The Best Romance Books of 2024
Here are the novels our columnist loved most.
Interview: ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Her Reading Life
“It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail,” says the author of the best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass.” Her new book is “The Serviceberry.”
The Best Audiobooks of 2024
Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.
“Camera Girl” Features Steamy Nights Preserved on Polaroid Film
Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”
Book Review: ‘The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World …,’ by David Graeber
A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.
Books, Lost or Imaginary, Come to Life at the Grolier Club
An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.
How Did Lesbian Pulp Fiction Thrive in the 1950s and ’60s?
These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.
The Best Thriller Novels of 2024
Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.
The Best Crime Novels of 2024
Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.
Writers Silenced by Stalin Get New Life Amid War in Ukraine
The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.
Talking About the Best Books of 2024
A group of editors on the year’s most extraordinary novels and nonfiction.
The 10 Best Books of 2024
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
Book Review: ‘Rental House,’ by Weike Wang
In Weike Wang’s novel “Rental House,” a couple invite their families to visit them on vacation.
Book Review: ‘Gabriel’s Moon,’ by William Boyd
In “Gabriel’s Moon,” William Boyd follows a writer who is drawn into an espionage plot and a global crisis.
Book Review: ‘Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film,’ by Julie Gilbert
In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book.
Book Review: ‘A History of the Big House,’ by Charif Majdalani
The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.
Book Review: ‘Love, Joe,’ by Joe Brainard
The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.
Book Review: ‘Cabin,’ by Patrick Hutchison
Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding history.
Book Review: ‘Apartment Women,’ by Gu Byeong-Mo
The South Korean writer Gu Byeong-Mo’s novel “Apartment Women” imagines a commune of young families with a short fuse.
Hal Lindsey, Author of ‘The Late, Great Planet Earth,’ Dies at 95
In that 1970 book and others he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.
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