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The Guardian’s correspondent chooses books from Goethe to Michael Dibdin which reveal an ‘eternally deceptive’ country

We're nosy here at the Riot, and we like to talk about all the aspects of the reading life...even the ones we might be a little bit embarrassed to own up to. So last week, we asked you to confess the

Amazon announced its annual Best Books list for 2019, with Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments" at the top. Here are the top 10 reads of 2019.

As we complete the final chapter of 2019, it’s time to reflect not only on this year but also on this decade! Our OOM contributors looked back at the last ten years, selecting their favorite books from 2009 through 2019.

'Leaders who don't have time to read are leaders who don't make time to learn.'

The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

A look at big fiction titles to be released this summer

The show is over, but stories of British society in the 1910s and '20s live on

From Seattle Times books editor Mary Ann Gwinn: Here are some beautiful and informative new books for the bird lover on your list, tomes that examine and catalog birds in all their beauty and complexity.

Files are saved, paperwork is completed, and instructions are left for the new principal. As I prepare for a new adventure as principal of Mineral Point Elementary School (Wisconsin), there is one …

Every family is unique. These books help children learn about families all around them.

Successful leadership is a cultivated skill. Here are our top picks of leadership books to help you inspire your workforce to be the best they can be.

A century after the Bolsheviks seized power for communism, Tariq Ali chooses some of the best books about an uprising that changed the world forever

Share these books with your daughters and teach them anything is possible.

A better way to destroy a book than burning it, artist Guy Laramee makes extremely impressive sculptures out of books. Amplifying the impressiveness, Laramee not only sculpts the books, but tends to make one sculpture out of multiple books stacked or lined up together in one arrangement or another. Generally imitating some type of landscape, each piece is extremely detailed, and mighty impressive, not only showing…

As a fellow student, I know that making sure you get the right books for learning a new skill can be tough.

It was an article on Mother Jones about a journalist's undercover experience at a for-profit prison that opened my eyes to the desperate need for prison reform. I was outraged and disgusted... mostly

10 Books to Read for Women’s History Month Celebrate Women’s History Month with these stories about women who challenged stereotypes and improved the world around them. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg By Irin CarmonRead More

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1. Don’t call us Dead, Danez Smith, (Graywolf Press, 2017) poems can’t make history vanish, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination. Smith’s work is about that imagination—its role in repairing and sustaining communities, and in making the world more bearable… . Their poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy… . But they also know the magic trick of making writing on the page operate like the…

Sometimes books come into our lives just when we need them. Here’s what to read and when.