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

Our columnist on “The Amateur,” by Chris Bohjalian, and two other books.

After finishing his latest book, Karan Mahajan couldn’t decide which opening passage was best. Vote below for the one you prefer.

The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.

“We live in the world we inherited from them,” the author Dylan Gottlieb says.

The best-selling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray recommend gripping books that illuminate hidden chapters of the city’s past.

Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.

Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy turns away from the pessimism of his recent novels to offer a more hopeful vision for Black history.

Also among the 13 works up for the British literary award are the latest books from Douglas Stuart, Gwendoline Riley and Emma Cline.

“All That’s Unseen,” by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.