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

By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York. By Juliana Barbassa and Jennifer Harlan Books by Casey McQuiston ...

In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost ...

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

In “Cerebral Entanglements,” Allan J. Hamilton argues that new imaging technologies give us unprecedented access — with ...

Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist ...

Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s ...

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art ...

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