Get the latest news, events and more from the Los Angeles Times Book Club, and help us get L.A. reading and talking. Your ultimate L.A. Bookshelf is here — a guide to the 110 essential L.A. books, ...

Our columnist on three of the year’s most anticipated books. By Olivia Waite Jem Calder’s novel, “I Want You to Be Happy,” follows the flailing situationship between two aspiring writers with a ...

Julie Buntin’s novel “Famous Men” complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent. By Lauren Christensen Homer’s “Odyssey” is back in the headlines with this summer’s movie production, ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

Writing is our testament, granting anyone a way to defect from the present, and providing even the godless with a faith that ...