The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

Some of our favorites this year include great stocking stuffers like Lego’s Dungeons & Dragons minifigs and the spicy game of ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford became a publishing sensation in her 40s with "A Woman of Substance" and wrote more than dozen other ...

It took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to unravel the mystery of the ...