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When Is It OK to Give Up on a Book? Our Readers Have Thoughts.

From carefree dabblers to book group die-hards, everyone, it seems, has an opinion. Just don’t tell them theirs is wrong.

7 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

When Is It OK to Give Up on a Book? Our Readers Have Thoughts.

NYT Books and Literature

This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)

We bring back an episode from our archives, in which Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario.”

11 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)

NYT Books and Literature

Children’s Picture Books About Sleep and Dreaming

New works cover everything from dreams to gods to insomnia.

11 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Children’s Picture Books About Sleep and Dreaming

NYT Books and Literature

How Thrillers Hook You With Their First Sentence

Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.

11 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

How Thrillers Hook You With Their First Sentence

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Great Movie and TV Adaptations From 21st- Century Thrillers

From “Slow Horses” to “Big Little Lies,” our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.

23 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Great Movie and TV Adaptations From 21st- Century Thrillers

NYT Books and Literature

Readers Choose the Best Thrillers and Mysteries of the Century

The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.

24 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Readers Choose the Best Thrillers and Mysteries of the Century