The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The historian and author of the newsletter “Letters From an American” examines the historical forces that ... poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Read by the author. 8 hours, 17 minutes unabridged. Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. If a book is not in a rank ...