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

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

enlightening and influential young-adult books, in chronological order beginning in the 1800s Firekeeper's Daughter ...

thrilling task of assembling a list of the great American novels—136 works of fiction that we consider to be the most ...

Years ago, when I published an essay referring to James Baldwin—born a century ago this year—as “the greatest of all African-American writers,” a friend called me on the claim. Was Baldwin really ...

The now-beloved book, which centers on a sailor seeking revenge against a sperm whale, was initially met with lukewarm sales, ...