A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

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Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

Are you looking to be inspired by a new biography? What about cracking open a heart-racing thriller? There’s always romance, too, if you're in the mood for love. Whether you’re picking another book ...

Illustration by Natalie Nelson for TIME; Source image: Ivan Dmitri—Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Senior Editor The best of this year's fiction features characters who, like so many, feel like ...

There are a ton of different subgenres within fiction. If you want to dive into a novel to escape to another world, there are seemingly endless ways to do just that. Some genres (and subsequent ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you books our editors love, the best historical fiction of 2025, reissues of classic mystery novels, novels that bring the 17th century to life, our ...

So, in no particular order, here they are: New Scientist’s favourite science fiction books of all time. We’d love to hear from readers, too, about your own favourite sci-fi. Join the conversation on ...