The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 15, 2026, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

If you've binged the Netflix hit and devoured Julia Quinn's books, these bodice-rippers should be on your TBR list.

XO Éditions, a leading French publishing house, announces that its flagship author Mireille Calmel, a major figure in French medieval historical fiction, is about to cross the symbolic milestone of 4.

Diane is reading bodice rippers,” he said, citing the old-fashioned name for sexually explicit romance novels. Back then, they were my guilty pleasure. More than 30 years later, I remain a fan of ...

In a clip that resurfaced recently, the polarizing influencer explained why. Books, he argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a low-velocity medium: “I need action. I need ...

Fans of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' will recognise the same grounded fantasy, political intrigue, and wandering hero stories here., Books, Times Now ...

This week’s challenge is focused on really long reads — novels originally published in a single volume that run past 1,000 ...

The books featured in this installment of Literary Links feature a cast of ne'er-do-wells and grifters, including some from ...

New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.

This isn’t Enrigue’s first foray into historical absurdism. His previous novel published in English, You Dreamed of Empires, retells the encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec ...

Coming at a time when horror is becoming more mainstream, it sits at the intersection of psychological horror, historical ...