NYT Books

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

Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai, book critics at The New York Times, recommend three road trip books.

The fantasy author Ayana Gray recommends gripping novels where the monsters are heroes, villains and everything in between.

The musician and actor has written a new foreword to “The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones,” the cult western novel made into a movie by Sam Peckinpah.

The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in “Unfettered.”

Lighthearted in tone, and free of violence and gore, these gentle, witty books are the perfect antidote for tough times. If you’ve never read any, here’s where to start.

Novels by R.F. Kuang and Louis Sachar, a spicy culinary memoir, a new Octavia E. Butler biography and more.

Our columnist reviews “The Library at Hellebore,” a new novel from the horror mainstay Cassandra Khaw, and two other notably gory releases.

After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere.

As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.