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A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers.

The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, told its story in “Human Acts.”

A sketchbook collection, a Joycean comedy and a brutal self-examination gave us a lot to look at.

The first week print sales nearly matched Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land,” and put her well ahead of Prince Harry’s “Spare.” And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.

Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush and poetic, and holy moly is it eerie.

“It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail,” says the author of the best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass.” Her new book is “The Serviceberry.”

An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.

A group of editors on the year’s most extraordinary novels and nonfiction.