Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander’s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged. Alexandra Jacobs | NYTimes Books | D… Read More

In “A Hunger to Kill,” the former homicide detective Kim Mager recalls a career-defining investigation. Joe Pompeo | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

This bustling borough of New York City has been the setting for many novels — including the books in this short quiz. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Our crime columnist on four new novels. Sarah Weinman | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The people have spoken. Here are the books they voted for. The New York Times Books Staff | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Women in the Valley of the Kings,” Kathleen Sheppard introduces us to a group of 19th-century archaeologists who changed the field forever. W. M. Akers | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt. Jennifer Szalai | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.” Anderson Tepper | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge. Christopher Bollen | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

This week’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to find a dozen works of fiction that were published during the last years of the 20th century. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Dis… Read More

“Long Island Compromise,” the new novel by the author of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” fictionalizes a true story. Sloane Crosley | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A philandering father; a literary affair. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A New York Times Book Review editor recommends four books for the summer. Joumana Khatib, Karen Hanley and Claire Hogan | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The author of “Funny Story” churned out five consecutive No. 1 best-sellers without leaving her comfort zone. How did she pull it off? Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Disclosu… Read More

“It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.” Her own smash book “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is out in… Read More

A dinner party at the other woman’s house; the evening before a jail sentence. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”… Read More

This quick quiz challenges you to identify a film’s source material based on a photo. Click here to play! J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

As a new book by Ramin Setoodeh shows, Donald Trump brought the vulgar theatrics he honed on TV to his life in politics. Jennifer Szalai | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

To write “Exhibit,” the queer novelist says she had to pretend that no one would read it. “By writing things I’m afraid of saying, I might stand a chance of voicing… Read More

In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by resentment, unrest and the rise of the radical right. Jennifer Szala… Read More

Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some… Read More

In “Catland,” Kathryn Hughes has a theory about our obsession with our feline friends — and one cat lover in particular. Leah Reich | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened. Clancy Martin | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt,” Edward F. O’Keefe explores the informal kitchen cabinet that helped Roosevelt, the 26th president, speak softly and carry a big stick… Read More

Kevin Kwan left Singapore’s opulent, status-obsessed, upper crust when he was 11. He’s still writing about it. Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

If you love stories about beautiful losers, consider Brian Moore’s novel about an alcoholic virgin or Benjamin Anastas’s tale of an inferior twin. Unknown Author | NYTimes Book… Read More

She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage. Penelope Green | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Barbara Kingsolver’s debut, and a bad seed’s beginnings. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“They’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones,” the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Bren… Read More

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. Elisa Gabbert | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. William Grimes | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one. Alexandra Alter | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The milestone comes after a particularly turbulent period, when the publisher was put up for sale and bought by a private equity firm. Since then, investments have boosted morale and helped… Read More

A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel. Joseph Berger | NYTimes Books | Disc… Read More

This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?) Jennifer Schuessler | NYTimes Books |… Read More

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“City in Ruins” is the third novel in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He’s retiring in part to invest more time into political activism. B… Read More

Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye” Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Sloane Crosley’s apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels. Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Discl… Read More

Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” H… Read More

The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list? Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs a… Read More

Because we could all use a laugh. Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Cari Vander Yacht | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Geraldine DeRuiter’s “If You Can’t Take the Heat” expands on her viral, award-winning blog posts. Jennifer Reese | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy. Mateo Askaripour | NYTimes Boo… Read More

Using clever camera methods, a new photo book illuminates how honeybees see plants and flowers. William Atkins | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A vibrant cast narrates “North Woods,” Daniel Mason’s lyrical saga about the various inhabitants of a single home in Massachusetts, from the founding of this country to th… Read More

Some familiar San Franciscans turn up in the British countryside in “Mona of the Manor,” which the author vows is the 10th, and last, in the series: “That has a nice symme… Read More

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible’s first book. Francis Spufford | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Rachel Lyon’s novel “Fruit of the Dead” updates the Greek myth with a pharma tycoon who lures an aimless slacker to his private island. Molly Young | NYTimes Books | Disc… Read More

