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Articles

7 extremely funny books written by women

Shelf Life: Stig Abell on five books that made him

Life-affirming novellas from Penguin Classics

The importance of Gay's the Word, the first place I'll be going after lockdown

Where to start reading Anne Tyler's books

The debate: is it ok to stop reading books you don't like?

Footnotes: Happy birthday The Great Gatsby, a book that changed American literature

The books that inspired Disney's most famous movies

'Tales of the City' taught me the importance of finding your chosen family when you're LGBTQ

Reading rituals: what's your strangest book habit?

Acts of kindness – celebrating our nurses and the NHS

Why people are turning to pandemic fiction to help process the Covid-19 crisis

Books that defined the 1920s

The debate: how many books should you have on the go at once?

8 environmental classics to get you in the mood for spring

Books to transport you to different places and times

Shelf Life: Nicola Sturgeon on the books that changed her

12 books to lose yourself in if you're staying indoors

Raynor Winn’s favourite nature writing books

What I'm reading: Cash Carraway

The best books to buy new mums

How your choice of bookmark can tell its own strange story

What the size of your reading pile says about you

Books to read if you loved Hilary Mantel's 'The Mirror & The Light'

Weekly quiz: Can you match these famous quotes with their author?

'Out damned spot': the Lady Macbeth hand-washing scene that became a Coronavirus meme

How Andy Warhol subverted gender to radicalise modern art

I read The Secret History through three labours; it brought me comfort in joy, as well as grief

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