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Readers pick their 100 best books of the 21st century.
The people have spoken. Here are the books they voted for.
By The New York Times Books Staff
They Say It’s a Woman’s World Now. The Workplace Tells a Different Story.
Three new books document obstacles to gender equality that, in the era that brought us #MeToo, Taylor Swift and the ‘girlboss,’ we thought we’d left behind.
By Emma Goldberg
The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
3 Critics + 100 Books = Something to Argue About
The good news: Our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list showed surprising affection for works in translation. But where are Sally Rooney, Ayad Akhtar and others “explaining how we live now”?
Readers Have Thoughts About the ‘Best Books of the 21st Century’
They wanted to know where the poetry and the genre fiction were — and they also wanted to let us know which books were missing.
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Gets a Blockbuster Sequel
Our critic traces J.D. Vance’s shift from bootstrap memoirist to vice-presidential candidate.
By A.O. Scott
That’s a Dizzying List! Help Me Choose a Book.
There’s no getting around the fact that the list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is… daunting. Want to start reading a new book right away? We can help.
Visiting an Elusive Writer, and Revisiting His Masterpiece
Our critic talks to Edward P. Jones about how he imagined “The Known World,” recently voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 21st century.
Best-Seller Lists: July 28, 2024
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
Books of The Times
The Misfit Wisdom of Harry, Barry and Larry
Harry Crews, Barry Hannah and Larry Brown were part of a Southern writers’ movement that centered dissidents and outsiders. They’re still worth reading.
By Dwight Garner
The Art Critic Who Changed Many Tastes, Including His Own
Peter Schjeldahl’s final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis.
On the Lam in the Wild West, With Bounty Hunters Trailing
Kevin Barry’s new novel follows a fugitive couple from Butte, Mont., in the late 19th century.
Back When Women Were Told to ‘Write Like a Man’
For the midcentury New York intellectuals, Ronnie Grinberg writes in a new book, a particular kind of machismo was de rigueur — even for women.
By Jennifer Szalai
The Angel of Death Has Some Reservations About His Job
Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.
From Naples to New Orleans, Murder and Mayhem
Our crime columnist on four new novels.
By Sarah Weinman
2 Los Angeles Novels as Stylish and Wild as the City Itself
Elizabeth Stromme’s noir about a writer for hire; Karen Tei Yamashita’s magic realist dystopia.
‘Braveheart,’ ‘Grandpa,’ ‘Trumpster’: MAGA in 7 Keywords
A partial lexicon of modern Republicanism.
By A.O. Scott
Why Is Autocracy Thriving? Anne Applebaum Says: It’s the Economy, Stupid.
In “Autocracy, Inc.,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes account of the financial institutions and trade deals that have helped spread tyranny across the world.
By Sam Adler-Bell
A 17th-Century Parisian Literary Salon Rife With Stories and Sex
Clare Pollard’s novel “The Modern Fairies” reanimates 25 classic tales through a contemporary lens.
By S. Kirk Walsh
In These 3 Novels, Power Struggles in Every Era
Immerse yourself in tales of Machiavellian statecraft, Depression-era scandal and emotional turmoil on an R.A.F. air base.
By Alida Becker
Lev Grossman on the Enduring Story of King Arthur
The novelist discusses his latest book, “The Bright Sword,” in which Arthur has died but Excalibur lives on with a band of misfit knights.
6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
This week's selection includes titles by Jess Row, Dasha Kiper, Rachel Louise Martin and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
Sharks Don’t Sink. And Neither Does She.
In a new memoir, the marine biologist Jasmin Graham reflects on her passion for studying sharks and the barriers she refused to let stop her.
By Katrina Miller
Picture Books That See Shadows in a New Light
Bruce Handy, Lisk Feng and Cat Min present shadows for what they are: the non-nefarious interplay of light and dark.
By Leigh Ann Henion
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The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction,...
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Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. Since October 12, 1931, The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. For the third year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 12 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 11 weeks at the top of ...