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All I Want for Christmas Is My Broken Family

Pregnant With One Child and 295,233 Words

8 Books to Read About Jimmy Carter’s Life and Legacy

Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

Michel del Castillo, 91, Dies; Child’s-Eye Chronicler of Concentration Camps

The Novel About U.S. Politics So Outrageous It Nearly Wasn’t Published

20 Books Coming in January

Flaco, Manhattan’s Beloved Celebrity Owl, Gets His Close-Up

Remembering When ‘the World Really Made Sense’ on the Comics Pages

Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers

Heroes in Their Twilight Years, and Still in the Spotlight

Audiobooks to Cook (or Eat) To, From Ina Garten to David Chang

Staffers at The Times on the Books They Enjoyed in 2024

‘The Mark Leyner Reader’ Doesn’t Mean Mark Leyner Is Done Writing

This Book Tour Comes With a Side of Fried Rice

Books That Make Great Gifts

Percival Everett’s Prose Is Having a Moment. How Is His Poetry?

It’s Hard to Be the Brother of a Genius Who Died Young

4 Mysteries Shot Through With Malice and Grief

The Best Book Covers of 2024

S.E. Hinton Leans on Dave Barry for Post-Election Comfort

6 Engrossing Historical Novels to Keep the Chill Away

A Novel Inspired by Images of a Young Prisoner at Auschwitz

A Comedian’s Path From Small-Town Tennessee to Breakout Fame

8 Great Thrillers About Bad Marriages

Short, Sweet Reads for Fans of the American Absurd

The Best Horror Fiction of 2024

She Revolutionized Medicine. Why Isn’t She a Household Name?

The Best Audiobooks of 2024

The Best Crime Novels of 2024

A Lebanese Exile Builds a Haven for Those in Need — or So the Legend Goes

A Cabin-Porn Star Bares All

Subsidized Housing With a Wait List, and a Catch

New Horror Novels That Chill and Entertain

The ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Author Wants Us to Give Thanks Every Day

An Apocalyptic Novel Throws Stones at the Glass House of ‘King Lear’

Poems About Dead Relatives Irk Billy Collins

9 Books Coming in December

Sign Up to Learn the 10 Best Books of 2024

100 Notable Books of 2024

10 Picture Books That Help Kids (and Adults) Celebrate Gratitude

Shopping and Shame Share the Shelves in ‘American Bulk’

2 Books for Readers Who Don’t Care About Polite Company

The French Philosopher Whose Romantic Theory of Time Was All the Rage

Loathe Thy Neighbor, at Least in These 4 Crime Novels

Glory Edim Is ‘Patiently Waiting’ for Maya Rudolph to Write a Memoir

Read the Book Review’s 1982 Nobel Interview with Gabriel García Márquez

The Bataclan Terrorists’ Trial: 10 Months of Horror and Pity

Becoming Cher Didn’t Come Easy

Read The New York Times’s 1970 Review of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’