What the critics thought of Catherine Nixey’s The Darkening Age, Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Rodric Braithwaite’s Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation

What the critics thought of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey; Jaron Lanier’s Dawn of the New Everything: and Artemis by Andy Weir

What the critics thought of David Cannadine’s Victorious Century; William Boyd’s The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth; Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere

What the critics thought of Gordon Brown’s My Life, Our Times; Susie Boyt’s Love and Fame; and Graeme Macrae Burnet’s The Accident on the A35

What the critics thought of Sugar Money by Jane Harris; The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff; and When They Go Low, We Go High by Philip Collins

What the critics thought of Ali Smith’s Winter; Lyndall Gordon’s Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World; Yanis Varoufakis’s Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

What the critics thought of Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo da Vinci; Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage; Attica Locke’s Bluebird, Bluebird

What the critics thought of Lindsey Fitzharris’s The Butchering Art; Edward St Aubyn’s Dunbar; and After the Fire by Henning Mankell

What the critics thought of Jenny Uglow’s Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense; Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair; and Origin by Dan Brown

What the critics thought of Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach; Martin Amis’s The Rub of Time and Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

What the critics thought of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone, Robert Harris’s Munich and Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House, Hillary Clinton’s What Happened, Sigrid Rausing’s Mayhem: A Memoir

What the critics thought of John le Carré’s A Legacy of Spies, Claire Tomalin’s A Life of My Own and Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard

What the critics thought of Robert McCrum’s Every Third Thought; Maggie O’Farrell’s I Am, I Am, I Am; James Kelman’s That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

What the critics thought of James Hamilton’s Gainsborough: A Portrait; Clair Wills’s Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Postwar Britain; and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire

What the critics thought of Jennie Melamed’s Gather the Daughters; Fiona Mozley’s Elmet; and Ruth Fitzmaurice’s I Found My Tribe

What the critics thought of Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me in the Bathroom; Anthony Quinn’s Eureka; and What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

What the critics though of Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War; Phii Hoare’s RisingTideFallingStar; and H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker

What the critics thought of Anthony Warner’s The Angry Chef, Naoki Higashida’s Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 and The Party by Elizabeth Day

What the critics thought of Matthew Engel’s That’s the Way It Crumbles, Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time and Madame Zero by Sarah Hall