Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow.

For the fifth year, I’m sharing a list of the top 15 nonfiction books I’ve read during the preceding 12 months. I’m ...

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This book is dedicated to figuring out what she actually knew and was kept from knowing, and Kendall does so in plain (if occasionally awkward) prose that doesn’t shy away from her own blind spots.

This week’s Bookshelf brings you four new nonfiction titles you might want ... to writing about marginalized voices. Her previous book, “Independence Lost,” takes a fresh look at the ...