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

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

An exciting book with no words, a murder mystery, an author mocking their own pain and a poetic masterpiece highlight this ...

The season’s most anticipated titles include new fiction from Sally Rooney, Richard Powers, Jean Hanff Korelitz and more, ...

I wouldn’t have thought of it. 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them ...

In “Lucky Loser,” two investigative reporters illuminate the financial chicanery and media excesses that gave us the 45th ...

Batuman’s endless appreciation and ardor for her subjects (literature, yes, along with transcultural irony and ungenerous ...

Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” ...

Russia did not become a liberal democracy, and nor did a number of its former satrapies. Few people have had more opportunity ...

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