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

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff ... the best-selling author Alan Lightman ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford was a prolific author whose debut book A Woman Of Substance is one of the best-selling novels of all ...

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.