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

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

Take a peek at this year’s winners.

Take a peek at this year’s winners.

Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.

For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling.

In his biography of a city bureaucrat, Robert Caro created a lasting portrait of American corruption by turning the craft of journalism into a pursuit of high art.

Her own is among the anonymous tales included in “Want,” a new collection she has edited: “It only felt right, given I was requesting courage from everyone else.”

The feminist thinker is celebrated as a prophet of empowerment and self-care. A new biography shows how she saw our future even more keenly.

Jesse Appell left everything behind to pursue a comedy career in China, where Western-style club comedy was just finding its footing.