Tyranny, protest, cynicism, madness, hatred, fate — so, how was your year in reading? The books I’ve read so far in 2017 have seemed to reflect the mood of the times, or maybe just my mood at times.

We review more than 8,000 books per year, and these were the 10 most-read reviews of books published in 2017. Jules Abbott, the heroine of bestseller Hawkins’s twisty second psychological thriller, ...

NPR launches its 2017 Book Concierge on Tuesday, pulling together a year's worth of favorite reads from staff and critics. NPR Books editor Petra Mayer talks about some of this year's selections. It ...

Political news dominated not only headlines in 2017, but the biggest, splashiest book titles of the year as well, from Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on the Obama-Trump continuum to Hillary Clinton ...