Author Interviews

Actress and author Lauren Graham's Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) took home his year's Goodreads Choice Award for Humor. Graham tells us about her writing process, her book club, and the best life advice she can offer.

Voters awarded two Goodreads Choice Awards to author Angie Thomas' young adult novel, The Hate U Give. This searing account of a teenage girl whose friend is killed by a police officer won both the Young Adult Fiction and Debut Author categories. Thomas talks to Goodreads about her whirlwind year.

Andy Weir's first novel, The Martian, was a stellar success and was adapted into a hit movie starring Matt Damon. How does he follow that up? With a thriller set on the moon in Artemis.

The author of White Oleander takes readers inside the St. Petersburg bourgeoisie in The Revolution of Marina M. Fitch tells us about her love of Russian history and recommends some great Russian novels.

In her 40-year writing career, Hoffman has written in nearly every genre. Now she's headed back to some of her most beloved characters in The Rules of Magic, a prequel to her tale of modern witches, Practical Magic.

The author of the experimental and Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad writes a "normal" WWII novel about a female Navy diver, a handsome gangster, and a missing father in Manhattan Beach.

Two years after her hit debut, Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng's sophomore effort, Little Fires Everywhere is set to become another success. Ng talked to us about race relations in the 1990s, the power of the subconscious mind, and her fear of writing about her hometown.

The author of Salvage the Bones talks about going back home to Mississippi to write, exploring both history and the supernatural, and the journey at the heart of Sing, Unburied, Sing.

Fresh off the series finale of HBO's adaptation of The Leftovers, Perrotta is back with a look at sex and midlife second-guessing. "I'm very interested in sex and the way that ideas about sex and what's permissible keep changing. So the fun of the book is to take a middle-aged person and plunge them into what is a youthful world of dating and sex," he says.

The author of The Emperor's Children explores the friendship between two girls threatened by impending adulthood in her new book, The Burning Girl. "For everybody—but for girls, certainly—there's a lot of growing up that involves…the word that comes to mind is damage," says Messud.

After her bestselling debut, Behind Closed Doors, the mystery writer is back with her second novel. She confesses that until recently she'd kept her literary success a secret—even from her closest friends.

Prolific thriller writer Michael Connelly kicks off a new series (and introduces readers to police officer Renée Ballard, based on one of Connelly's friends) in The Late Show.

Twenty years after The God of Small Things, Roy's second novel arrives this month. She talks about her political activism in India and how she found the plot of her new book.

The master of spine-tingling fiction is back with a new series, a new heroine, and a new look at the dangers of technology. But would he ever go completely off the grid?

In Beartown the author of A Man Called Ove focuses on a small Swedish town with a winning junior hockey team…and a violent crime against a young girl.

America's favorite astrophysicist wants to unveil the mysteries of the universe for those who are curious (but busy) in Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

In The Pilot's Wife author's new novel, The Stars Are Fire, a tragic 1947 fire in Maine destroys a woman's life and leaves her husband missing.

The author of The Lost City of Z explores the true 1920s murders of oil-rich Osage tribe members in Oklahoma and the birth of the FBI in Killers of the Flower Moon.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist author explores magical realism and the mental toll of war in Exit West, which follows the plight of two refugees in love.

The author of the Snow Flower and the Secret Fan returns to China with The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.

The author of the Shopaholic series turns her attention to our collective social media obsession with My Not So Perfect Life—and gets real about the pursuit of perfection.

The Tenth of December author has written his first novel with Lincoln in the Bardo, which imagines President Lincoln grieving beside his son's grave as he's visited by a series of otherworldly guests.

The Sex Pistols' guitarist is a recovering addict, thief, and rock legend. With Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, he explores punk rock, his dodgy childhood, and the one book he's read.

This Bad Feminist author is best known for her essays and columns. Now she's back with Difficult Women, a collection of short stories. She talks to us about feminism, influences, and who would play her in a movie.

The actress and author returns to the beginning of Star Wars—and talks about her secret affair with costar Harrison Ford in the memoir The Princess Diarist.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author weaves together his family's own history with world history in Moonglow, a novel-disguised-as-memoir about truth, lies, and mythology.

The author of the Twilight series is back! Meyer tells us how she embraced her inner fangirl and used Jason Bourne as inspiration for her new spy thriller, The Chemist.

"I want my readers to be thinking, 'Wait, did that just really happen?'" The Where'd You Go, Bernadette author talks mom guilt, fear, and her new book, Today Will Be Different.

The Good in Bed author pours her soul (and, yes, heart) into her memoir, Hungry Heart, which explores stories about sex, weight, and more with Weiner's signature wit.