The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...

Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ...

People can be snobs about science fiction, and I admit that until a few years back I was one of them. Meanwhile, I had ...

The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...

6 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with ...

In honor of Black History Month, the Munday Library along with the Coalition for Black Faculty and Staff hosted a Read-In ...

Another reason this theme rings true is that it’s the theme of the All-Time best-selling book, which Warren’s book was based upon. Warren’s book is based upon the words of Jesus, and Jesus tells us ...

Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

Celebrate Black History Month with a good book. Our readers recommended 50+ stories to dive into this February and beyond.

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.