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 ...

Elizabeth Jane Howard's much-loved Cazalet Chronicles books are an elegantly written Sussex family saga, taking the reader from the emotional impact of the Great War to the death of the family's ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff “The New India,” by Rahul Bhatia ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

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November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

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Our critics have picked their favourite books of the year and reviewed them all for you in our Christmas Fiction round up. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer ...

Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us. by Jeff VanderMeer by Noé Álvarez by Miranda July by ...

As life expectancy in the U.S. increased, society’s interpretation of old age changed. Chappel chronicles how seniors themselves revised the narrative about aging and emerged as a dominant force ...