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The best children's books of 2020

Not all snowflakes are found on Twitter. Here's our roundup of the best books for children with independent minds

By Emily Bearn 14 Dec 2020, 4:35pm
The 50 best books of 2020

Our critics round up the year's best reads, from thought-provoking non-fiction to page-turning thrillers

By Telegraph Reporters 1 Dec 2020, 5:15pm
The best UK politics books of 2020

From Westminster to Wandsworth prison – tales of a turbulent 12 months in our nation’s history

By Jamie Blackett 29 Nov 2020, 2:00pm
The best foreign affairs books of 2020

By Colin Freeman 29 Nov 2020, 12:00pm
The best poetry books of 2020

By Tristram Fane Saunders 29 Nov 2020, 10:00am
The best music books of 2020

By Neil McCormick 28 Nov 2020, 6:00pm
The best history books of 2020

By Simon Heffer 28 Nov 2020, 12:00pm

The best 'smart thinking' books of 2020

From fossilised iPhones to the joys of not showering, non-fiction ranged far and wide this year

By Simon Ings 28 Nov 2020, 12:00pm
The best science books of 2020

Let science writers take you on one hell of a trip – from magic mushrooms to potatoes on Mars

By Steven Poole 28 Nov 2020, 10:00am
The 12 best love poems for Valentine's Day 2020, from Walt Whitman to Carol Ann Duffy

By Charlotte Runcie 14 Feb 2020, 4:09pm

The 31 best thrillers and crime novels of 2019

By Jake Kerridge 10 Dec 2019, 1:39pm
The 44 best children’s books and YA novels of 2019

By Emily Bearn 6 Dec 2019, 10:15am
The 50 best books of 2019

By Telegraph Reporters 15 Nov 2019, 5:00pm
The 11 must-read books of autumn 2019

By Iona McLaren 3 Sep 2019, 11:30am

50 best things to see at the Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival – from art to books and ballet

By Telegraph Reporters 16 Aug 2019, 2:10pm
Best holiday beach reads: 75 books to read this summer

23 Jul 2019, 7:56am
The 100 best children's books of all time

By Telegraph Reporters 23 May 2019, 12:55pm
15 essential books to read this Spring

By Iona McLaren 30 Mar 2019, 5:00pm
The 28 best thrillers and crime novels of 2018

By Jake Kerridge 27 Feb 2019, 5:30pm
From Ian Fleming to Ann Cleeves: Desert Island Discs' best crime writer castaways

By Jake Kerridge 18 Feb 2019, 12:28pm
Read this, Marie Kondo: 30 books guaranteed to spark joy

By Kat Brown 29 Jan 2019, 12:31pm
The 50 best books of 2018

By Telegraph Reporters 30 Dec 2018, 1:50pm

Christmas books 2018: children's and young adult – a fabulous haul of ripping yarns

By Emily Bearn 21 Dec 2018, 1:02pm
The best poetry books of 2018: the Cold War, Kierkegaard and an ode to fatbergs

By Tristram Fane Saunders 18 Dec 2018, 12:50pm

Christmas Books 2018: history – from spies to statesmen, a feast of anecdote

By Simon Heffer 18 Dec 2018, 12:47pm
Christmas Books 2018: American politics – the year 'Trump lit' stormed the charts

By Harriet Alexander 17 Dec 2018, 4:27pm
Christmas books 2018: crime and spy thrillers – detective fiction better than anything on the Booker shortlist

By Jake Kerridge 17 Dec 2018, 10:55am
Christmas Books 2018: fiction – from blockbuster novels to sly memoirs-in-disguise

By Claire Allfree 14 Dec 2018, 6:26pm
12 birthdays of Christmas: famous people born on December 25

By Tristram Fane Saunders 13 Dec 2018, 4:32pm
How Japan went through a painful, turbocharged modernisation — twice

By Alex Dudok de Wit 24 Nov 2018, 12:00pm
Christmas books 2018: music – sex and drugs and beans on toast

By Helen Brown 12 Nov 2018, 8:10am
Christmas Books 2018: science – 'Many animals learn. Only humans teach'

By Steven Poole 11 Nov 2018, 7:00am

Christmas books 2018: sport – stories to stop you in your tracks

By Martin Chilton 10 Nov 2018, 9:00am
Can't decide which books to pack for your holiday? Leave it to me...

By Allison Pearson 15 Jul 2018, 8:00am

Summer's 100 hottest tickets: the best TV, film, art, theatre and music

2 Jul 2018, 1:47pm
The best biographies and autobiographies ever written

By Telegraph Reporters 22 Jun 2018, 10:34am
Summer fiction: the best new novels, thrillers, crime books and short stories

By Telegraph Reporters 10 Jun 2018, 7:00am
Non-fiction: the best new biographies, history, science and politics books

By Telegraph Reporters 9 Jun 2018, 7:00am

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