The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, ...

Here are the 10 best books to read this month, including poignant fiction, a Hollywood satire, and a work by Nobel winner ...

Looking for something to read during the holiday season? Some great options have emerged. Amazon released its Best Books of 2025 list this week, which annually highlights some of the best new titles ...

Central Florida during an unspecified pandemic. The unnamed narrator and her sister both have “the fever,” and the sister copes with its strange effects by retreating into a virtual world called ...

Do you remember the first book you really connected with? For many, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling was that book. Readers grew up alongside Harry, Ron and Hermione, resonating ...

Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...