Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow.

The Korean web fiction “Under the Oak Tree” has made its way onto The New York Times’ (NYT) Best Sellers list, setting a ...

Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a 1985 fiction book about a brutally totalitarian government that enslaves women, shot to the second spot on Amazon’s best-sellers list (from its place in ...