Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow.

December’s paperback bounty includes deep dives into music history and comedy theory, a romance or two, and the latest novel from a Seattle-area novelist.

But does the way you consume your book matter to you? There are paperbacks, hard covers, e-readers, audio books. Some people even like reading off their smartphone (who hurt you?). Today ...

1 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with ...

In 'Everyday Reading', Akriti Mandhwani analyses the popularity of Hindi middlebrow literature among the North Indian ...