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The best way to read “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is with a pair of headphones and a collection of the band's albums on streaming services or CDs. Opt for the cassettes or vinyl if you want to go old school.

Three clucks to Sy Montgomery, who 14 years after publishing “Birdology,” is still finding ways to make money off the charming stories she told in that book about various avian species.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Seconds," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools.

MONTREAL — A U.S. historian's book on North America's Indigenous history, “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” has won the Cundill History Prize.

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of “Daisy Jones & The Six” is aiming high with her next book. Taylor Jenkins Reid's “Atmosphere: A Love Story” is a romance set during the space shuttle program of the 1980s.

NEW YORK (AP) — As he approached his mid-90s, pioneering Black businessman George E. Johnson unexpectedly found himself determined — even called — to write his memoir.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. In Too Deep by Andrew Child & Lee Child (Random House Publishing Group) 2. The Waiting by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tina Knowles will have a memoir out next spring with a title that will not surprise her many admirers.

NEW YORK (AP) — The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association.