Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, ...

This picture book biography shares about the life of Mary ... every word and avoid many spellings of the same word. It was a ...

This year saw the release of Craig Brown’s magnum opus on the late Queen, as well as dissections of the messy difficulty of ...

David Elmo Cooper, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, discovered his love of art, specifically comic books and graffiti, at a ...

Selected by Amy Reading, the author, most recently, of “The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker.” ...

He's still the king. 'Carson the Magnificent,' Bill Zehme's long-awaited Johnny Carson biography, is officially a New York ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

While the 650 pages in between document the main events of her life, the book is not strictly a biography. Best described as a case study of the national consciousness, it might be filed under ...

This year’s very best biographies and memoirs certainly cover some varied terrain, emotionally and otherwise. Fans of literary biographies have been treated to books providing enlightening new ...

In a new biography, Peter Ames Carlin chronicles ... 19 on our list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, has now been adapted into a streaming series. Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue ...