The Best Books to Give This Season

These 71 dazzling new titles —including thrillers, cookbooks, photography collections and more — will delight any reader.

Thrillers

Heart-Stopping, Edge-of-Your-Seat Tales

By Sarah Lyall

Historical Fiction

The Season’s Best New Historical Novels

By Alida Becker

Otherworldly

Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Amal El-Mohtar

Cookbooks

Seven Dazzling New Cookbooks Bring the World to Your Table

By Jennifer Reese

Travel

Books That Satisfy Your Yearning for Far-Off Places

By Liesl Schillinger

Hollywood

This Season’s Pop-Culture Memoirs, From Will Smith to Elvira

By Lisa Schwarzbaum

Photography

Terrific Photography Books From Annie Leibovitz, Harry Gruyaert and More

By Lucy Sante

Music

From Dave Grohl to Bessie Smith, New Books on Music’s Iconoclasts

By Alan Light

Sports

They’ve Got Game: New Sports Books

By Oskar Garcia