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

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Newsweek staff has gathered an eclectic list of classics and new favorite reads that will appeal, no matter how choosy the ...

I’m going to list the 14 best fantasy series of all time. There are some operative ... The Dark Tower is a genre-blending ...

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Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J Charles (Reaktion) This fascinating book explores the medieval process of ...

2024 wraps up another stellar year for crime fiction. Rich plots ... Moore’s nonlinear plot follows a banking family from the time they bought land for a camp in the Adirondacks, showing ...

It’s out in time for Christmas, and it sounds delightfully ... Lots of treats to dip into and out of, for all of us who may be feeling a little too hectic to settle down with a whole novel.

A good historical novel has the power to transport us back to a different time ... all the recent books offering female-focused retellings of old legends and sagas, they’re among the very best.

Cozy up this fall with our picks for the best fiction ... books in, Penny still has capers aplenty for her series’ hero, Quebec’s Chief Inspector Gamache, to tackle. This time — fueled ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ... and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life ...

In the spring, Faber’s best prospects will be books by Eimear McBride ... once and for all, the incompatibility of good fiction, which is rich and complex, with “cancel culture”, which ...