NYT Books

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

A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic.

In “The Rest Is Memory,” Lily Tuck imagines the life of a Polish teenager during the Holocaust.

The actress and publisher will help decide the 2025 winner of the prestigious British book award. It is “the thrill of a life,” she said.

Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen. Newborns were named after her characters.

A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers.

In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.

Ilana Kaplan’s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.

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.