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February 27, 2024

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Hi readers,

Blame my years as a Girl Scout, blame the number of earth signs in my astrological chart — I'm at my happiest when I feel useful. It's in this spirit that I share a page I hope you'll bookmark and return to again and again, one that helps you avoid what can be a soul-crushing question: What should I read next?

My colleagues and I pulled together a range of recommendations to suit nearly any reader, from new paperbacks to children's books to books that inspired this year's Oscar nominees. I hope you find something you love! And please feel free to write in with any suggestions of what else you'd like to see featured on this page. You can reach me by emailing books@nytimes.com.

See you next week.

In other news

  • Before "Poor Things" was a weird, Oscar-nominated movie, it was a weird, well-loved novel. Here's the history of that book, by the Scottish author Alasdair Gray.
  • Aaron Lansky spent a lifetime building the Yiddish Book Center, one of the country's leading Jewish cultural institutions, and saved 1.5 million books. He's ready to hand over the reins — and might now even have some time to read the books he rescued.
  • For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church. Now that work that has culminated in a new book.
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