In “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” by Xochitl Gonzalez, two Latina women working a decade apart fight to break out in the New York art scene. Jean Hanff Korelitz | NYTimes Books… Read More

“Your Absence Is Darkness,” a novel by the Icelandic writer Jon Kalman Stefansson, is a complex history prompted by one man’s quest. Daniel Mason | NYTimes Books | Disclo… Read More

In “The Witch of New York,” Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism. Kate Tuttle | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Double Click,” the writer Carol Kino explores the pioneering glamour of a famous fashion-photography pair. Sarah Boxer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“The Hunter,” set in western Ireland, is a sequel to 2020’s “The Searcher.” Sadie Stein | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film. Judith Newman… Read More

The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag. Unkno… Read More

Memoirs from RuPaul and Christine Blasey Ford; Tana French’s latest crime thriller; new novels by Percival Everett and Téa Obreht — and more. The New York Times Books St… Read More

In “Normal Women,” Philippa Gregory gives us nine centuries of real-life heroines, murderers, boxers and brides. Eva Wolchover | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters. Tina Brown | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Decades after “Lives of the Monster Dogs” comes “King Nyx,” where the wife of a paranormal researcher explores why girls have gone missing from a remote island. Eli… Read More

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides. Noreen Malone | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan. V.V. Ganeshananthan | NYTime… Read More

For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.” Robert… Read More

A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes’s richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel “In Ascension.” Sophie Mackintosh | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Amitava Kumar’s novel links a professor who lived through a nation’s tribulations and his daughter, an Atlanta journalist, before and after the pandemic. Thrity Umrigar | NYTim… Read More

“I’ve been prank-calling Justin Torres for like two decades,” says the poet and performer, whose new book is called “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse… Read More

The Oscar-nominated film is based on a 1992 book by the prolific Scotsman Alasdair Gray. Beloved by writers, “that’s not the same as being widely read,” says one of them… Read More

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture. Fintan O’Toole | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis. Deirdre Mask | N… Read More

As a scholar, Laurence Ralph specialized in youth violence. Then a relative was killed. “Sito” tells the story. Gary Younge | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A roundup of international fiction from Congo, Sweden, Bolivia and India. Anderson Tepper | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards. Abdi Latif Dahir | NYTimes B… Read More

In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator. Lovia Gyarkye | NYTi… Read More

“Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park’s second novel, is a heady mix of true history and high-flying fiction. Lauren Christensen | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her powerful new memoir, the author examines a life composed of conflicting identities — and fierce, contradictory desires. Charles Finch | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years i… Read More

Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.” Tochi Onyebuchi | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be. Amal El-Mohtar | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States. David Nasaw | NYTim… Read More

From England and France to the deepest Arctic and northern China, these stories will transport you. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her new novel, “Leaving,” Roxana Robinson reunites a former couple. One of them is divorced; the other is still married. What now? Amity Gaige | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The actor reads Michael Cunningham’s “Day,” a novel that visits a husband, wife and brother on the same day in April over three years. Lauren LeBlanc | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

“Dear Sister” and “My Side of the River” tell vastly different stories about ordinary people looking back on extraordinary circumstances. Julia Scheeres | NYTimes B… Read More

“I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom-com … Read More

The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment. Elisa Gabbert | N… Read More

In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and politi… Read More

In Margot Livesey’s new novel, “The Road From Belhaven,” a 19th-century farm girl’s life and maturity are complicated by her uncontrollable visions of accident and d… Read More

Try this short quiz to see how many fictional disasters you remember from your reading. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In his new novel, “Trondheim,” the author Cormac James explores the terrible dread and peculiar quality of watching over a loved one in the hospital. Katie Kitamura | NYTimes B… Read More

“Ordinary Human Failings,” a new novel by the Irish writer Megan Nolan, is a fierce and relentless account of characters trapped by circumstance and tragedy. Harriet Lane | NYT… Read More