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It’s the first of the month, which means our favorite celebrity book clubs are beginning to announce their December 2025 book club picks. Today Show co-host Jenna Bush Hager had her calendar marked ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

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’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between in literature? Here we review the latest titles.See all 51 stories. From the nation’s lexicographers comes a brisk and barbed compendium of the insults, ...

Sometimes the only way to soothe the pain of leaving your book boyfriend on the page is naming your furry friend after him. Following the smash release of “Onyx Storm” earlier this year, “Fourth Wing” ...

Waterstones has named Lucy Steeds’ debut novel, and winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, The Artist as its Book of the Year for 2025. The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was ...