Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The best historical novels of 2024 do all this and more, covering many millennia as they take us from ancient Greece to Shakespearean London to Cold War Europe. How are we classifying a period piece?

The best historical novels of 2024 ... Robert Harris’s novel deftly reconstructs their secret relationship, blending fact and fiction by weaving Asquith’s real letters into his text (Stanley ...

A good historical novel has the power to transport us back to a different time and make it seem as real and immediate as our ...