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.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. ... 9 New Books We Recommend This Week. ... 2021, when the costs of the pandemic are clear and the psychological toll is still ...

Watch for new novels by Colson Whitehead, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Richard Russo, a climate journalist’s damning study of rising temperatures — and plenty more. By The New York Times Books ...

By The New York Times Books Staff. Published Nov. 30, 2023 Updated Dec. 8, 2023; ... 2021, insurrection at the Capitol — has said she will be addressing the aftermath of the 2020 election. ...

By The New York Times Books Staff. ... the story of Abed Salama’s search for his 5-year-old son after a bus crash on the outskirts of Jerusalem in a 2021 piece for The New York Review of Books.

By The New York Times Books Staff. Published Dec. 3, 2024 Updated Dec. 5, 2024; ... When the veteran literary and cultural critic came out as transgender in 2021 at the age of 66, ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. When you look at books all day for work, you’re bound to find resonant overlaps at times: little echoes of subject or theme or ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. If the mood these days is at once absurdist and anxious — I’ve come across recent poetry collections called “Ominous Music ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Cats and the people who love them are suddenly in the news, thanks to a resurfaced JD Vance quote from 2021. So what better time ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. This week’s recommended books feature crime and punishment, war and peace, and some themes that didn’t become the title of ...

We also recommend a new poetry collection this week, Brenda Shaughnessy’s “Tanya,” along with a bounty of new fiction from Catherine Lacey, Han Kang, Peter Robinson and more.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Information wants to be free, the saying goes — but misinformation does too, alas, and the journalists who reliably distinguish ...