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

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

The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human.

If you’re reeling after the final episode of Season 3 or looking for more sumptuous drama, these books will get you through to the next season.

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

Ebs Burnough’s movie covers the novel as well as its influence on generations of readers, including many artists.

His fairy tales are part of our cultural fabric, but “The Little Match Girl” still haunts me.

An unhappy housewife; an underground radical.

Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai, book critics at The New York Times, recommend three road trip books.

Novels by R.F. Kuang and Louis Sachar, a spicy culinary memoir, a new Octavia E. Butler biography and more.