We asked our writers what books moved them the most, and they had plenty of suggestions. After a lot of back and forth, and a really hard time narrowing down the selections, we picked ten favorites.

See our favorite books of the year, from celebrity memoirs to buzzy literary fiction Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

As ever, I can’t claim to have read all the hundreds of books that were published this year or to believe I can say which are “best.” But these are some of the books I loved most ...

Young Alan Turing might have been willing to join his friends in a game of field hockey but probably wasn’t the player to count on for a goal. He tended to get distracted. His mother, Ethel ...

Taken together, these books offer a reminder: even outsiders are never truly alone. Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New ...

What’s more: In many cases, it doesn’t even require leaving home. Take our selection of 2024 travel books, which traverse the globe from the quiet bottom of the Grand Canyon to the chaotic ...

She is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. Dec. 6, 2024 Of the many great books I read this year, the following 10 have stayed with me, undergirded my thoughts as I go about ...

Levin argues, we ought to take another look at the founding documents themselves. Among the book’s many salient and timely contentions: Modern assumptions about the president’s role ...