The late novelist Anne Rice will be celebrated at an event in New Orleans next month. Anne Rice: An All Saints’ Day Celebration will be presented by Dinner Partners LLC, a produ ...

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in a news release that it will launch the Children’s Booker Prize in 2026, with the first winner receiving the award in 2027.

While horror movies can be fun to watch, I feel like they just can’t compare to reading about things that go bump in the night. Why is that? I personally believe it’s because ...

Jodi Picoult is hitting back at an Indiana high school after a planned performance of a musical based on one of her books was canceled, the Associated Press reports.

Jeff Hiller will serve as the host of this year’s National Book Awards.

Gwyneth Paltrow has harsh words for the author of a recent unauthorized biography of her. In an interview with British Vogue, the actor and celebrity influencer blasted Amy Odell, author of Gwyneth: ...

Featuring 284 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA reviews; also in this special Mystery, Thriller, and Horror Issue: Laura Lippman, Chuck Hogan, Erin Entrada Kelly, and ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter is a black girl and an expert at navigating the two worlds she exists in: one at Garden Heights, her black neighborhood, and the other at Williamson Prep, her suburban, ...

McBride follows up his hit novel Deacon King Kong (2020) with another boisterous hymn to community, mercy, and karmic justice.

The winners of the prizes were chosen from books that received a starred review from Kirkus during the eligibility period of November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025: 383 fiction titles, 290 nonfiction ...

Two young Indian writers discover their conjoined destinies by leaving home, coming back, connecting, disconnecting, and swimming in the ocean at Goa.