It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...

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Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...

By Jennifer Harlan Jennifer Harlan is an editor at the Book Review. There are few pleasures as delicious as losing yourself in a great fantasy book. By day, you may be going through the humdrum ...