Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

He decides to make Dorian his “elaborate masterpiece” and gives the younger man a book that “poisons” him. Lord Henry will ...

Hoping to catch the eye of the boy she likes, 13-year-old Deecie Jeffries sneaks out of the house in Austin, Texas, in 1987 ...

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Since Trump won the election, Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has ...