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As Christmas came to be celebrated in the home, choosing the right volume was a way to show intimate understanding of the person opening the package.
From remixed nursery rhymes to whimsical, philosophical comics.
Some of the year’s best photography books come from artists like Carrie Mae Weems and Susan Meiselas, Rosamond Purcell and Lorna Simpson.
Books about exploring the world by bike, by car, by boat or by plane, passport in hand.
If you like bone-chilling, shudder-inducing reads, pick up any of these psychological thrillers.
Five delightful new romance novels to savor.
Two memoirs and one collection of interviews take us inside the hearts and minds of three remarkable artists.
There’s something for everyone in this season’s bumper crop of novels set in other times and places.
Thomas Beller’s tribute to playground basketball, Kelcey Ervick’s graphic memoir of her soccer days and the great Willie Horton’s baseball career.
This season’s music books include a collection of interviews with Nick Cave, a memoir by Sporty Spice and Greil Marcus’s latest meditation on Bob Dylan.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In her collection of photographs, the author and performer proves that pictures can be a window to the soul — and the era we’re living in.
The judge on “The Great British Baking Show,” whose new book is “Bliss on Toast,” recommends “The Joy of Cooking” along with M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David: “Both the latter are a real pleasure to read.”
Sam Lipsyte’s new novel, “No One Left to Come Looking for You,” centers on the 1990s music scene in downtown New York.
In “Fit Nation,” Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts the evolution of our national attitudes toward fitness.
“Empire of Ice and Stone” tells the terrifying story of a 1913 expedition gone wrong.
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.
“Stella Maris” is the second of McCarthy’s two new books about grief, math and the nature of knowledge.
In “Winterland,” Rae Meadows’s fifth novel, an 8-year-old from Siberia gets the nod to train with elite athletes in the U.S.S.R.
During the pandemic, the New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, toured parts of New York on foot with architects, urban planners and other experts. His book “The Intimate City” is a record of what they saw.
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