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

“It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She thanks her own mother for the gift of Margaret Atwood. In his ...

Children’s book publishers were invited to submit up to 10 picture books published this year in the United States. The judges ...

Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood. By The New York Times Books Staff Novels by Haruki Murakami and Rebecca Yarros, memoirs by Angela Merkel and Cher ...

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller ... In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture ...

With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy. A new kind of disaster fiction is ...

Mirandi Babitz and the Huntington Library In a new biography ... led to two best sellers — including “The Wild Robot,” which is now a blockbuster movie. In his latest book, the Rolling ...