Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book
By The New York Times Books Staff
Updated Feb. 22, 2024
See the full list of our latest recommended new books.
Tinier, but just as mighty.
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Read the books that inspired Oscar nominees.
The film “Oppenheimer” stands on the shoulders of this exhaustive and exhilarating 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning biography — which took 25 years to complete.
This 2017 book is a shattering history of oil greed, racism and serial murder. The film version is a different animal, illuminating different aspects of the story.
The basis for “American Fiction" is a satire about the publishing industry's biases, and has renewed attention about how much (or little) has changed for nonwhite authors since it came out.
Amis's 2014 novel, a love story set at a concentration camp, “builds to a haunting conclusion that slams home the horror of the Holocaust,” our critic wrote.
In this 2018 memoir, Leonard Bernstein’s elder daughter is a warm and unsparing witness to her father’s glory — and the fallout of his celebrity.
Set in 1800s Glasgow, this novel follows a woman who was reanimated by a scientist. It’s a political story that extols Victorian values, but is “witty and delightfully written,” our reviewer said.
Read more about Toni Morrison's essential works.
Your literary life doesn’t need to suffer, even if you’re pressed for time.
The Best Children’s Books of 2023
See the full list of 2023's best children's books.
In this playful story, precious things (water, the setting sun) are taken from us, and then joyfully returned.
There Was a Party for Langston
A poetic picture book makes a party out of language.
A Black second grader is made to feel “too big” in so many ways that she grows almost larger than the book, until the story restores her inner glow.
A wise and heartfelt tale follows a young boy grieving his father, who discovers sketches, poems and a note telling him to draw and write his own story
This comedic story for middle-grade readers is narrated by a vivacious dog.
Martín’s wildly entertaining graphic memoir chronicles his family’s 1977 trip in a used Winnebago from California to Jalisco.
Woodson conjures a captivating, elegiac story from the ashes of a frightening summer in 1970s Brooklyn.
What’s on Abraham Verghese’s night stand?
The author of “The Covenant of Water” talked about his reading habits, saying his stack of books “reflects the overlapping compartments of my life.” Read his By the Book interview.
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