The news cycle is driving us to the edge of madness, so why not switch off, unplug and pick up a book? We know you could use a laugh right now — and luckily, several thousand of you told us all about the books, stories and poems that make you laugh. We t

Susan Straight has called Riverside home her entire life. The arid, inland California city may be much more unassuming than neighboring Los Angeles, but for the acclaimed author, Riverside’s diverse community holds myriad stories that have provided endles

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Susan Straight’s memoir “In the Country of Women” is at its core an extended letter to her three daughters, Gaila, Delphine and Rosette Sims. This book, Straight writes, will be about the generations of women — from both Straight’s and their father Dwayne

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Both of these novels are in different ways about refugees, and both gave me both pleasure and much food for thought this past year. Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's EXIT WEST imagines the world suddenly (and magically) overrun by refugees, but provides

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Less than a century ago, a group of American cultural anthropologists used their research about other societies to combat racism, which was centered on fears that America’s supposed racial purity was being defiled by immigration. These anthropologists, wh

The first dystopian novels that gave me chills were in English lit class: George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Orwell’s concepts of “doublethink” and “newspeak,” used to spread political propaganda and manipulate the masses, resona

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The entire list of books — all released this year between January and June — is pretty massive. But the nine must-reads below will help to elevate your finances, success and overall happiness in life