-
Get a Free Issue
of our Ezine!
Nov 26 2018: The shortlists for the 2018 Costa Awards have been released. The five category winners will be announced on January 7 and the overall winner on January 29. The awards honor "some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the U.K. and Ireland....
Nov 26 2018: James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress for nearly three decades, who led the nation's treasure house of knowledge into the digital age (not without controversy) and added millions of books, films and cultural artifacts to its historic collections, including a ...
Nov 25 2018: The New York Times explores the increasingly porous borders between writing novels and writing for television:
In a world in which some of our more successful or esteemed novelists — Margaret Atwood, Gillian Flynn, George R.R. Martin, Salman Rushdie, Kevin Kwan, Neil...
Nov 25 2018: The Washington Post reports on why translated literature is gaining ground in the USA:
In the two disharmonious decades of the 21st century, American society has grown less homogeneous and more interactive. Americans have expanded their engagement with other cultures...
Nov 20 2018: Esi Edugyan was announced as the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Washington Black during a televised awards banquet Monday night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. The Giller is considered Canada's most prestigious literary prize.
Edugyan ...
Nov 18 2018: The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is… toxic.
The adjective toxic is defined as 'poisonous' and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning 'poisoned' or 'imbued with poison'...
The Oxford Word of the Year is a ...
Nov 18 2018: The Washington Post looks at First Lady memoirs past and present, starting with Julia Grant:
When former first lady Julia Grant finished her memoir in 1899, with the help of one Mark Twain, she couldn’t find a publisher for it.
"My book, on which I have built so ...
Nov 15 2018: The 2018 National Book Award Winners have been announced. See them all on BookBrowse including the first winner of the new Translated Literature category.
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
.png)
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign...
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
