''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''

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'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read

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publications in the industry. The magazine's offices are located near

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in New York City.

Overview

The ''New York Times'' has published a book review section since Saturday, October 10, 1896, announcing: "We begin today the publication of a Supplement which contains reviews of new books ... and other interesting matter ... associated with news of the day." In 1911, the review was moved to Sundays, on the theory that it would be more appreciatively received by readers with a bit of time on their hands. The target audience is an intelligent, general-interest adult reader. The ''Times'' publishes two versions each week, one with a cover price sold via subscription, bookstores, and newsstands; the other with no cover price included as an insert in each Sunday edition of the ''Times'' (the copies are otherwise identical). Each week, the ''NYTBR'' receives 750 to 1000 books from authors and publishers in the mail, of which 20 to 30 are chosen for review. Books are selected by the "preview editors" who read over 1,500 advance galleys a year. The selection process is based on finding books that are important and notable, as well as discovering new authors whose books stand above the crowd. Self-published books are generally not reviewed as a matter of policy. Books not selected for review are stored in a "discard room" and then sold. ,

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arrived about once a month to purchase the contents of the discard room, and the proceeds are then donated by ''NYTBR'' to charities. Books that are actually reviewed are usually donated to the reviewer. As of 2015, all review critics are freelance; the ''NYTBR'' does not have staff critics. In prior years, the ''NYTBR'' did have in-house critics, or a mix of in-house and freelance. For freelance critics, they are assigned an in-house "preview editor" who works with them in creating the final review. Freelance critics might be employees of ''The New York Times'' whose main duties are in other departments. They also include professional literary critics, novelists, academics, and artists who write reviews for the ''NYTBR'' on a regular basis. Other duties on staff include a number of senior editors and a chief editor; a team of copy editors; a letter pages editor who reads letters to the editor; columnists who write weekly columns, such as the "Paperback Row" column; a production editor; a web and Internet publishing division; and other jobs. In addition to the magazine there is an Internet site that offers additional content, including audio interviews with authors, called the "Book Review Podcast". The book review publishes each week the widely cited and influential ''New York Times'' Best Seller list, which is created by the editors of the ''Times'' "News Surveys" department. In 2021, on the 125th anniversary of the ''Book Review'',

Parul Sehgal Parul Sehgal (born ) is an American literary critic. She worked as an editor at NPR and '' The New York Times Book Review'', and later was one of the book critics at the ''New York Times''. She was a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' from 2021 ...

a staff critic and former editor at the ''Book Review'', wrote a review of the NYTBR titled "Reviewing the Book Review". "Inside The New York Times Book Review" is the oldest and most popular podcast at The New York Times. The debut episode was released on April 30, 2006 and the show has been recorded weekly ever since.

Editors

* 2022–present: Gilbert Cruz * 2013-2022: Pamela Paul * 2004-2013: Sam Tanenhaus

1983 ''Legion'' court case

In 1983,

William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel ''The Exorcist (novel), The Exorcist'' and for his screenplay for The Exorcist, the 1973 film adaptat ...

sued the ''New York Times Book Review'' for failing to include his 1983 novel, '' Legion'', in its best-seller list. ''The New York Times'' had previously claimed that it based its "best-seller list" is based on computer-processed sales figures from 2,000 bookstores across the United States. Blatty contended that ''Legion'' had sold enough copies to be included on the list. Lawyers for ''The New York Times'' did not deny this, but stated that the content of its best-seller list is a subjectively editorial compilation. The court ruled in favor of ''The New York Times'', relying on the First Amendment precedent of '' Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo'' (1974)''.''

Best Books of the Year and Notable Books

Each year since 1968, around the beginning of December, a list of notable books and/or editor's choice ("Best Books") is announced. Beginning in 2004, it consists of a "100 Notable Books of the Year" list (Page has links to previous years also.) which contains

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

and

non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real life, real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to pre ...

titles, 50 of each. From the list of 100, 10 books are awarded the "Best Books of the Year" title, five each of fiction and non-fiction. Other year-end lists include the Best Illustrated Children's Books, in which 10 books are chosen by a panel of judges.

