Fiction
I, Knausgaard
With Book 6 of “My Struggle,” the famous Norwegian author completes the saga of his life — a work perfectly suited to the age of the blog.
Highlights
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Escaping Slavery in a Hot-Air Balloon
In Esi Edugyan’s daringly imagined new novel, “Washington Black,” an enslaved boy and his master’s brother flee a plantation in a flying contraption and forge an unlikely bond.
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By the Book: Reese Witherspoon
The actor and author of the new book “Whiskey in a Teacup” wishes she had five days in a cabin just to read, with “no emails, no text messages and no obligations or deadlines.”
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Is America’s Most Popular Sport Under Siege?
As Mark Leibovich demonstrates in “Big Game,” his book about the N.F.L., the Lords of the League can’t cope with minor embarrassments, much less serious scandals.
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Nonfiction
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CreditScience Source Termites Are Actually Shrunken Cockroaches and Other Things About Them You Really Don’t Want to Know
In Lisa Margonelli’s “Underbug,” she focuses on the extraordinary capabilities of the termite and what the insect can teach us about ourselves.
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Nonfiction
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CreditRKO Why ‘Little Women’ Still Matters, 150 Years On
In “Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy,” Anne Boyd Rioux seeks to restore a classic to its proper place.
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Editors’ Choice
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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The Book Review
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Credit Esi Edugyan on ‘Washington Black’
“It’s paramount for me to always be changing gears and shifting and trying something new,” says Ms. Edugyan.
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Best Sellers
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All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Nonfiction
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CreditPhiladelphia Bulletin, via Associated Press Behind the Kidnapping Case That Inspired ‘Lolita’
Two new books, Sarah Weinman’s “The Real Lolita” and T. Greenwood’s “Rust and Stardust,” revisit the story of Sally Horner’s 1948 abduction.
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Essay
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CreditTim Lane Impersonating Philip Marlowe
What happened when the novelist Lawrence Osborne agreed to write a book in the voice of Raymond Chandler’s iconic gumshoe.
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Romance
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CreditLisk Feng In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage
All romance novels have happy endings. How they get there, though, is a lot more interesting when the protagonists must grapple with personal shortcomings.
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Round Table
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CreditReportagebild, via Associated Press The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t.
With the 2018 prize postponed by scandal, The Times’s staff book critics discuss the award’s history and influence — and whom they would give it to this year if they could.
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Nonfiction
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CreditMichael Houtz The Power of the Supreme Court Inside America’s Schools
In a timely new book, “The Schoolhouse Gate,” the University of Chicago law professor Justin Driver traces the influence of our highest court on schools and classrooms.
