The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. By Amal El-Mohtar Recent books by Minsoo Kang, Margaret Killjoy and ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

Taken together, these books offer a reminder: even outsiders are never truly alone. Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New ...

Spend more time enjoying and less time searching the best Books for Tweens. Our curated list features top-rated Books, whether fun and entertaining or educational and learning-focused. Don't miss out ...

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The best new science fiction books of 2024 Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024 Jane Rogers ...

IDIOTS FIRST by Bernard Malamud. 212 pages. Farrar, Straus. $4.50. Bernard Malamud is a poet of the victim. Not the tragic or the hopeless victim, but the absurd victim. In his stories, fate is ...

“Wicked” the movie is not the same as “Wicked” the novel. For young fans of the film, here are books, including one by Gregory Maguire, that are more suitable. The first two books of “On ...

Angela Merkel’s memoir Freedom offers an unprecedented look into the life and mind of one of the world’s most influential leaders. Spanning her childhood in East Germany, the seismic events of 1989, ...