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Dec 23, 2025
These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.
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Dec 22, 2025
An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the writer himself once did for sold-out crowds.
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Dec 22, 2025
Betty Fussell's new memoir offers insights on aging, stories about love and a recipe for coyote pie.
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Dec 22, 2025
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
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Dec 22, 2025
The teen detectives and alien enigmas of the Nova Scotia-set "Hobtown Mystery Stories" return for a third supernatural outing.
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Dec 21, 2025
At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell's stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel hovers between reverie and reality.
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Dec 21, 2025
On the joys of having stories in my ears — and yes, listening counts.
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Dec 21, 2025
After this Booker Prize finalist became seriously ill, everything seemed very real, and everything seemed to matter.
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Dec 20, 2025
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book.
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Dec 20, 2025
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
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Dec 20, 2025
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracking his career from his first term as California governor through his eight years in the White House.
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Dec 19, 2025
His Pulitzer-nominated book "Graven Images" inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
"Some of us feel exhausted, some of us feel energized." The Book Review looks back on the year's biggest stories and trends in the publishing industry.
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Dec 19, 2025
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.
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Dec 19, 2025
The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the characters do.
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Dec 18, 2025
"Plain and Simple," her best-selling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
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Dec 18, 2025
To capture Jane Austen's brief life and enormous impact, editors at The New York Times Book Review assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.
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Dec 18, 2025
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, memoirs and more: Here are the most popular books you saved to your reading lists.
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Dec 18, 2025
It's the day the "Animal Goncourt" is awarded. "Who better," a judge says, "to talk about the fabulous relationship between animals and men than writers and philosophers?"
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Dec 18, 2025
The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In "This Year," he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.
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Dec 18, 2025
Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism.
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Dec 17, 2025
"Furious Minds," by Laura K. Field, traces the ascendancy of hard-right thinkers whose contempt for liberal democracy is shaping American politics.
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Dec 17, 2025
Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
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Dec 16, 2025
In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its themes.
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Dec 16, 2025
Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all.
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Dec 15, 2025
As costs are rising and wallets are hurting, these books explore the promises and pitfalls of the U.S. economy.
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Dec 14, 2025
Her picture books found models of perseverance and imagination in figures like Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe and Benny Goodman.
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Dec 14, 2025
Crafting The New York Times Book Review's annual list involves arguments, politicking and, every once in a while, a rare consensus.
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Dec 14, 2025
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year.
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Dec 13, 2025
Here are the year's most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children's books editor.
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Dec 12, 2025
It's been a good one. Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai discuss the books that have stayed with them.
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Dec 12, 2025
Her books, many of which were best sellers, often described empty marriages, love affairs (with tasteful sex) and heroic clergymen.
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Dec 12, 2025
Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.
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Dec 12, 2025
Here are the year's most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist.
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Dec 12, 2025
A candy-colored story collection, sisters who lust after Hitler and harrowing reportage from a riot in India.
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Dec 12, 2025
Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Dwight Garner look back at the books that, as Jacobs writes, "bonked me on the head this year."
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Dec 11, 2025
The staff of the Book Review recommends unforgettable books that made our personal best-of-the-year lists.
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Dec 11, 2025
One fiction, one nonfiction (which he turns to at night). In "Future Boy," he recalls juggling signature roles in "Back to the Future" and "Family Ties."
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Dec 11, 2025
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
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Dec 11, 2025
King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated and left for exile years ago. Now, his attempted comeback is giving his family a royal headache.
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Dec 10, 2025
After a quarter century, the Yaddo president Elaina Richardson will step down, having made her mark on the storied arts residency.
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Dec 10, 2025
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.
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Dec 10, 2025
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
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Dec 09, 2025
In "Cape Fever," a young maid finds herself dealing with ghosts from the past and a manipulative employer.
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Dec 09, 2025
An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.
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Dec 09, 2025
In "The Sea Captain's Wife," Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the thrilling story of Mary Ann Patten, the first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.
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Dec 09, 2025
James Marshall's "George and Martha" books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.
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Dec 09, 2025
Here are the books our columnist loved the most this year.
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Dec 08, 2025
The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.
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Dec 08, 2025
Our columnist picks the year's outstanding books.
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Dec 07, 2025
In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women's fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.
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Dec 07, 2025
This season's bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
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Dec 07, 2025
Lauren Rothery's "Television" finds an action star and two writers dazed by the changing rules of the entertainment industry.
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Dec 07, 2025
This season's bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
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Dec 07, 2025
"I have to be still for a certain amount of time," says the "Wicked" star and author of "Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much."
