The Christian Science Monitor

Oprah guru Eckhart Tolle shares lessons from the higher masters: the animals.

For the brave reader ready to tackle it, this sprawling text offers a fascinating glimpse of a corner of America at work.

Vladimir Nabokov’s last unfinished manuscript feels like a generous gift to readers.

This story of a Maine town trapped under a dome shows Stephen King at the height of his powers.

Spurred by the birth of his son, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer investigates the system that puts meat on our plates.

"Gorky Park" is a thriller that grapples with one man's search for meaning.

'Raven Summer’ leads two teens to both adventure and danger in this evocative young adult novel.

“A Rumpole Christmas” makes a holiday treat for the mystery lover on your shopping list.

This affectionate biography of Theolonius Monk fills in the backstory of an artist the world has long wished to know better.

What is a memoir – and when and why did we go so crazy for the genre?

On the 150th anniversary of the discovery of petroleum in the US, "Crude World" prepares us for petroleum’s demise.

A look at the meteoric rise of Google.

In Alice Sebold's debut novel, the dead must learn to let go, too

This is the best one-volume history of the invasion of Normandy yet written.

A life on the lam leads to a career as a novelist in John Irving’s new novel.