1990s

1998 The Notable Books were announced December 6, 1998. The eleven Editor's Choice books were announced December 6, 1998. *

Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing. Biography Mar ...

, '' Birds of America'' *

Russell Banks Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 – January 8, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry. His novels are known for "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". He drew from ...

, '' Cloudsplitter'' * Richard Fortey, '' Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth'' * Alice Munro, '' The Love of a Good Woman'' * Barbara Kingsolver, '' The Poisonwood Bible'' *

David Gates David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is a retired American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread (band), Bread, which reached the top of the musical ch ...

, ''Preston Falls'' *

Ron Chernow Ronald Chernow (; born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies. Chernow won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American ...

, '' Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'' * Richard Holbrooke, ''To End a War'' * Hilary Spurling, ''The Unknown Matisse'' * Graham Robb, ''Victor Hugo: A Biography'' * Philip Gourevitch, '' We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda'' 1999 The Notable Books were announced December 5, 1999. The eleven Editor's Choice books were announced December 5, 1999. * Richard A. Posner, ''An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton'' * Annie Proulx, '' Close Range: Wyoming Stories'' * Richard Holmes, ''Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834'' *

J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...

, '' Disgrace'' * Antonio Damasio, ''The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness'' *

John Keegan Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, ...

, ''The First World War'' *

Michael Frayn Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce ''Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen (play), Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy (play), Democracy''. Frayn's novel ...

, '' Headlong'' * Jean Strouse, ''Morgan: American Financier'' * Inga Clendinnen, ''Reading the Holocaust'' * Judith Thurman, ''Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette'' *

Roddy Doyle Roderick Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been ...

, '' A Star Called Henry''

2000s

2000 The Notable Books were announced December 3, 2000. The 10 Editor's Choice books were announced December 3, 2000. * Jim Crace, '' Being Dead'' * Unknown, ''

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'' (translation by

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

) * Matt Ridley, '' Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters'' *

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...

, '' Gertrude and Claudius'' *

Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. His 2000 memoir, '' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'', became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Eggers is a ...

, '' A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story'' * Philip Roth, '' The Human Stain'' * Tom Segev, ''One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate'' * Graham Robb, ''Rimbaud: A Biography'' * Frances FitzGerald, ''Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War'' *

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the ...

, ''

White Teeth ''White Teeth'' is British author Zadie Smith's debut novel, published in 2000. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones—and their families in London. The novel centres ...

'' 2001 The Notable Books were announced December 2, 2001. The 9 Editor's Choice books were announced December 2, 2001. * W.G. Sebald, '' Austerlitz'' * Paula Fox, ''Borrowed Finery: A Memoir'' * Jonathan Franzen, '' The Corrections'' * Alice Munro, '' Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage'' *

Colson Whitehead Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 in literature, 1999 debut ''The Intuitionist''; ''The Underground Railroad (novel), The Underground Railroad'' (2016) ...

, '' John Henry Days'' *

Louis Menand Louis Menand (; born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book '' The Metaphysical Club'' (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America. Life ...

, '' The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'' * Peter Carey, '' True History of the Kelly Gang'' *

Oliver Sacks Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurology, neurologist, Natural history, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford ...

, '' Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood'' 2002 The Notable Books were announced December 8, 2002. The 7 Editor's Choice books were announced December 8, 2002. * Miranda Carter, ''Anthony Blunt: His Lives'' *

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of the ...

, ''

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'' * Lorna Sage, '' Bad Blood'' * Jeffrey Eugenides, ''

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'' *

Margaret MacMillan Margaret Olwen MacMillan (born 23 December 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryers ...

, '' Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World'' * William Kennedy, '' Roscoe'' * Timothy Ferris, ''Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril'' 2003 The Notable Books were announced December 7, 2003. The 9 Editor's Choice books were announced December 7, 2003. * Caroline Alexander, ''The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty'' * Monica Ali, ''Brick Lane'' * T. Coraghessan Boyle, '' Drop City'' * Jonathan Lethem, '' The Fortress of Solitude'' * William Taubman, '' Khrushchev: The Man and His Era'' * Edward P. Jones, '' The Known World'' *

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th centur ...

