These novels usher readers into fascinating, long-ago worlds.
Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways.
Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts “troubling.” Also: Reaction to President Trump’s naming of a special envoy to Greenland.
Omri Boehm’s new book argues that both the left and the right must abandon divisive identity politics and embrace the transformative power of Enlightenment ideals.
“Grand Rapids,” by Natasha Stagg, is an unassuming portrait of a Midwestern teenager’s grief and transformation.
Fiction by George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Laura Dave; a bracingly honest divorce memoir; Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel; and more.
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025.
Need something to read (or watch) this New Year’s week? This quiz brings the love.
Nuestra editora de cultura y estilo de vida repasa los mejores momentos de la cultura pop del año.
Our culture and lifestyle editor looks back at the year’s top pop culture moments.
A Q & A with N.T. Wright about why Jesus entered into human history.
Consider that every book you have is a story of who you are.
Two artists spent 30 years cataloging how people dress and learned a lot about humanity in the process.
A middle-age man fighting illness and marital woe heads west in Ben Markovits’s poignant new novel, a Booker Prize finalist.
This week, we close out the year with your best advice of 2025.
In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.
Our columnist has recommendations.
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, one of the Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, is a literary mystery about a scholar’s search for a long-lost poem.
In the final week of the 100th anniversary of “The Great Gatsby,” Wesley Morris, the host of ‘Cannonball,’ talks to the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, about why all three of them have found themselves in a decades-long relationship with this book.
In the final week of the 100th anniversary of “The Great Gatsby,” Wesley Morris, the host of ‘Cannonball,’ talks to the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, about why all three of them have found themselves in a decades-long relationship with this book.
A mother’s grief is well depicted in “Hamnet” and “The Correspondent.”
In the final week of the 100th anniversary of “The Great Gatsby,” Wesley Morris, the host of ‘Cannonball,’ talks to the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, about why all three of them have found themselves in a decades-long relationship with this book.
Here are the best nonfiction essays of the year, according to me.
In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor.
Two books center on small acts of grit and valor, from a bold little onion to an orphaned boy carrying messages for the French Resistance.
Our columnist on three novels worth your time.
An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.
The nonfiction spy thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman,” which became a film, grew out of his work as a journalist covering the West Coast for The Times.
There’s been a lot said on the book’s 100th anniversary. But there’s a lot to say.
Brendan Costello was a cleareyed writer who might have found this article a bit treacly. Such is the cost of being a good guy.
Such as: A shrewd move by George Washington. Why Gauguin wore a 10-gallon hat. And the benefits of breathing through your nose
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.
Few things can calm a savage heart like being genuinely listened to.
Our columnist on seven terrific mysteries deservedly back in print.
Expertos en salud mental comparten los títulos que más sugieren a quienes atraviesan el final de una relación.
In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa.
Why do men find it so hard to connect with other people, and their own emotions?
These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.
Tanto por intención como por providencia, Tolkien escribió un mundo que es bello porque está tan roto como el nuestro.
Try this short quiz to see how many fun facts about authors and books you can recall.
An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the writer himself once did for sold-out crowds.
Betty Fussell’s new memoir offers insights on aging, stories about love and a recipe for coyote pie.
The teen detectives and alien enigmas of the Nova Scotia-set “Hobtown Mystery Stories” return for a third supernatural outing.
The screenwriter and producer created several television hits about law enforcement. He made one of the first police dramas to star two main characters of color.
On the joys of having stories in my ears — and yes, listening counts.
After this Booker Prize finalist became seriously ill, everything seemed very real, and everything seemed to matter.
Today, your highly personal, delightfully specific bests of 2025.
An eminent New Testament scholar recounts what he says was the message of Jesus that transformed the West.
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
His Pulitzer-nominated book “Graven Images” inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
“Some of us feel exhausted, some of us feel energized.” The Book Review looks back on the year’s biggest stories and trends in the publishing industry.
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of “Bug,” about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.
“Emily in Paris” may have moved to Rome, but a prestigious award and a new book show the series has left a stylish mark on the City of Light. Plus, a fashion innovator on A.I.
How providence and loss helped shape “The Lord of the Rings.”
The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the characters do.
See how well you know the television, movie, music and literary figures of 2025 with The New York Times Faces Quiz.
“Plain and Simple,” her best-selling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
To capture Jane Austen’s brief life and enormous impact, editors at The New York Times Book Review assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, memoirs and more: Here are the most popular books you saved to your reading lists.
It’s the day the “Animal Goncourt” is awarded. “Who better,” a judge says, “to talk about the fabulous relationship between animals and men than writers and philosophers?”
The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.
Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism.
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad.
“Furious Minds,” by Laura K. Field, traces the ascendancy of hard-right thinkers whose contempt for liberal democracy is shaping American politics.
Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
En manos de Rob, mi novela más autobiográfica sonó auténtica.
After attending James Baldwin’s funeral, Thomas Sayers Ellis was inspired to create a collective for Black artists.
Audiobook excerpts from our picks for the top fiction and nonfiction of 2025.
