Inside the List: Microsoft’s Chief Wants You to Know He’s a Different Kind of Leader
Satya Nadella’s memoir, “Hit Refresh,” enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 5.
The Book Review Podcast: Jennifer Egan Talks About ‘Manhattan Beach’
Egan discusses her new novel, and Franklin Foer talks about “World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to a new stamp collection and “The Internationalists.”
Paperback Row: Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Open Book: Podcast Therapy
“WTF With Marc Maron” collects some of the most candid moments from interviews on the comedian’s popular podcast.
Nonfiction: The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve
In a new cultural history of the origins and readings of the Genesis story, Stephen Greenblatt traces a long arc.
Nonfiction: Bunny Mellon Had Peerless Taste and a Penchant for Scandal
Meryl Gordon’s latest biography reveals the inner world of an American aristocrat with a green thumb, elite Rolodex and dramatic personal life.
Help Desk: How to Fight and Fix Your Car Like a Woman
New books advise women on the most empowering ways to handle their careers, health and safety, love lives and vehicles.
Nonfiction: Loss and Grief, Channeled Through a Book Club
Anne Gisleson’s “The Futilitarians” describes how her book club led her deep into personal sorrow.
Fiction: Once Upon a Time in Post-Racial America
Danzy Senna’s new novel grapples with our utopian and impossible fantasies about transcending race.
The Shortlist: Three Novels Set in Ireland Past and Present
A murdered child, an adolescent awakening and a mysterious envelope are the subjects of three novels, all with an Irish theme.
Children's Books: Give Ghosts a Chance
A town that has banished the spirits of the dead may seem calm, but it’s on a sure path to destruction in William Alexander’s middle grade novel, “A Properly Unhaunted Place.”
Fiction: Decades After the Vietnam War, Where Does Violence Begin?
In Josephine Rowe’s debut novel, “A Loving, Faithful Animal,” a veteran disappears as his family struggles with intergenerational trauma.
Fiction: A Novelist Dissects the Claustrophobic Evil of Jim Crow
A lynching provides the catalyst in Eleanor Henderson’s second novel, “The Twelve-Mile Straight.”
Nonfiction: What a Survivor of Auschwitz Learned From the Trauma of Others
In her memoir “The Choice,” the therapist Edith Eva Eger traces her path to emotional healing alongside her patients.
Children's Books: Bullies, Ghosts and Creepy Dolls
An abandoned orphanage, a troubled girl, a nighttime thump: Beware, gentler readers. Pam Smy’s “Thornhill” is for kids — and adults — who like to be scared.
Children's Books: Frightfully Good New Picture Books to Give Kids the Shivers, or the Giggles
A mysterious girl who lives in the forest, a swamp creature raised by humans, an otherworldly pair of undies and more in this autumn’s eeriest tales.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Larry McMurtry on his Pulitzer prize-winning novel “Lonesome Dove.”
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: 3 Books on Guns in America
Days after a mass shooting in Las Vegas left 59 dead, books that ponder the gun control debate and effects of these tragedies.
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