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A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their favorite books of the year.

He is best known for his book about the Rolling Stones. But he mostly wrote about blues artists, some of them famous (B.B. King) and some less renowned (Furry Lewis).

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.

The actor and foodie admired the Nobel Prize winner’s “Aliss at the Fire,” with “Septology” up next. His own new book is “What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts).”

The actor and renowned foodie talks about his eating habits and his food diary, and we look at the fiction and nonfiction titles up for the National Book Award.

He discovered and nurtured Michael Lewis, Sebastian Junger and many other authors. He had, Mr. Lewis said, “the storytelling equivalent of perfect pitch.”

Books by Alyssa Cole, Talia Hibbert and more offer heartwarming banter and plenty of heat.

A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school choice and voucher programs instead.

She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift.”

In “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion,” he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread belief that it extended to other animals.