Wordless picture books are great for encouraging a child’s ability to infer what happens in the story. Confidence and independent reading are two other important hallmarks of good readers.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group ...