Self-help is booming. The industry is projected to be worth over $81bn by 2032, with self-help books – think popular ...

The classics are making a comeback. The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are suddenly reentering the zeitgeist. Guillermo del ...

Classic books stand the test of time by capturing readers’ attention generation after generation. They focus on themes that people across continents, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic circumstances ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. According to this year's second-annual Everand State of Reading Report, bookworms commonly revisited classic works of fiction in 2025 ...

Resistance to classics often comes from the wrong introductions. These books prove that older literature can be gripping, ...

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From the time I started reading seriously, about three years ago, I’ve been exploring different genres. Interestingly enough, it seems that the lengthy classics are the books I enjoy the most — and I ...

Restlessness takes over once these classics open their grip. Pacing, voice and emotional pull turn long-revered texts into ...

Some books do not shout for relevance. They wait. This selection of modern classics draws readers into quieter rooms where ...

People’s reading preferences change, and new authors, each with his or her own style, publish books every day. If they achieve any recognition at all, most books remain popular for a short period of ...

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of ...

Summer is a great time not only to read bestsellers, but also get caught up on the classics, such as these books by African-American authors. Many of these titles are also available digitally via the ...