Ursula K. Le Guin
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100 Best Books
Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young-adult fiction. Now, after all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Here are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR audience.
Summer Books 2011
Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. Explore the winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey — an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles.
Best Books of 2008
Alan Cheuse's Top Fiction Picks For 2008
by Alan Cheuse
Reading shouldn't be work; it should be pleasure, even as it teaches us something about ourselves, or about the world of history and time.
Book Reviews
Three Famed Novelists Weave Exhilarating Tales
by Alan Cheuse
Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring, and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. The resulting novels, says reviewer Alan Cheuse, are a thrill and a privilege to read.
Books
Novel Gives Roman Maiden Her Moment in the Sun
In Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, the maiden Lavinia marries a Trojan hero but barely gets to utter a word. Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin picks up where the classic poet left off in her historical novel Lavinia. Le Guin recreates the life and times of a forgotten heroine.
Summer Reading: Kids
Excerpt: 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
by Ursula Le Guin
This story, recommended for fans of Harry Potter, tells the adventures of sorcerer Ged and the difficult tests he must face before he can attempt to re-establish the balance of power in his world.
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