Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New York City, where she’s obsessing over the large inheritance she can’t access due to her ...

Among the many entertaining, delightful, poignant, and treasured new works of fiction and nonfiction that were published this year, the very best offered fresh perspective and a strong voice to cut ...

If, like me, you’re always on the lookout for books that conjure up a similar feeling to The Hunger Games (or even The Last of Us, according to the Amazon listing), Melissa Welliver’s To the Death ...

Science fiction can seem like an intimidating genre for the uninitiated, what with its fantastical tales of advanced technologies, otherworldly beings, and, yes, all that science. But in reality, ...

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Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

The quietest, sweetest book on this list feels like it could have been written at any time in the last century. It’s about an English widow who seems to have lost the will to live until she ...