Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste ...

She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times’s paperback fiction best-seller list. And her success has upended the publishing industry’s most entrenched assumptions about what sells ...

1. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial) 4. “The Housemaid Is Watching” by Freida McFadden (Poisoned ...

Orhan Pamuk’s 2009 novel “The Museum of Innocence,” takes place in the 1970s and 1980s and is about a wealthy man’s intense ...

Former President Donald Trump’s third post-presidency book, Save America, debuts on the New York Times bestseller list this ...

Now romance fiction is booming — but the R.W.A ... But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.

In this era of artificial intelligence, who can compose a better beach read for the vacationing masses? The beloved fiction writer Curtis Sittenfeld … or ChatGPT? Listen as Ms. Sittenfeld sits ...

Almost 20 years after Franklin Leonard created the Black List, which has helped little-known screenwriters break into Hollywood, it is expanding into fiction. Acclaimed films like “Juno ...

You’re in a unique position in that you wrote a pandemic book in 2014, then had the TV adaptation come out in 2021. You ...