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.

Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. FICTION Following her 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating ...

The Book Review’s art director picks his favorite covers from a year that reminded him of the joys of picking up a book and holding it in his hands. By Matt Dorfman I spent more time browsing in ...

Each year around now, The New York Times’s book critics choose their favorite books from among those they reviewed over the previous 12 months. We also ask them to gather to discuss their years ...

On the 2021 panel were Catherine Hong, a children’s literature critic; Jessica Agudelo, a youth collections librarian at the New York Public Library; and Paul O. Zelinsky, a Caldecott Medal ...

The shortlists for the National Book Awards will be made public on Oct. 5. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Nov. 17. Below is a complete list of the 2021 nominees in all five categories.

On Nov. 30, Times subscribers were the first to find out what made this year’s 10 Best Books list from editors of The Book Review and a guest, Lena Waithe. By The New York Times How do editors ...

Talking About the Best Books of 2021 On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction.

LITTLE ELEGIES FOR SISTER SATAN, by Michael Palmer.(New Directions, 117 pp., paper, $16.95.) It was a good year for our older poets, with new books by legends like Frank Bidart and Louise Glück ...

The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor. BLANCAFLOR, THE HERO WITH SECRET POWERS A Folktale From Latin America ...

She moves to New York for college, but just as she’s figuring out the city’s rhythms, she meets Jane Su: gorgeous, badass, amnesiac — and trapped on the Q train since 1976. Image Sorrowland ...

The Best Cookbooks of 2021 test. A deep dive into the world of grains, a collection of new cookie classics, unforgettable recipes from Shanghai and more, as tested by New York Times Cooking and ...