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Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Some will have you mentally arranging flowers for your own happy day. Others provide the vicarious thrill of watching it all burn.

As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s classic fable is as apt as ever.

These books dig into the thrilling, ugly and swoon-worthy drama of a happy couple’s big day.

Historical chronicles and flights of fancy, all with L.G.B.T.Q. protagonists, arrive starting in June.

Novels by Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell and Dave Eggers; memoirs by Jill Biden and Laverne Cox; sci-fi adventures by a Pulitzer Prize winner; and more.

In his rethinking of Jean Genet’s classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders “a world that gives you every opportunity not to be yourself.”

This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here’s how the latest iteration came to be.

A musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker will close months earlier than planned after opening in April to negative reviews and soft sales.

Novels by Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout and Carley Fortune; explosive true crime; immersive new fantasy; essays by David Sedaris; and more.