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

By Linda Holmes 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 ...

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

Parker was 35 when she wrote that. Old age seemed to come on earlier back in the day. I’m thinking especially of poor Edward ...

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

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 ...

The chance of being a crime victim in the subway is remote. But riders feel far more at risk than they do driving on New York ...

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

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on ...

Jon Klassen, a Caldecott medalist, is the author-illustrator of the picture books “I Want My Hat Back,” “This Is Not My Hat” ...

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

A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment ... He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his ...