Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign ...

6. “Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 1: The Novel,” Suji Kim (Inklore) 7. “The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel,” Michael Connelly ...

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

You’ve done all your gift shopping for this season already, right? What?? You haven’t?? Don’t panic. Books make great gift ...