The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. “American Canto,” published amid a scandal over the journalist’s alleged romantic entanglements with ...

September 18, 2025 • A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're ...