NYT Books

Here are the books our columnist loved the most this year.

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.

In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.

This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.

“Prince Faggot,” “Figaro/Faggots” and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?

Lauren Rothery’s “Television” finds an action star and two writers dazed by the changing rules of the entertainment industry.

“I have to be still for a certain amount of time,” says the “Wicked” star and author of “Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much.”

The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author’s latest novel, “The School of Night.”

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.