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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Oline Cogdill’s favorite mystery novels of 2024, a year marked by rich plots, diverse and fully realized characters and vivid settings.

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

After penning one of the most famous, successful, and yet controversial novels of its time and future, Harper Lee became ...

When a guidebook he wrote for American soldiers overseas sold out, he launched what became one of the travel industry’s ...

The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as ...

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The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — ...