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A reporter counted every best seller about U.S. presidents published since The Times started tracking book sales in 1931. The process took some patience.

Earnest love stories by Rainbow Rowell, TJ Klune and Talia Hibbert will tug at your heartstrings while grappling with real, often dark, issues.

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

Oral histories and rollicking memoirs by former “S.N.L.” cast members like Molly Shannon and Leslie Jones take you behind the scenes of the comedy juggernaut.

While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents a form of rebellion against its culture.

Gripping histories, cleareyed memoirs and satirical fiction can help you make sense of our political moment.

The book, “War,” lays bare just how frustrated the president has become with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war in Gaza began.

A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.

In “Beyond the Big Lie,” Bill Adair worries that the world of spin and fabrication in America has gotten out of hand.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball.