The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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The year’s outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction, selected by the Books editorial staff.

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...

December 10, 2024 • This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's ...

Hall, a bestselling writer of thrillers, makes her romance-fantasy debut with this highly anticipated novel that none other than Rebecca Yarros called “masterful.” In the kingdom of Vinevridth ...

A thorough research survey presented as a tautly argued tract, Jonathan Haidt’s book draws a line between two trends—greater levels of adolescent anxiety and the use of smartphones at ...

The stories in these history books will have believing the truth really is stranger than fiction. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer's having an easy life.

From new novels, nonfiction books and celeb memoirs, find your next fall read here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.