Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Books of The Times: In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder
Joe Ide’s follow-up to his award-winning debut novel, “IQ,” begins in the exact spot that story left off: in a junkyard with a car full of evidence.
Book News: Australia’s Amazon Book Battle
The online retailer is moving in. Booksellers are nervous. But disrupting Australians’ reading habits might not be so easy to do.
Nonfiction: A Portrait of Stalin in All His Murderous Contradictions
The second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography “Stalin” reveals the ideologue and the opportunist.
Nonfiction: The First Totalitarian
Victor Sebestyen’s “Lenin” describes the inventor of a secular religion.
By the Book: Simon Schama: By the Book
The author of the two-volume “Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900” didn’t finish reading Elena Ferrante’s “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”: “I left.”
Books of The Times: With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy
The author of the “His Dark Materials” trilogy returns, with answers to the questions what happened first and what happens next.
Book News: A New Novel From the Late Sam Shepard to Be Published in December
Knopf will publish “Spy of the First Person,” which the actor and playwright wrote in the final months of his life.
Nonfiction: Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today
In “Red Famine,” Anne Applebaum shines a light on clashing nationalisms in a richly detailed account of the 20th-century Soviet republic’s great famine.
Further Reading: Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism
Strobe Talbott on Alan Bullock’s “Hitler and Stalin” and Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny,” which span the arc of the Russian Revolution to the present.
Book News: George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
Mr. Saunders is the second consecutive American writer to win the Man Booker Prize.
Books of The Times: A Graphic Novelist’s Passionate Anatomy of New York
Julia Wertz’s majestic portrait of the city is a collection of dramatic streetscapes and hidden histories.
Nonfiction: ‘Riot Days’: A Memoir of Punk Protest and Prison Activism
Maria Alyokhina, a member of Pussy Riot, tells her story in her prison memoir.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Seeking Poems That Bridge Humankind’s Worlds
Collections of verse, from the prizewinning to the more obscure, that explore themes of nature, science and psychology.
Further Reading: Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World
On the centenary of the October Revolution, the former secretary of state writes about the books that best help us understand Russia.
Books of The Times: The Life of Oriana Fallaci, Guerrilla Journalist
Fallaci, whose interviews got the better of famous figures from Henry Kissinger to Muammar el-Qaddafi, is the subject of a new biography.
Book News: Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump?
A new thriller, “To Kill the President,” has readers calling the author Nostradamus.
Children’s Books: A Stunning Middle-Grade Debut Novel about Grief and Growing Up
The young protagonist of David Barclay Moore’s “The Stars Beneath Our Feet” harnesses the power of community — and Legos — to rebuild his ravaged world.
Further Reading: Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution
The Russian Revolution was imposed from above, but its tragedy was experienced from below. Amis provides a reading list for the decades that followed.
Fiction: In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life
In “The Red-Haired Woman,” Pamuk traces the disastrous effects of a Turkish teenager’s brief encounter with a married actress.
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