, '' Living to Tell the Tale'' * Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, ''Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx'' 2004 The 100 Notable Books were announced December 5, 2004. The 10 Best Books were announced December 12, 2004. *

, ''

Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 dur ...

'' *

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...

, ''Chronicles: Volume One'' * David Hackett Fischer, ''Washington's Crossing (book), Washington's Crossing'' * Stephen Greenblatt, ''Will in the World, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'' * Ha Jin, ''War Trash'' * Alice Munro, ''Runaway (book), Runaway'' * Orhan Pamuk, ''Snow (Pamuk novel), Snow'' * Marilynne Robinson, ''Gilead (novel), Gilead'' * Philip Roth, ''The Plot Against America'' * Colm Tóibín, ''The Master (novel), The Master'' 2005 The 100 Notable Books were announced December 4, 2005. The 10 Best Books were announced December 11, 2005. * Joan Didion, ''The Year of Magical Thinking'' * Mary Gaitskill, ''Veronica'' * Jonathan Harr, ''The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'' * Tony Judt, ''Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945'' *

, ''Saturday (novel), Saturday'' * Haruki Murakami, ''Kafka on the Shore'' * George Packer, ''The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq'' * Curtis Sittenfeld, ''Prep'' *

, ''On Beauty'' * Mark Stevens (art critic), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, ''de Kooning: An American Master'' 2006 The 100 Notable Books were announced December 3, 2006. The 10 Best Books were announced December 10, 2006. * Richard Ford, ''The Lay of the Land'' * Amy Hempel, ''The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel'' * Claire Messud, ''The Emperor's Children'' * Marisha Pessl, ''Special Topics in Calamity Physics'' * Nathaniel Philbrick, ''Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War'' * Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'' * Gary Shteyngart, ''Absurdistan (novel), Absurdistan'' * Rory Stewart, ''The Places In Between'' * Danielle Trussoni, ''Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir'' * Lawrence Wright, ''The Looming Tower, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11'' 2007 The 100 Notable Books were announced December 2, 2007. The 10 Best Books were announced December 9, 2007. * Roberto Bolaño, ''The Savage Detectives'' * Rajiv Chandrasekaran, ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone'' * Linda Colley, ''The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History'' * Joshua Ferris, ''Then We Came to the End'' * Denis Johnson, ''Tree of Smoke, Tree of Smoke: A Novel'' * Mildred Armstrong Kalish, ''Little Heathens'' * Per Petterson, ''Out Stealing Horses'' * Alex Ross (music critic), Alex Ross, ''The Rest Is Noise, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century'' * Michael Thomas (Man Gone Down author), Michael Thomas, ''Man Gone Down, Man Gone Down: A Novel'' * Jeffrey Toobin, ''The Nine (book), The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court'' 2008 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 26, 2008. The 10 Best Books were announced December 14, 2008. * Julian Barnes, ''Nothing to Be Frightened Of'' * Roberto Bolaño, ''2666'' * Drew Gilpin Faust, ''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War'' * Dexter Filkins, ''The Forever War (non-fiction book), The Forever War'' * Patrick French, ''The World Is What It Is, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul'' * Jhumpa Lahiri, ''Unaccustomed Earth'' * Jane Mayer, ''The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals'' * Steven Millhauser, ''Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories'' * Toni Morrison, ''A Mercy'' * Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964), Joseph O'Neill, ''Netherland (novel), Netherland'' 2009 The 100 Notable Books were announced December 6, 2009. The 10 Best Books were announced December 13, 2009. * Liaquat Ahamed, ''Lords of Finance, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World'' * David Finkel, ''The Good Soldiers'' * Richard Holmes, ''The Age of Wonder, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science'' * Mary Karr, ''Lit: A Memoir'' * Jonathan Lethem, ''Chronic City'' * Maile Meloy, ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It'' *

, ''A Gate at the Stairs'' * Carol Sklenicka, ''Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life'' * Kate Walbert, ''A Short History of Women'' * Jeannette Walls, ''Half Broke Horses''

