Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in ...

These include Jacquelyne Jackson, the pioneering Black sociologist, and Maggie Kuhn, the charismatic founder of the advocacy ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.

In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp ...

Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now ...

As the year winds down, the last of the big buzzy films have hit the screen — and these five were based largely on memoirs ...

By Amanda Hess His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. The author of ...