From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year.

The midcentury renaissance man whose career was "a flurry of interiors and fabrics, signage and record albums, and ...

“Mafalda: Book One” by Quino, translated from Spanish by Frank Wynne. The beloved Argentine comic strip makes its long-awaited English debut, introducing U.S. readers to a sharp-witted six-year-old ...