NYT Books

Take a peek at this year’s winners.

In “Gator Country,” Rebecca Renner goes beyond the stereotypes to pay tribute to her beloved Everglades.

In “Happy,” by Celina Baljeet Basra, a Punjabi farmer with big dreams finds more challenges than opportunity after he emigrates to Europe.

Michael Cunningham’s “Day” peeks into the lives of a family on one specific April date across three years as life changes because of Covid and other challenges.

“Chasing Bright Medusas,” a new biography by Benjamin Taylor, aims not to uncover new facts but to provide a concise introduction to the novelist.

After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics. He won a National Book Award when he was 86.

Long before Kindles and iPads became popular, Ruiz Robles, a teacher, created her Mechanical Encyclopedia to help lighten her students’ textbook load.

A lonely Londoner cyber-stalks her married lover and his other paramours; a dispersed Guatemalan American family comes together in crisis; a Mohawk mother navigates life off the rez.

An editor recommends “84, Charing Cross Road” and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”

In Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn,” a canceled novelist drifts from New York parties to L.A. parties to a commune in Greece, spreading the gospel of Ayn Rand.