The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.

Buy it on Amazon. This book is undeniably one of the best novels of the twentieth century. It is a gripping saga about the Corleone family and their world of organized crime. Buy on Amazon.

This month, pile your nightstand with a biography of one of TV's greatest stars, a look inside the grand homes of early 20th-century England ... T&C's picks for the best books of November 2024.

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

“My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for considering how fiction responded to a century of fact, and though the books ...