Brand new audio book recordings of Ian Fleming's classic James Bond stories are finally coming to the UK, with Richard Armitage and Adjoa Andoh among the famous names bringing them to life.

For all those times, there’s no better place to turn than audiobooks. But not all audiobooks are created equal. Some have a narrator you just can’t stand, a cast that’s a little too full of ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most influential fantasy narrative of the past century. But few things ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index ...

In a world where evolving technology reshapes how we consume information and stories, the conversation between reading and audiobooks continues. Both have their perks, but studies suggest one might ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang, to a ...

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With 2025 in full swing, brand-new titles are ready to fly off bookstore shelves and straight into your arms—or, at least, into your towering to-be-read pile that continues to grow with each ...

Audiobooks are the recordings of your favorite author or via many voiceover artists, who make it easily accessible for physically abled or other native speaking groups to relate with your content more ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.