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In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II.

In “Drayton and Mackenzie,” two young grads navigating the 2008 financial crisis enact a plan they hope will change their fate.

Lush historical fiction, gripping thrillers, true crime, laugh-out-loud essays and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

Kate Milford’s cozy mystery is set at an abandoned amusement park, while Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer’s horror satire unfolds at a malevolent sleepaway camp.

In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In her lyrical new biography, “This Dark Night,” Deborah Lutz shines light on the most enigmatic of the literary, secluded Brontë sisters.

She wanted to learn about pyramids, and ended up with hallucinatory sex scenes. Her new book is a provocation: Just what genre is it anyway?

He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author’s most famous works.

In his memoir, Simon Paré-Poupart recounts the highs and lows of hauling trash for more than 20 years.