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You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry.

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

The print sales over the Thanksgiving weekend nearly matched the first week of Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land.” And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.

Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.