Books

Purdue researchers found students who quizzed themselves after reading retained 50 percent more a week later than those who re-read or made concept maps.

The children's books that endure — from Where the Wild Things Are to Matilda — and why the best gift is a grown-up willing to read alongside the child.

Part travelogue, part confession: Gregory David Roberts' 2003 epic follows an escaped Australian convict into the slums and underworld of Bombay.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers argues that success owes as much to timing, culture, and 10,000 hours as to talent. A review of the year's most enjoyable read.

NPR's Rob Sachs wrote an irreverent guide to surviving life's daily indignities — clogged toilets, dog poop, and all. A review.

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters landed November 16, 2010, illustrated by Loren Long — and Obama gave the proceeds to military families' scholarships.

India's informal used-book economy went online in the 2010s. How platforms like Bookoholics collapsed the geography of secondhand reading.