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.

According to Stanley's Great Big Book of Adventure, the book was first started in prehistoric times by a special caveman who drew a picture of a smilodon (who posed for the picture) on a leaf with an ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Love In Translation by Joss Wood and Accused by Lynda La Plante. This week’s new ...

Whether you're a die hard foodie, love a brilliant fiction novel with a twist or want war commentary from a Pulitzer Prize ...

By Brian Raftery The Books Readers Loved in 2024 A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around ...

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.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...

Irresistible picks for readers of all kinds of romance, from enemies-to-lovers to marriage of convenience to just one bed by Casey McQuiston by Casey McQuiston by Frances Burney by Jane Austen by ...

transforming from big, heavy, and quite ugly beige boxes that took up a lot of desk space to something no bigger than a hardback book that packs enough power to handle all but the most demanding ...