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

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

A new biography explains what the fuss was about ... buying and rating the objects we desire. For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse, absorbing ...

Pamuk, the Turkish writer whose novels include “My Name Is Red” (1998) and “Snow” (2004), began keeping illustrated notebooks ...

This very short story hides the titles of 13 popular books published in the first decade of the 21st century. Dive in and see ...

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

In “The White Ladder,” the British writer Daniel Light explores the heroes, villains and dramas of early mountaineering.

In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

By Alexandra Alter and Elisabeth Egan Our critic on November’s best new books. By Sarah Weinman How a Gen X Graphic Novelist Reinvented the Romance Comic To fully understand Charles Burns’s ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff On Dec. 3, we’ll announce our picks.

By Alexandra Alter and Elisabeth Egan Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Henri Bergson ... By Dwight Garner Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘One Hundred Years ...