NYT Books

Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York.

Set in a rapidly warming valley, “Dream State” spans 50 years of a rocky friendship.

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world.

In Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, a young graduate student gets caught in the gap between ideals and real life.

In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left behind.

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field.

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.

Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre.

Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his raunchy, stylish, intimate new memoir, “The Loves of My Life.”

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.