By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) Look for a present for the hard-to-buy for-reader? Here is an exotic assortment of worthy books for the holiday season and beyond. For readers...

By Jim Higgins Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) “What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy” by Jo Walton; Tor ($26.99) ——— What makes...

(ARCHIVE PHOTOS, ARCHIVE CARICATURE) By Nicole Brodeur The Seattle Times (MCT) Still a funny, that Dave Barry. A phone conversation with him is like sitting in the audience in a comedy club....

By Amy Driscoll The Miami Herald (MCT) MIAMI — With the runaway success of “Gone Girl,” Gillian Flynn has arrived. After more than a year on bestseller lists, her deliciously poisonous...

By James Barragan Los Angeles Times (MCT) The memoir “12 Years a Slave” was published in 1853, a year after Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Now Solomon Northup’s...

By Laurie Hertzel Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo won the John Newbery Medal on Monday for her book “Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures,”...

(ARCHIVE PHOTOS) By Dawn Turner Trice Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO — When editors at Chicago’s Third World Press purchased the rights to publish a book containing Malcolm X’s diary,...

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs; Quirk Books, Philadelphia (399 pages, $17.99) Talented...

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ and ‘Mystery!’ On PBS” by Rebecca Eaton; Penguin, NY (300 pages,...

Christa Lawler Duluth News Tribune   For the past five years, lit lovers in Norway have had access to an award-winning crime novel set on Minnesota's North Shore. Word got back to the...