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Walter Mosley talks about how his fictional hero frees himself from wage labor through America’s favorite side hustle: landlording.

We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases.

The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, told its story in “Human Acts.”

A sketchbook collection, a Joycean comedy and a brutal self-examination gave us a lot to look at.

Ilana Kaplan’s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.

The print sales over the Thanksgiving weekend nearly matched the first week of Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land.” And she did it while selling only at Target, avoiding Amazon and bookstores.

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.

Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.