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

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 ...

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

This year saw plenty of excellent books, as usual, on the 20th century – but the real gems were revelatory examinations of ...

Here are T&C's picks for the best books of November 2024 ... from the decline of the British aristocracy at the turn of the 20th century, to the rise of fascism in the ’30s, to the birth ...

No spoilers here, but Stephen King calls Carrion Comfort "one of the greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." We couldn't resist another Stephen King entry on this list ...

“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 ...