Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

My colleagues and I felt this way over the past few months as we undertook the challenging, thrilling task of assembling a ...

Considered to be one of the great American novels, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" follows Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer as they travel along the Mississippi River and through the 19th ...

The concept emerged following the concept of the “Great American Novel,” which was first popularized ... consensus rather than a formalized list. Some that are most widely considered a part ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

Scott Fitzgerald lamented that The Great Gatsby couldn’t hold a candle to her books. In 1938, Sinclair Lewis called her the greatest living American ... Cather in a list of prominent Catholic ...