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9 Books for Kids Starting Kindergarten

Friday, August 30, 2024 - 5:05am
By Travis Jonker
Anxiety, making new friends, learning to share: These nine titles will prepare young readers for whatever their first day of school may have in store.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


How Dinosaurs Rocked Victorian Society

Friday, August 30, 2024 - 5:02am
By Sadie Stein
In “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party,” the science writer Edward Dolnick takes on the 19th-century discovery of dinosaur fossils: “What was it like to try to grapple with an idea that hadn’t occurred to anybody?”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


3 New Horror Novels Full of Terrors That Are All Too Real

Friday, August 30, 2024 - 5:01am
By Gabino Iglesias
Our columnist reviews August’s horror releases.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 1:00pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘If Only,’ by Vigdis Hjorth

Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 5:04am
By Brian Dillon
The Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth’s latest novel to be translated into English, “If Only,” follows a decade-long affair between two married writers.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Madwoman,’ by Chelsea Bieker

Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 5:01am
By Catherine Chidgey
In Chelsea Bieker’s new novel, “Madwoman,” a woman is no longer able to keep the demons of her childhood out of her present.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Never Saw Me Coming,’ by Tanya Smith

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 3:33pm
By Reyhan Harmanci
In “Never Saw Me Coming,” Tanya Smith tells of her life as a young financial criminal — and the harsh prison sentence that changed everything.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


19 New Books to Read in September: Sally Rooney, Richard Powers and More

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 3:19pm
New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


This is genius: A new graphic novel imagines conversations between Einstein and Kafka

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 12:20pm
By Tahneer Oksman
Einstein in Kafkaland, Ken Krimstein puts us in the room with two 20th century geniuses.'/>

Turns out Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived in Prague at the same time and had the same circle of friends. In a new graphic novel, Ken Krimstein puts us in the room with two 20th century geniuses.

(Image credit: Ken Krimstein)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


11 Books for Kids Starting Middle School

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 5:06am
By Jennifer Hubert Swan
From a Judy Blume classic to mysteries both otherworldly and close to home, these 11 titles capture the nerve-racking first days of tweendom — and all the wonderful and terrible days that follow.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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