NYT Books

“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.”

A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian boarding schools.

A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.

The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.

Katie Mitchell’s photo book “Prose to the People” visits stores around the United States, from the 19th century to today.

Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.

In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.

In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.