Below, selections by The New York Times’s daily book critics of their favorite titles from the past 12 months. ... and here are some of the books they admired most in 2021.

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. ... 9 New Books We Recommend This Week. ... 2021, when the costs of the pandemic are clear and the psychological toll is still ...

By The New York Times Books Staff. ... the story of Abed Salama’s search for his 5-year-old son after a bus crash on the outskirts of Jerusalem in a 2021 piece for The New York Review of Books.