Since the start of the New Year, we’ve asked members of our staff to share some of the best books they discovered in 2024 so ...

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...

After conducting extensive interviews, An crafted a feature story titled Nora on the Plains, delving into Liu's turbulent ...

A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy. A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner Try this short ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

To mark the start of 2025, we surveyed critics, editors and writers to determine the best (or at least their best) books from the last 25 years. Let the debates begin. My Year of Rest and ...

Hurston, the author of the Harlem renaissance classic “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” passed away in 1960, and this unfinished novel was never published until now. It’s a sequel of sorts to ...

January 7, 2025 • Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her death. The novel expands on her interest in the ...

In his book, Lessons from the Land of Pork Scratchings: A Miserable Yank Finds Happiness in the UK, Greg revealed that he and Elena got married after five months of dating. “I should mention ...