Comment on Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

Zora Neale Hurston did not mince words about race and gender. Now we can read them, unfiltered.

Robert Gottlieb's portrait of the eccentric actress explores her conflicting needs for companionship and privacy.

Lea Ypi recalls her childhood in Albania and the nation's swift, disorienting shift away from communism.

Christopher Leonard focuses on Thomas Hoenig, onetime president of the Kansas City Fed, to explore the policy implications.

In "Small World," short chapters and sheer eventfulness keep the story chugging along.

The best-selling author of “It Ends With Us” has struck a chord with her emotional novels.