writers this year brought home the Pulitzer ...

This has been a great year for escapes: Speculative-fiction writers have leaned hard into the fantastic and the diverting, offering stories that posited everything from “methgicians” to AIs hard at ...

This year Aggie authors covered a variety of topics in fiction, nonfiction and more. Check out UC Davis Magazine’s full list for 2023. Mike Chen ’00 explored the immortal through Louise, who is ...

Compiling the annual favorite mysteries of the year is a labor of love, and a true labor that begins with the first novel of the year. Annually, it becomes harder to narrow down the list from the 120 ...

Each year, we pore over thousands of new books, seeking out the best novels, memoirs, biographies, poetry collections, stories and more. Here are the standouts, selected by the staff of The New York ...

A history that reads like a potboiler, a graphic novel that feels like a psychedelic expedition: Here are six books that stood out in 2023. “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” David ...

These new works of fiction and nonfiction vividly render the state’s past and present. By Soumya Karlamangla Believe it or not, the end of 2023 is approaching. That means we’re entering the season of ...

The Economist’s deputy culture editor explores the most captivating fiction books of 2023. They include Paul Murray’s “The Bee Sting,” which vividly portrays an unhappy family from multiple ...

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