Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in December.

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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The 75th National Book Awards celebrated with a ceremony, comedy from Kate McKinnon and music from Jon Batiste. Percival ...

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The Irish fiction writer says her reading life ‘could have gone terribly wrong’ but someone slipped her Joan Didion.

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