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

We know novels have the power to take us to different places and time periods. And with biographical historical fiction books ...

By Alida Becker In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat. By Hari Kunzru A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a ...

Author Susan Corso's "Subversive Lovelies" series, set in New York's Gilded Age, explores the lives of four sisters who ...

Historical fiction continues to captivate readers in 2025, offering windows into the past while exploring timeless human ...

The 72-year-old New Orleanian is about to publish his 12th book, a work of historical fiction based on the life of Robert ...

Spread the love “Whispers from the Berlin Wall” by Greta Schmidt A touching story of families divided by the Cold War. “Gold ...

Scotland’s so-called “Queen of Crime,” Val McDermid, has created an engrossing, page-turning counternarrative about one of Shakespeare’s great villains, Lady Macbeth. McDermid sets the record straight ...

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 ...