2010s

2010 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 24, 2010. The 10 Best Books were announced December 1, 2010. * Ann Beattie, ''The New Yorker Stories'' * Emma Donoghue, ''Room (novel), Room'' * Jennifer Egan, ''A Visit from the Goon Squad'' * Jonathan Franzen, ''Freedom (Franzen novel), Freedom'' * Jennifer Homans, ''Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet'' * Siddhartha Mukherjee, ''The Emperor of All Maladies, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'' * Stacy Schiff, ''Cleopatra: A Life'' * Stephen Sondheim, ''Finishing the Hat'' * William Trevor, ''Selected Stories'' * Isabel Wilkerson, ''The Warmth of Other Suns, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration'' 2011 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 21, 2011. The 10 Best Books were announced November 30, 2011. * Ian Brown (journalist), Ian Brown, ''The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son'' * Amanda Foreman (historian), Amanda Foreman, ''A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War'' * Chad Harbach, ''The Art of Fielding'' * Eleanor Henderson, ''Ten Thousand Saints'' * Christopher Hitchens, ''Arguably, Arguably: Essays'' * Daniel Kahneman, ''Thinking, Fast and Slow'' * Stephen King, ''11/22/63'' * Manning Marable, ''Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'' * Téa Obreht, ''The Tiger's Wife'' * Karen Russell, ''Swamplandia!'' 2012 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27, 2012. The 10 Best Books were announced November 30, 2012. * Katherine Boo, ''Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity'' * Robert Caro, ''The Passage of Power'' *

, ''A Hologram for the King'' * Jim Holt (philosopher), Jim Holt, ''Why Does the World Exist?, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story'' * Hilary Mantel, ''Bring Up the Bodies'' * David Nasaw, ''The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy'' * Kevin Powers, ''The Yellow Birds'' * Andrew Solomon, ''Far from the Tree, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity'' *

, ''NW (novel), NW'' * Chris Ware, ''Building Stories'' 2013 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27, 2013. The 10 Best Books were announced December 4, 2013. * Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ''Americanah'' * Kate Atkinson (writer), Kate Atkinson, ''Life After Life (novel), Life After Life'' * Peter Baker (journalist), Peter Baker, ''Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House'' * Alan S. Blinder, ''After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead'' * Christopher Clark, ''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'' * Sonali Deraniyagala, ''Wave (Deraniyagala book), Wave'' * Sheri Fink, ''Five Days at Memorial, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital'' * Rachel Kushner, ''The Flamethrowers'' * Donna Tartt, ''The Goldfinch (novel), The Goldfinch'' * George Saunders, ''Tenth of December: Stories'' 2014 The 100 Notable Books were announced. The 10 Best Books were announced December 14, 2014. * Eula Biss, ''On Immunity: An Inoculation'' * Roz Chast, ''Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir'' * Anthony Doerr, ''All the Light We Cannot See'' * Lily King, ''Euphoria'' * Phil Klay, ''Redeployment (short story collection), Redeployment'' * Elizabeth Kolbert, ''The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History'' * Hermione Lee, ''Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life'' * Jenny Offill, ''Dept. of Speculation'' * Akhil Sharma, ''Family Life (novel), Family Life'' * Lawrence Wright, ''Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp'' 2015 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27, 2015. The 10 Best Books were announced December 3, 2015. * Paul Beatty, ''The Sellout (novel), The Sellout'' * Sven Beckert, ''Empire of Cotton: A Global History'' * Lucia Berlin, ''A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories'' * Ta-Nehisi Coates, ''Between the World and Me'' * Rachel Cusk, ''Outline (novel), Outline'' * Elena Ferrante, ''Neapolitan Novels#The Story of the Lost Child, The Story of the Lost Child: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: "Maturity, Old Age"'' * Helen Macdonald (writer), Helen Macdonald, ''H Is for Hawk'' * Åsne Seierstad, ''One of Us (Seierstad book), One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway'' * Magda Szabó, ''The Door (novel), The Door'' * Andrea Wulf, ''The Invention of Nature, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World'' 2016 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 23, 2016. The 10 Best Books were announced December 1, 2016. * Sarah Bakewell, ''At the Existentialist Cafe, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails'' * Matthew Desmond, ''Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City'' * Susan Faludi, ''In the Darkroom'' * Stefan Hertmans, ''War and Turpentine'' * Han Kang, ''The Vegetarian'' * Karan Mahajan, ''The Association of Small Bombs'' * Hisham Matar, ''The Return (memoir), The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between'' * Jane Mayer, ''Dark Money (book), Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right'' * Ian McGuire, ''The North Water (novel), The North Water'' *

