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Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world.

Readers suggest books that help make sense of the nation’s most populous state.

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

At the start of the season, we made a literary bucket list. Here’s how we checked it off.

The latest from a Nobel laureate, a “Hunger Games” prequel and more.

New fiction from Michael Cunningham, Sigrid Nunez and others; a candid Mitt Romney biography; and memoirs by Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and more.

In “Reading the Room,” Paul Yamazaki, the chief buyer for City Lights Booksellers, calls this “one of the richest and most rewarding times” to be a literature fan.

“I wanted to tell a story that encompassed the gender spectrum,” said Tonatiuh, who transformed his body to play the queer window dresser Luis Molina.

Turning to books for workout inspiration is probably a terrible idea.