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  1. 100 Notable Books of 2024

    Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

     By The New York Times Books Staff

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  2. Nonfiction

    Angela Merkel Tells Us What She Really Thinks

    In her memoir, the former German chancellor reflects on her political rise and defends her record as the outlook for her country turns grim.

     By Elisabeth Zerofsky

    Chancellor Angela Merkel onstage in Berlin with the shadows of her fellow cabinet members in 2005.
    Chancellor Angela Merkel onstage in Berlin with the shadows of her fellow cabinet members in 2005.
    CreditMichael Hanschke/European Pressphoto Agency

    2. 9 Books Coming in December

      A Hitchcockian thriller, an off-the-grid memoir, novels by Weike Wang and Lily Tuck, and more.

       

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  1. Sign Up to Learn the 10 Best Books of 2024

    On Dec. 3, we’ll announce our picks. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.

     

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  2. Book Club: Read ‘Small Things Like These,’ by Claire Keegan, with the Book Review

    In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Small Things Like These,” a meditative Christmastime novella about a man confronting a local horror.

     By MJ Franklin

    Claire Keegan’s 2021 novella, “Small Things Like These,” follows a man in a small Irish town as he confronts a crisis of conscience in the lead up to Christmas.
    CreditMJ Franklin

  3. Can You Find The 13 Hidden Book Titles in This Text Puzzle?

    This very short story hides the titles of 13 popular books published in the first decade of the 21st century. Dive in and see if you can find them all — and get an instant reading list at the end.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    CreditBen Hickey

  4. 10 Picture Books That Help Kids (and Adults) Celebrate Gratitude

    Stories of giving and of appreciating everyday wonders will warm hearts and teach valuable lessons this holiday season.

     By Jennifer Hubert Swan

    CreditLorraine Nam
    Children’s Books

  5. The Nosy and Deadly 81-Year-Old With an 8-Year-Old Blackmailer

    Our columnist on new thrillers by Christopher Bollen, M.W. Craven and Marie Tierney.

     By Sarah Lyall

    CreditDoeun Choi
    Thrillers

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  1. Shopping and Shame Share the Shelves in ‘American Bulk’

    In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    “The American Dream, as we know it, is abundance,” writes Emily Mester. “But it is an equally American dream to be able to abandon, drop everything, to jettison, without guilt, anything that weighs you down.”
    CreditBrittainy Newman/The New York Times

  2. The Bataclan Terrorists’ Trial: 10 Months of Horror and Pity

    For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse, absorbing grueling testimony about the 2015 massacre at the concert hall and other venues in the city.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    French police officers stand in front of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a site of the 2015 terrorist massacre.
    CreditPool photo by Thomas Samson

  3. In a No-Nonsense Memoir, Cher Traces the Path to Stardom, With and Without Sonny

    The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and relationships with controlling men.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    Cher, at 20, in 1966, the year after she and Sonny Bono released their hit song “I Got You Babe.”
    CreditDezo Hoffman/Shutterstock

  4. The Needy Genius Who Understood the Cosmos (People, Not So Much)

    “The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Roger Penrose at Oxford University in 1982.
    CreditAlan Hillyer, via Associated Press

  5. In This Tokyo Rock Novel, the Cool Kids Are Not All Right

    “Set My Heart on Fire” follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships.

     By Molly Young

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  8. The Comedy of Pain, and Korean Food

    The comedian Youngmi Mayer is fearless on TikTok, about her Korean American identity and foodie culture. In a new memoir, she explains laughing while crying.

    By Melena Ryzik

     
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