Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow.

But does the way you consume your book matter to you? There are paperbacks, hard covers, e-readers, audio books. Some people even like reading off their smartphone (who hurt you?). Today ...

How many colors are needed to color a map? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than even numbers? These and other mathematical puzzles are explored in this delightful book ...

1 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with ...

Dark magic and trauma are at the heart of Nino Cipri’s young adult debut, DEAD GIRLS DON’T DREAM (Holt Books for Young ...

In 'Everyday Reading', Akriti Mandhwani analyses the popularity of Hindi middlebrow literature among the North Indian ...