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Eleanor Brown Writing to Answer a Question The idea of the struggling novelist may be cliche, but Eleanor Brown--our general fiction judge--lends honesty and depth to the notion because she's [...]

Even after more than 30 years, readers are still eager to follow the stories set in the small Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon (population: about 1,200). After a four-year hiatus, [...]

We think it's a record--there are nine mass market bestsellers debuting on this week's chart, and seven of them are among the top 10. Another first-time event is a Nora [...]

Tolkien-related books fly off the shelves long before the box office results are in It may seem silly to talk about word-of-mouth for a 50-year-old book, but that's exactly what's [...]

Robin Cook's name is synonymous with medical thrillers. He's landed many books of this kind on the national charts over the last two decades. His latest, Shock, focuses on subjects [...]

Sandra Brown is another favorite author who also manages to land a number of books on the charts each year. Her latest from Warner, Envy, lands in the #2 hardcover [...]

The public's seemingly unending fascination with the late Princess of Wales continues with her offspring, as scrutinized by Christopher Andersen in Diana's Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They [...]

The Ritual Bath, Faye Kellerman's first book to star Lt. Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife, Rina Lazarus, was published in 1990 and won the Macavity Award for Best [...]

That's what Nicholas Evans did with his debut novel, The Horse Whisperer, back in 1995. The Delacorte title went on to become one of the fastest-selling first novels in publishing [...]

While Evans and Margolin are racking up sales at the chains, the newest hot title on the indie and regional track is Leif Enger's debut novel, Peace Like a River. [...]

Phillip Margolin's eighth bestseller, The Associate, is following the same path as his previous seven--right onto the national bestseller charts, landing today in our #11 spot. It's his second book [...]

I don't say that just because for decades he taught English at a Connecticut high school or because he went on to create a writing program, first at Connecticut College, [...]

Publisher Responsibility and Bret Easton Ellis The fuss that has erupted over Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, its last-minute cancellation by Simon & Schuster and its immediate takeover by Vintage [...]