It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush ...

The stories in these history books will have believing the truth really is stranger than fiction. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer's having an easy life.

Now, forty-five years on, I think I’m finally there. I’m writing this book before my memories of half a century ago tip over into that chasm of forgetfulness that shadows old age," Spencer ...

The opening page of Malka Older’s new book says simply, “There are other ways to live.” That idea carries through so many of this year’s best science-fiction books, which are full of ...

From new novels, nonfiction books and celeb memoirs, find your next fall read here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries ... is a socially awkward but well meaning nerd whose tendency to embroider the truth soon lands him in trouble. Upon their arrival in Africa ...

This is the prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.

Based on the books by Marc Brown, these are the adventures of Arthur ... paranormal events and menaces that appear around their land. In present day US, a kid releases four ancient Egyptian mummy ...