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

By Junot Díaz Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels. A new kind of disaster fiction is serving ...

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the ...

Science fiction and fantasy books are often just the authors' predictions about what they think the world will be like in 10, 20, or hundreds of years. But sometimes these books eerily hit the ...

We science fiction fans are ... which has travelled for 100 years from a forgotten colony planet, arrives… I have many old Stephen Baxter novels filling up my shelves, and this latest outing ...