In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different re… Read More

There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse. Leah Greenblatt | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The author of “Big Little Lies” and several other best-sellers has a new novel, “Here One Moment.” Promoting it — doing any publicity — remains a challen… Read More

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend. Angela Lashbrook | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Try this short quiz about screen adaptations and the source material that inspired them. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Elizabeth Alexander and John Bayley loved their partners to the end. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Almost 20 years after Franklin Leonard created the Black List, which has helped little-known screenwriters break into Hollywood, it is expanding into fiction. Alexandra Alter | NYTimes Boo… Read More

Essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates; memoirs by Alexei Navalny, Ina Garten and Cher; and dispatches from the mind of a Nobel laureate are among this season’s most anticipated offerings. Shrey… Read More

In “The Life Impossible,” a 72-year-old widow tries to figure out what happened to a friend who disappeared in Ibiza. Michelle Ruiz | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” — set in rural France — stars a ruthless American secret agent. Dwight Garner | NYTi… Read More

Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer. Wilson Wong | NYTimes Boo… Read More

The French novel that was adapted into “Vertigo”; Cameron Crowe’s nonfiction account of a year inside a public high school. Sadie Stein | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause,” Benjamin Nathans takes stock of the generation of dissidents who helped loosen the bonds of tyranny in the Soviet Union. David Kortav… Read More

In “Orange Blossom Trail,” the photographer Joshua Lutz and the author George Saunders pay tribute to the hard living across one stretch of American highway. Walker Mimms | NYT… Read More

The first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet was just voted the best book of the 21st century. We like it too. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“Impossible Creatures” has prompted comparisons to Tolkien, Lewis and Pullman, but action, not awe, is Katherine Rundell’s strong suit. Laura Miller | NYTimes Books | Dis… Read More

Faced with a roomful of bored students, Jacob Mitchell found a way to make adverbs fun. Now his classroom is global. Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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“Swallow the Ghost,” by Eugenie Montague, is an up-to-the-minute mystery that defies convention. Hermione Hoby | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Rosie Schaap’s new memoir, “The Slow Road North,” recalls her grief and her subsequent move out of Brooklyn. Ann Neumann | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today. Stephen… Read More

Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York. Alexandra Jacobs |… Read More

A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris. Marie Arana | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows. Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

How the author of “The Right Stuff,” “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” and other classics turned sociology into art. David Brooks | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for other women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated. Trip Gabriel | N… Read More

In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich. Jennifer Szalai | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Generational connections — and divides — abound in four new volumes that take vastly different approaches to storytelling. Sam Thielman | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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Including titles by Brando Skyhorse, Barack Obama, Costica Bradatan and more. Shreya Chattopadhyay | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Much of Colorado’s literature is about the flow of people whose imaginations, like the novelist Peter Heller’s, were ignited by myths of unbridled freedom. He recommends some fa… Read More

In 1969, Honor Moore was granted an abortion by a Connecticut psychiatrist, and went on with her life. In 2024, she reckons with the fallout. Joanna Biggs | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit. Jennifer Szalai | NYTimes Books | Disclo… Read More

Casey McQuiston’s debut proved that queer romance can be a hit. In their latest novel, “The Pairing,” sex doesn’t only sell; it’s also “beautiful and rea… Read More

The brother, son and grandson of famous English writers, he carved out his own space as a composer, critic, columnist and historian. Clay Risen | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Italo Calvino? Not so bad! May Sarton? Pretty good! Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

An exploration of the long arc of Baldwin’s career, on what would have been the 100th birthday of the author of “Giovanni’s Room” and “The Fire Next Time.&rdqu… Read More

‘By admitting that, I fear I will be drummed out of the Novelists’ Corps,’ she says. ‘The Black Bird Oracle,’ the latest in her best-selling ‘All Souls&r… Read More

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream. Sue Halpern | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Try this short quiz about the vibrant cultural movement that came together a century ago — and continues to be influential. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels. Penelope Green | NYTimes Bo… Read More

A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, “Off the Books,” a Chinese American college student chauffeurs a handsome and suspicious client from California to New York. Tamm… Read More

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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

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