BOOKS

If kids wanted a free pizza from Pizza Hut, all they had to do was start reading as part of the Book It! program.

"I, Claudius" follows an emperor who played dumb to survive, and this historical fiction novel by Robert Graves became an immediate success.

Since J.K. Rowling launched Pottermore in 2012, she's been steadily revealing secrets of the wizarding world.

Most everyone knows the story of Edmond Dantès, the wrongfully-incarcerated hero of 'The Count of Monte Cristo.' But how familiar are you really with the classic?

Even the world's most accomplished authors and poets occasionally suffer from this terrifying affliction.

The title page of this guide to the world's fauna rightly boasts "13 coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text." The illustrations are the best part.

Orwell never acknowledged that he borrowed from 'We,' but the uncanny similarities make it hard to conclude otherwise.

'The Bell Jar,' which came out just one month before Sylvia Plath died by suicide at age 30, is the writer's only published novel.

Even if you’ve already read about Winston Smith’s struggle against Big Brother, there are a few facts, stories, and theories about 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' that are worth a closer look.

The horror icon would really rather you not read any of these.

C.S. Lewis’s most popular non-Narnia novel is a delicious, perceptive treatise on the weaknesses of human nature. Here are 12 little-known facts about The Screwtape Letters, its development, and its enduring impact.

For his 1952 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea,' Ernest Hemingway based some qualities of his lead character on his own fishing boat captain.