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

George Washington has gone from pious moral instructor of youth in early 19th-century biographies (“I cannot tell a lie”) to ...

At his Madison Square Garden event a week before the election, Donald Trump went on an extended riff about the famous “chopstick” maneuver of Elon Musk’s Space X. In describing his slack-jawed ...

"This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and ...

a look inside the grand homes of early 20th-century England, a memoir from one of pop's most iconic singers, a deep dive on a world-famous artist's complicated relationship with a set of high ...

Twenty-three years later Barnes and Noble survives, as does Prairie Archives and the Book Rack. The status of the Elf Shelf ...

Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy ...

Death, monsters, dictators and societal collapse: It’s Halloween, and this week we recommend a handful of books that might ... polemical voice of the 20th century; his greatest coup — as ...

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

As each story about Juan’s father comes to light, the film transitions seamlessly to the late 19th and very early 20th century — sometimes ... much as Rulfo’s novel once did.

After a rocky period in the 80s, the 1990s seemed poised to return to the glory days of the 1970s filmmaking. With the birth ...

It was required reading when I was in high school (okay, maybe that does seem a bit weird in retrospect) and is ranked fourth on Modern Library’s list of the 100 best 20th-century novels.