Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...

Kristin Hannah: I was not one of those people who always wanted to be a writer. I was a huge reader of course. I was that kid on every family vacation who had their nose in a book and my family ...

It’s time to find out with the list of most read books for another week. The Women by Kristin Hannah was the only new addition to the list. This new addition isn’t all that surprising.

The Women is a novel, but Kristin Hannah bases it on sustained research into military ... She chooses her words carefully, for words are, as Frankie observes at one point, “creators of worlds.” Hannah ...