NYT Books

In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.

Ilana Kaplan’s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.

The print sales over the Thanksgiving weekend nearly matched the first week of Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land.” And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.

These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.

Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.

Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.