Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Children’s book publishers were invited to submit up to 10 picture books published this year in the United States. The judges ...

Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the ...

Peter Brown’s obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including “The Wild ...

Bookstores say customers love “Blind Date With a Book,” which masks a book’s real cover and lets readers discover what’s ...

It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She ...

John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller ... In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture ...

A novel within a novel fueled her hit thriller, “The Plot.” Keeping the stories straight was even harder for “The Sequel.” ...

A Dutch Love Story in a Time of Silence: In Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel, “The Safekeep,” the writer spins an erotic ...

By Dave Kim In a new biography, Peter Ames Carlin chronicles ... from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short ...