"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." But even if you already know what type of books you like, it can be fun to expand your horizons and ...

If you’ve ever found yourself reading the same type of book over and over, you’re not alone. It’s easy to fall into a reading rut, gravitating toward familiar authors or genres that feel like comfort ...

There are many different types of fiction genres, but they all have one thing in common: that the stories are made up. If these ducks were in a mystery story, then there might be a crime for a ...

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

On www.FanFiction.net — an online archive for those who put their own spins on existing books, TV shows, movies and comic books — there are hundreds of thousands of “fan fiction” works. Here are the ...

Alif the Unseen, the 2012 debut novel of G. Willow Wilson, takes an inventive approach to the contemporary techno thriller. Its titular hacktivist is a freelance security provider trying to evade the ...

Late in the recent Andrew Niccol film In Time, criminal villain Alex Pettyfer forces protagonist Justin Timberlake to participate in a “wrestling match.” It’s meant to be one of the movie’s big action ...

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