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The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.

Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush and poetic, and holy moly is it eerie.

“It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail,” says the author of the best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass.” Her new book is “The Serviceberry.”

An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.

Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year.

Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.