This year, for the first time, our holiday books recommendations include the year’s best books. Selected from the books our reviewers loved, we celebrate the best fiction of 2017, in alphabetical ...

This year, Greater Good‘s editorial staff read a wide variety of books, making it tough to narrow down our favorites. That’s why this year’s list is a little longer than usual. Many of this year’s ...

As the year draws to a close, critics, reviewers, websites, and awards committees have been presenting their roundups of the year’s favorites. We’ve gathered a list of the more prominent ...

Truly, 2017 is The Big Year for wonderful popular science books about biology. It’s taken me one agonizing week to narrow down my choices for the best biology books of 2017 into a stack that can be ...

More than just a memoir about college basketball — although it is that, from one of the greatest players of all time — Abdul-Jabbar recounts his lifelong friendship with UCLA coach John Wooden, and ...

Miriam Gurba’s brilliant memoir is expansive. She weaves together personal narrative, true crime and poetry seamlessly, the disparate parts united by a razor-sharp wit and a stunning richness of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Between memorable Twitter threads and constant push notifications, 2017 might have kept you tethered to your phone. But there were also many books that came out this year that contain valuable lessons ...

One thing’s for sure in a newsroom: It’s full of readers. And 2017 was another great year to be a reader. Here’s a look at 20 titles published this year that we here at The Oregonian/OregonLive are ...

Most of my favorite new books of 2017 are nonfiction. Many are short. More than a few emphasize writing that's either graceful or pointedly concise. This suggests that the books that spoke to me cut ...

The was the year of reading voraciously. Why? Because literary fiction by veterans continues to achieve mainstream recognition, and nonfiction becomes more inclusive. Unsung women decipher enemy plans ...