When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Jenna Bush Hager is an avid bookworm, and founded her beloved book club, Read with Jenna, in 2019. See all of the 'Today with Jenna and Sheinelle' show co-host's 2026 selections here.

You know that feeling when you finish a book and just have to discuss it with someone? That's a great book club book. Here are 20 tried-and-true titles that are sure to get the conversation started.

Children and an adult read books at the Altadena Main Library in Altadena, Calif., in March 2025. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images After decades of stagnating ...

Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge to see how many books you can read in a year. Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December – some of ...

A few weeks ago, we asked NPR staffers to share their all-time favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great to read by a pool or on a plane, it was fair game. Scroll ...

J.K. Rowling's bestselling "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is one of the best books for teens. This list of teen book rankings is based on honors the books have received, reader ratings on ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.