It must be very rare, if not unheard of, for a pair of married writers to have books on the same best-of-the-year list, but here we are in 2024, and Senna has written a superb comic novel ...

The fall of 2024 will see scores of new book releases coming a store or library shelf near you. While borrowing from the library can be a great money saver, keep in mind that when it comes to new ...

booksellers and librarians to name the best book they read in 2024, and explain why. It didn’t have to be a new book, just something they read this year that impressed or awed them. And ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Karan Singh Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Here they are — the 10 Best ...

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...

A good first impression is, of course, the goal: to elicit curiosity and excitement before you’ve even picked the book off a shelf. But a great cover can fortify itself in our consciousness ...

(Book World review.) Everett’s sly response to “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” both honors and interrogates Mark Twain’s classic, along with the nation that reveres it. Told from the ...