NYT Books

In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn’t agree on the three less-heralded finalists.

A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.

The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.

Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.

A spare elegy; a weird journey.

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has left an enduring mark on American culture.

“Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original “Hunger Games” novels.

The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable of bridging ideological divides.”