In Rob’s hands, “Stand by Me,” my most autobiographical novel, rang true.
A recent spate of books highlights the presence of a new category, one well suited to our time: the grievance memoir.
This 12-question challenge will test your knowledge of all things Austen.
Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all.
To capture the writer’s brief life and enormous impact, we assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.
Nuestros críticos literarios repasan los títulos más memorables que leyeron y reseñaron durante el 2025.
Early access to high-quality books can transform lives, improve educational outcomes and help create the next generation of curious and informed citizens.
As costs are rising and wallets are hurting, these books explore the promises and pitfalls of the U.S. economy.
Her picture books found models of perseverance and imagination in figures like Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’Keeffe and Benny Goodman.
Crafting The New York Times Book Review’s annual list involves arguments, politicking and, every once in a while, a rare consensus.
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year.
Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.
It’s been a good one. Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai discuss the books that have stayed with them.
Her books, many of which were best sellers, often described empty marriages, love affairs (with tasteful sex) and heroic clergymen.
Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.
Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist.
A candy-colored story collection, sisters who lust after Hitler and harrowing reportage from a riot in India.
Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Dwight Garner look back at the books that, as Jacobs writes, “bonked me on the head this year.”
When teachers do assign whole books, they often choose from a stagnant list of classics.
His two-character work won a Pulitzer Prize and had a long Broadway run, but he never replicated its success and struggled to get his later work staged.
Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing.
The staff of the Book Review recommends unforgettable books that made our personal best-of-the-year lists.
One fiction, one nonfiction (which he turns to at night). In “Future Boy,” he recalls juggling signature roles in “Back to the Future” and “Family Ties.”
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
After a quarter century, the Yaddo president Elaina Richardson will step down, having made her mark on the storied arts residency.
While serving in the L.A.P.D., he began delivering scripts for series like “Dragnet” and “Adam-12.” After retiring, he was a showrunner for “MacGyver.”
We asked psychologists, therapists and dating coaches to share the books they recommend.
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.
Jessie Buckley, star of “Hamnet,” on the primal love — and grief — of motherhood.
“Pluribus,” “The Beast In Me” and “Die My Love” take viewers inside the minds and egos of their complex protagonists.
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
In “Cape Fever,” a young maid finds herself dealing with ghosts from the past and a manipulative employer.
An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.
In “The Sea Captain’s Wife,” Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the thrilling story of Mary Ann Patten, the first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.
James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.
Here are the books our columnist loved the most this year.
The Tony-nominated playwright was arrested last month on suspicion of attempted drug smuggling. He was released on Monday, Japanese officials said.
He gave readers a comprehensive and lyrical account of the historic mission in 1969. His science coverage as a Pulitzer-winning journalist and an author took him around the world.
Many books have memorable moments or major plot points set in locations with chilly winter weather. Try this short quiz to see how many you remember from recent novels.
The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.
Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.
In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.
Lauren Rothery’s “Television” finds an action star and two writers dazed by the changing rules of the entertainment industry.
Aprender es doloroso, placentero y, sobre todo, comunitario.
This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
“I have to be still for a certain amount of time,” says the “Wicked” star and author of “Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much.”
Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading.
The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author’s latest novel, “The School of Night.”
Karl Ove Knausgaard describes the protagonist of his new novel, “The School of Night,” to a forensic artist, who renders him with paper and pen.
What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.
Condé Nast, the magazine’s parent company, said her contract would expire at the end of the year.
As told in Tarpley Hitt’s rollicking “Barbieland,” the rise of America’s doll alter ego is much messier and more interesting than any movie.
The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.
Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say?
The Tony-nominated American playwright and actor has been in custody since airport customs officers found Ecstasy in his bag last month.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Te presentamos las obras de ficción y no ficción más destacadas del año, seleccionadas por el personal de The New York Times Book Review.
An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust.
Need a last-minute holiday gift? Try one of these recent releases.
Olivia Nuzzi parece ignorar la seria traición al periodismo a raíz de su relación con Robert Kennedy.
Jewish Currents is fighting the good fight.
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.
Raised in a large chaotic family outside Boston, the journalist Janice Page recalls an eventful childhood and the love story that brought her to China and back again.
El equipo de reseñas literarias de The New York Times elige los mejores libros de ficción y no ficción del año.
The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British wit and a steadfast commitment to Western values.
The publisher of the children’s book series and the pop singer both denounced the use of their works in recent Trump administration communications.
If you’re a writer or filmmaker hoping to create a hell on earth, might as well start with the most famous city in the world.
That’s often not been the case in recent years.
An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.
In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.
In his memoir, “Unleashed,” the former prime minister is “optimistic” about the possibility that Donald J. Trump could regain the White House.
El libro del periodista Bob Woodward también relata que Donald Trump envió en secreto a Vladimir Putin lo que entonces eran raras máquinas de prueba COVID-19 para uso personal del líder ruso.
The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report.
After our series on how artists have been affected by loss, we asked readers what helped them when they experienced it. These are 15 of their answers.
The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.