Readers’ favorites shifted a bit, but no new titles joined the list during the week of Christmas and the start of Hanukkah.

New this week The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War. If a book is not in a rank since the ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time ... and editors at The New York Times. Clay McLeod Chapman kept ...