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I have chosen three very different books for this month's review, two of which I can highly recommend and one which sadly left me disappointed.

David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits And The Art Of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell a ...a ...a ...a ...aoe© David and Goliath.

2. White Girls , by Hilton Als These essays are in turns confounding and astounding.

When it came time to pick our 2013 Performer of the Year it would have been easy enough to use last year's entry as a template and simply give it to Matthew McConaughey again.

The Swedish publisher of the best-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by the late Stieg Larsson.

Each year, Amazon's book editors choose the best books of the year. Recently, the Amazon Book Editors announed their 2013 Best Books of the Year, naming Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" as Best Book of the Year.

What's on your nightstand when you're at the helm of a fast-growing startup? The founders we asked proved that inspiration doesn't just come from the usual list of books on leadership and management but more intriguingly an eclectic mix of science fiction, personal essays and even the odd chemistry textbook.

Our annual list is here! This time, we channeled each hack's unique voice -- and let them "write" their own entries In the summer of 2012, the writer Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker.

On Wednesday morning NYT Magazine writer and This Town author Mark Leibovich will be among the star guests at a Politico Playbook breakfast.

We live in the present time of 'organized chaos' - not the 'static linearity' of the past.

Every entrepreneur has one thing in common: too much free time. Day in and day out, CEOs, presidents and the like all seem to sit around twiddling their thumbs.

Director, writer and producer Jonathan W. Stokes has signed on to adapt "Six Years," the 2013 Harlan Coben novel that Paramount Pictures plans to produce as a potential star vehicle for Hugh Jackman , according to Deadline.com.

Dan Brown 's latest Robert Langdon caper, "Inferno," was Amazon.com's No. 1 seller for 2013, the online retailer announced Monday.

I read about 50 books a year. Here's my 10 favorite this year, some mysteries, some young adult books about different facets of special education and one memoir, all in no particular order.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck" by Jeff Kinney 2. "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition" by Carol V. Aebersold and Chanda B. Bell 3. "Cross My Heart" by James Patterson 4. "Divergent" by Veronica Roth 5. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak 6. "Sycamore Row" by John Grisham 7. "Takedown Twenty" by Janet Evanovich 8. "Allegiant" by Veronica ... (more)

It's probably not much of a surprise to most readers that Russian president Vladimir Putin landed at the top of The Advocate's 2013 Phobie Awards.

In The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism , Doris Kearns Goodwin-the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals-brings her trademark blend of scholarship, intellectual rigor and riveting storytelling to the turbulent and fateful relationship between two ... (more)

A Doncaster librarian has joined Harry Potter author JK Rowling to be named one of the UK's top literacy heros.

Jessie Mueller as Carole King with cast in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theater But to her alma mater she'll always be Carol Klein, a distinguished member of the class of '58 at Brooklyn's James Madison High School.

"The Goldfinch," by Donna Tartt A young man clings to a painting years after surviving an explosion at a museum that killed his mother.