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

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 ...

Molly recommends Annie Ernaux’s photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist’s study of the moments when conflict ...

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

“I recommend old age,” she said in a New York Times interview in 2020 ... of a literary moment these days. Neither of the books I discuss today fall into that genre, but they do introduce ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...

By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. The other day ... set we try to apply here each week, recommending books that may be as different as an ice-bound whaling novel ...