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Dec 06, 2025
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Dec 06, 2025
The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author's latest novel, "The School of Night."
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Dec 06, 2025
What birders well know, fans of "composite organisms" and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.
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Dec 05, 2025
As told in Tarpley Hitt's rollicking "Barbieland," the rise of America's doll alter ego is much messier and more interesting than any movie.
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Dec 05, 2025
The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O'Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.
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Dec 05, 2025
Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say?
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Dec 04, 2025
Need a last-minute holiday gift? Try one of these recent releases.
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Dec 03, 2025
Raised in a large chaotic family outside Boston, the journalist Janice Page recalls an eventful childhood and the love story that brought her to China and back again.
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Dec 02, 2025
The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British wit and a steadfast commitment to Western values.
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Dec 02, 2025
The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British wit and a steadfast commitment to Western values.
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Dec 02, 2025
"American Canto," published amid a scandal over the journalist's alleged romantic entanglements with politicians she covered, offers many scenes but little sense.
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Dec 02, 2025
We made a list! Now we explain why we love the books we chose.
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Dec 02, 2025
An adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella arrives at the same time as a new biography, unlocking one of his best-loved and least-understood books.
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Dec 02, 2025
After a year of deliberation, the editors at The New York Times Book Review have picked their 10 best books of 2025. Three editors share their favorites.
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Dec 02, 2025
How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we're so nostalgic for its creations.
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Dec 02, 2025
In "Casanova 20," a young Adonis and a renowned painter are forced to navigate Covid-19.
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Dec 02, 2025
"American Canto," published amid a scandal over the journalist's alleged romantic entanglements with politicians she covered, offers many scenes but little sense.
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Dec 01, 2025
"Prince Faggot," "Figaro/Faggots" and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?
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Dec 01, 2025
"Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures," a new biography of Denis Johnson, traces the life of a brilliant nonconformist.
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Nov 30, 2025
His tales of violence and squalor in his native Ozarks had the timeless quality of fables and inspired several movies.
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Nov 30, 2025
In "Girls Play Dead," Jen Percy examines the ways women respond to sexual trauma.
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Nov 29, 2025
In works like "Travesties" and "Arcadia," the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.
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Nov 29, 2025
The best-selling author B.K. Borison recommends sweet and sexy reads that capture the cozy magic of the season.
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Nov 29, 2025
Olga Tokarczuk's "House of Day, House of Night" brings together a constellation of characters and legends in a Polish border region.
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Nov 28, 2025
Her nine volumes included "Kyrie," a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.
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Nov 28, 2025
Maggie O'Farrell's historical novel, one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2020, has just been adapted for film, making now a perfect time to revisit this story of family, grief and Shakespeare.
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Nov 28, 2025
In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan's latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it.
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Nov 28, 2025
Jennifer L. Holm's "Outside" and Rebecca Stead's "The Experiment" both feature well-meaning grown-ups who do everything to protect their kids — and fail.
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Nov 27, 2025
Pick up a mug of tea, grab a blanket and settle down to read. Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books that are perfect for cozy fall reading.
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Nov 27, 2025
Three recently released children's books focus on gems, fine jewelry and even collectible watches.
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Nov 27, 2025
"It's all about the texture," says the author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" and the new "Letter From Japan." Both fit the bill.
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Nov 26, 2025
For Janeites around the globe, the 250th anniversary of the English author's birth is cause for elaborate celebrations.
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Nov 26, 2025
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
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Nov 26, 2025
The "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" actor and the author of "Alphabetical Diaries" met for a wide-ranging conversation.
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Nov 26, 2025
New novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Kamilah Cole, nonfiction by John Darnielle and Olivia Nuzzi, a Booker Prize finalist and more.
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Nov 26, 2025
In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.
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Nov 25, 2025
My students' easy access to chatbots forced me to make humanities instruction even more human.
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Nov 24, 2025
The actor is now playing an adult version of the sinister child he portrayed in the film series.
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Nov 24, 2025
In the thrilling "Family of Spies," Christine Kuehn tells the story of learning the darkest of secrets.
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Nov 24, 2025
For the obsessed protagonist of Marisa Kashino's darkly comic debut novel, "Best Offer Wins," real estate is blood sport.
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Nov 24, 2025
The best-selling author B.K. Borison recommends sweet and sexy reads that capture the cozy magic of the season.
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Nov 23, 2025
Carla Kaplan's biography "Troublemaker" focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for "The American Way of Death."
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Nov 22, 2025
She wrote two popular memoirs: the first about the joys of married life, the second about her husband serving her divorce papers on their 40th anniversary.
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