The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Celebrate the literature of this festive month with with a five ...

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. By ...

Fabienne Josaphat’s genre-blending novel about members of the Black Panther Party won the Bellwether Prize in 2023. New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me ...