Desire a book to cozy up with by a wintery window? How about an addictive page-turner for sunbathing on the beach?

Thousands of new books are published each year, and if you're a book lover – or just book curious – choosing what to read next can seem like an impossible task. A Year of Reading relieves the anxiety by helping you find just the right read, and includes fun and interactive subcategories for each choice, including:

A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both
Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life-teachers, the exact way in which they instruct, cajole, and convince remains a subject