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A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.

Dwight Garner writes that voters, who “seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage,” looked for immersive reads.

Sometimes we forget that moving is not just about goodbyes. It’s also about hellos.

In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.

The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.

A muckraking journalist, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.

Arthur, the former publisher of Knopf, is joining Hachette Book Group to start and run a new imprint.

Some of their favorites didn’t make our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list — but these authors make a case for them anyway.

In Yasmin Zaher’s “The Coin,” a rich, chic Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City grapples with displacement and American consumerism.

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to me.”