To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 20, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his ...

An English professor from Auburn University has “sanitized” Mark Twain’s masterpiece by replacing all 219 uses of the word “nigger” with “slave.” From our morning news briefing to a ...

Some even misinterpreted it as a reference to Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The impact of the dialogue was massive, as Val Kilmer named his 2020 memoir I'm Your Huckleberry ...