Books

The library's regional manager says they couldn't keep author Colleen Hoovers books on shelves. The next big book they're preparing for? Prince Harry's 'Spare.'

It's our literary hour today on Cincinnati Edition. Our guest experts answer your questions about what to read this season.

The regional book festival is this weekend at the Duke Energy Convention Center.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced Wednesday that Haygood — himself originally from Columbus, Ohio — will receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. He is the author of multiple nonfiction books chronicling the lives of 20th-century Black Americans.

He’s written about Devo, the tire industry and the Rust Belt. Now, author David Giffels is turning his 2009 memoir “All the Way Home” into a half-hour series, working alongside the creative minds behind the television series “The Goldbergs” and the 2016 film “Ordinary World."

Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours speaking with the woman known as Jane Roe. He describes her as an imperfect plaintiff.

Lexington resident Ada Limón was named as the nation's 24th poet laureate by the Library of Congress. She will take over from Joy Harjo, who has held the position since 2019.

Dwayne Ratleff's novel is a memoir of a turbulent era. 'Dancing to the Lyrics' recounts his childhood in Ohio and Maryland during the Civil Rights era while trying to discover his gender identity and survive an abusive stepfather. It won a Best Indie Book Award in 2021.

Poets laureate and other literary luminaries from all 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico recommend quintessential reads that illuminate where they live.

Kentucky's state song has a complicated past in which we see the ability to deny the realities of slavery.