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In advance of this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, we're unveiling our Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf. Find out which novels, memoirs and more made our list.

Steven Spielberg might've never directed Jaws had another filmmaker not irked the original book's author, Peter Benchley, during their first meeting.

Here’s the ten best historical novels published so far this year, as chosen by our critics. We’ll be updating the list regularly so it’s well worth bookmarking

“Tabby literally picked it out of the wastebasket and brushed off the cigarette ash. She read it in bed and said, ‘This is good, you should go on.’”

Celebrate the life and career of Louis Gossett Jr. by revisiting the Oscar winners best movies and TV shows.

Movies are often entertaining, but they're not always accurate. Understandably, many filmmakers are more interested in creating dramatic, stirring films

Killer sharks, rats, bunnies, and bats made for a scary decade.

/PRNewswire/ -- In February 1974, Peter Benchley published his debut novel, Jaws. It became an instant best seller, and the rest was history. Fifty years later...

Though sport fishing tournaments and other activities led to population declines in the 1970s and 1980s, more recent science and conservation efforts have helped the sharks rebound

​In 1974, Peter Benchleys bestselling novel Jaws fanned this fear into a wildfire that spread around the world. The book sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. within a year and was quickly followed by Steven Spielbergs 1975 movie, which became the highest-grossing film in history at that time.