By Amanda Hess The Books Readers Loved in 2024 Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world. A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time. The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle ...

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But, while she wanted her husband dead, it seems someone beat her to the job. The latest book in the epic fantasy series finds clashes erupting all over the world and the fate of the Cosmere in ...

We’ve spent the year reading nonstop—dog-earing pages, underlining passages, and tearing through the towering stacks on our nightstands—to find the books that truly blow us away. We all loved Oprah’s ...

Sport fans: we have your Christmas sorted. Roger Alton has picked out the best sport books of 2024 ranging from the scientific way to score a penalty to the heartfelt memoir of Sir Chris Hoy.

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December 27, 2024 • Here are 10 heart-pounding novels recommended by NPR staff and critics — perfect for winter reading by the fire.

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Dec 30, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky This year’s best music, our critic thinks, defied conventions of genre and doctrine, showing how hybrid and fluid the art has become.