Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

It might mean Mary Magdalene, the proclaimed whore who might have been the wife of Jesus – just as a symbol for someone who came off as one thing but actually had other intentions and did something ...

These eight games concluded in such controversial ways that fans are still debating if the developers made the right choice ...

Ali Hazelwood is the prolific writer of rom-coms such as Love, Theoretically, and she first experimented with the paranormal romance subgenre with this 2024 novel. The book follows a vampire forced ...