Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New York City, ...

The story he tells—drawing on new archeological findings, a fresh reading of eighteenth-century visitors’ accounts, and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Bantam Classics. Picture this. It’s a cold, blustery winter afternoon. You’ve secured a cozy seat by the crackling ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

What began as a viral tweet became one of the most discussed and widely praised books of the year, the winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In October 2023, journalist and author Omar El ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you agree or disagree with the inclusions (and, yes, exclusions), one thing remains true after 30 go-rounds: There's ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

Few 2024 books were as much rip-roaring fun as this Boston-set thriller about two loners whose lives are upended by World War II. Anna, who is Jewish, feels intimately connected with the cause of the ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...