books

The famed author wrote the one-act comedy when he was in his early 20s.

Tolkien discusses his inspirations, and wishes he could talk to trees.

Drugs, skeletons, madness, and children's books—and you thought history was boring.

Art director Keith Hayes knows we're all guilty of judging a book by its cover.

Lynn Friedman, Flickr // CC BY NC-ND 2.0

The choices are as personal as the experience of reading a book.

The first official James Bond adventure to come out after Ian Fleming's death was a critical hit—but the author's identity was a mystery.

The boy detective could never quite solve the mystery of why he never got the Harry Potter treatment.

In their own words.

It's no surprise that the Harry Potter Series comes up more than once.

The author tells us about her musical beginnings, dirty laundry, and love of index cards.

Hollywood often turns to books for movie ideas, but sometimes the films are so popular they overshadow their source material.

Who reads more, young people or old people?

The library’s extensive Witchcraft Collection is open to the public and available online.

The tales in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark have terrified kids for decades.

The first installment of Alvin Schwartz’s 'Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark' trilogy hit bookshelves in 1981. The series would become a preteen cult classic and among the most banned books of the following decades.

The Mütter Museum recently discovered it owns the nation's largest collection of books bound in human leather—and now a research team is trying to track down the rest of the world’s examples.