To help jump start your 2026 reading, especially if you need to get out of a reading slump, we’ve got nine suggestions that range from literary fiction to thriller to poetry. These books are around or ...

Aim to bump older, culturally important, or much-recommended works to the top of your to-be-read list. This is an edition of ...

This collection of essays written over the span of a quarter century by literary critic Brooke Allen is elegant, erudite, and ...

An eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas, says only two of her 110 students can read at grade level, a revelation ...

The letter Z often feels unfamiliar to students. It appears less often than other letters, and when it does appear, the words ...

In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

One criticism of the science of reading is that phonics can be boring. Gee Macrory, a British scholar, says that decodable ...

Pulling up to The Henson, a boutique hotel in the Catskills, it hit me what I was about to do: spend 48 hours with 14 strangers reading a book out loud. I’ve dreaded reading aloud since my elementary ...

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On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media. The newspaper ...