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TORONTO — Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid and Susan Musgrave are among the well-known finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards. The Canada Council for the Arts named 70 finalists across seven categories in both English and French on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare's plays, including one that sells for $1,500.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Exchange by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 2. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 3. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (Gallery Books) 4.

The premise of “America Fantastica,” the latest work by novelist Tim O'Brien, feels like the standard plot for a crime caper.

NEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward. On Tuesday, Winfrey announced she had selected Ward's “Let Us Descend,” which comes out this week.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Gov.

Ever wonder how Homo sapiens got so smart? How come we developed actual language when all the other animals didn’t? How about what first made a nematode turn its body in a different direction? Or… what’s a nematode? Answers to those questions and muc

Rejoice, comrades! Almost 75 years after George Orwell’s “1984” was published in 1949, readers can return to Airstrip One with its Newspeak and Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love and Plenty.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian action thriller that tells a gripping story of corruption and police brutality in Africa’s most populous country has reached record viewership numbers on Netflix charts globally.