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

The Murty Classical Library of India sifts through multiple languages and thousands of years to bring a nation’s literary ...

Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel. Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising ...

Sara is Moroccan American like Lalami, who has dug deep into her heritage for past novels including “The Moor’s Account,” ...

Like its characters, Brian Castleberry’s second novel, “The Californians,” is full of ambition. It spans eras of American ...

Author Betsy Longenbaugh draws upon both her research and her imagination to give more flesh and blood to the lives of ...

Sarah Harman’s first novel, “All the Other Mothers Hate Me,” “is a breezy read with more than a few lol moments,” writes AP ...

The Shark Nursery' is a one-of-a-kind book, filled with achingly beautiful poems that show a true artist at her absolute peak ...

What follows, as recounted in the new memoir, “Raising Hare,” was an unexpected experiment in coexistence. The book is part ...