By Daisy Fried The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. As you browse, you can keep track of how many you’ve read or want to read.

A long awaited film adaptation of the Broadway musical more than delivers.

Coll’s book presents Hussein as a human being, not a caricature. Relying in part on newly translated Iraqi documents, it reexamines the mutually reinforcing delusions of the Iraqi leader and ...

(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 ...

We asked our writers what books moved them the most, and they had plenty of suggestions. After a lot of back and forth, and a really hard time narrowing down the selections, we picked ten favorites.

These are the books your favorite authors are most excited to pick up next year Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

Two chief executive officers recommended Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, by Morgan Housel, which helps the reader understand fundamentals of human behavior—which remain the same ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ann Dunham led an extraordinary life. As Barack Obama's mom, she played a pivotal role in raising the future president. "My mother was the ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.