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

3 weeks on the list The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively. If a book is not in a rank ...

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

25 weeks on the list The CNN chief political correspondent considers the election of 1872 and draws parallels to today’s politics. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not ...

Iris Apfel, Diane Keaton and Henri Bendel are just some of the style icons featured in the pages of this season’s most ...

Well, here you go — a running list of some of the year’s best, most interesting, most talked-about books. On an August afternoon in 2020, an aging British author arrives at a London theater to ...

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

Her own is among the anonymous tales included in “Want,” a new collection she has edited: “It only felt right, given I was ...

Readers share their love of books in response to Margaret Renkl’s essay. Also: Taxes on the superrich; teaching the Bible; ...

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes ...

In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an ...

“He’s done all that for film, so I kind of think he can do it for books,” Stern added. Leonard has other plans to help draw attention to talented undiscovered novelists. The Black List is ...