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

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

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Two of our recommended books this week put rock music front and center: Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of the band R.E.M., and ...

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

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — ...

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

In a collection of mini essays, poems and painted vignettes, the artist and writer reckons with remorse and joy.

In her memoir, the former German chancellor reflects on her political rise and defends her record as the outlook for her ...

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 ...

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

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” ...

Reporting on the 40th anniversary of the popular pizza literacy program sent one writer on a mozzarella-scented memory trail.