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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
The Best Romance Novels of 2025

Here are the books our columnist loved the most this year.
Olivia Waite | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Monday, December 8, 2025
A Peek Into the Mind of One of History’s Great Thinkers

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.
Dwight Garner | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Big and Beautiful: Gift-Worthy Holiday Art Books

This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.
Leah Greenblatt | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Liverwort or Moss? Horny Toad or Fence Lizard? Niche Field Guides Can Tell You.

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.
Robert Ito | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
Friday, December 5, 2025
Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say?
Jennifer Szalai | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
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The Best Thrillers of 2025
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. Sarah Lyall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure
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In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment. Jeff Shesol | NYT...
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In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis. Aziz Z. Huq | NYT...
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An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years. Eli...
