The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon.

Writer David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with his novel “Flesh,” the story of an ordinary man’s life over several decades.

Booker Prize-winning Indian author Kiran Desai is a favorite to win the prestigious fiction award again.

Indian author Kiran Desai is up for the award again with her new novel “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”.