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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Waiting by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 2. War by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) 3. Framed by Jim Mccloskey & John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 4.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a memoir released eight months after he died in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny never loses faith that his cause is worth suffering for while also acknowledging he wished he could have written a very different book

“Framed: Astonishingly True Stories of Wrongful Convictions,” by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Doubleday) and “The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men and a 20-Year Fight for Justice“ by Dan Slepian (Celadon) —- It’s painful to read t

Americans love road trips. Or at least American writers love them as metaphors of self-discovery.

Richard Chizmar, who co-wrote parts of the “Gwendy” trilogy with Stephen King from 2017-2022 (“Gwendy’s Button Box” and “Gwendy’s Final Task”), has written his longest novel yet and readers should not be surprised that it reads, at least somewhat, li

For DeMar DeRozan, this path toward improved mental health started with writing a tweet. It led to him writing a book. Being in Sacramento isn’t the only new part of DeRozan’s story entering this NBA season.

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he and his clients want to read a copy of a "tell all book" seized from Pickton's cell after he died following an attack in a Quebec prison.

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Shihab Nye is this year's winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the celebrated 20th century poet.

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's National Book Awards 75th anniversary ceremony won't only be a tribute to literature. Expect some laughs and some music, too.

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett's recent wave of literary honors.