Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

A heartfelt family portrait, a poignant coming-of-age story and a thriller starring an AI assistant — plus hot new celebrity ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s ...

Rebecca Kauffman’s fifth novel, “I’ll Come to You,” is a “Corrections”-esque tale of one clan’s dysfunctions and joys in ...

Nearly six years after becoming a literary heavyweight with “Read with Jenna,” she’s starting her own publishing venture with ...

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in ...