Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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The Lit. Bar in the Bronx, open since 2019, may be the most widely known example of the book-bar hybrid — the walls are lined ...

Murakami’s new novel, translated by Philip Gabriel, works variations on a theme he has visited before: A high school loner ...

Dark magic and trauma are at the heart of Nino Cipri’s young adult debut, DEAD GIRLS DON’T DREAM (Holt Books for Young ...

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In “The Miraculous From the Material,” the best-selling author Alan Lightman examines the science behind the wonder.

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A Hitchcockian thriller, an off-the-grid memoir, novels by Weike Wang and Lily Tuck, and more.

In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Small Things Like These,” a meditative Christmastime novella ...

Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what ...