The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Curl up with these transporting reads. By Alida Becker The poet ...

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The year’s outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction, selected by the Books editorial staff.