, ''The Underground Railroad (novel), The Underground Railroad'' 2017 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 22, 2017. The 10 Best Books were announced November 30, 2017. * Naomi Alderman, ''The Power (Alderman novel), The Power'' *

, ''Grant (book), Grant'' * James Forman Jr., ''Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America'' * Caroline Fraser, ''Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder'' * Mohsin Hamid, ''Exit West'' * Min Jin Lee, ''Pachinko (novel), Pachinko'' * Patricia Lockwood, ''Priestdaddy, Priestdaddy: A Memoir'' * Richard Prum, ''The Evolution of Beauty, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us'' * Ali Smith, ''Autumn (Smith novel), Autumn'' * Jesmyn Ward, ''Sing, Unburied, Sing'' 2018 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 18, 2018. The 10 Best Books were announced November 29, 2018. * Shane Bauer, ''American Prison, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment'' * Lisa Brennan-Jobs, ''Small Fry (book), Small Fry'' * David W. Blight, ''Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom'' * Esi Edugyan, ''Washington Black'' * Lisa Halliday, ''Asymmetry (novel), Asymmetry'' * Rebecca Makkai, ''The Great Believers'' * Tommy Orange, ''There There (novel), There There'' * Michael Pollan, ''How to Change Your Mind, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence'' * Leïla Slimani, ''Lullaby (Slimani novel), Lullaby'' * Tara Westover, ''Educated (book), Educated'' 2019 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 25, 2019. The 10 Best Books were announced November 22, 2019. In 2019 for the first time, the 10 Best Books were announced prior to the 100 Notable Books. * Kevin Barry (author), Kevin Barry, ''Night Boat to Tangier'' * Sarah M. Broom, ''The Yellow House (book), The Yellow House'' * Leo Damrosch, ''The Club (book), The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age'' * Ted Chiang, ''Exhalation: Stories'' * Adam Higginbotham, ''Midnight in Chernobyl, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster'' * Patrick Radden Keefe, ''Say Nothing (book), Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland'' * Ben Lerner, ''The Topeka School'' * Valeria Luiselli, ''Lost Children Archive'' * Julia Phillips (author), Julia Phillips, ''Disappearing Earth'' * Rachel Louise Snyder, ''No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us''

2020s

2020 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 20, 2020. The 10 Best Books were announced November 23, 2020. Fiction * Lydia Millet, ''A Children's Bible'' * James McBride (writer), James McBride, ''Deacon King Kong'' * Maggie O'Farrell, ''Hamnet (novel), Hamnet'' * Ayad Akhtar, ''Homeland Elegies'' * Brit Bennett, ''The Vanishing Half'' * Victoria Chang, "Obit (book), Obit" Nonfiction * Robert Kolker, ''Hidden Valley Road'' * Barack Obama, ''A Promised Land'' * James S. Shapiro, James Shapiro, ''Shakespeare in a Divided America'' * Anna Wiener, ''Uncanny Valley (memoir), Uncanny Valley'' *

, ''War: How Conflict Shaped Us'' 2021 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 22, 2021. The 10 Best Books were announced November 30, 2021. Fiction * Imbolo Mbue, ''How Beautiful We Were'' * Katie Kitamura, ''Intimacies'' * Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, ''The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois'' * Patricia Lockwood, ''No One Is Talking About This'' * Benjamín Labatut, ''When We Cease to Understand the World'' Nonfiction * Tove Ditlevsen, ''The Copenhagen Trilogy'' * Clint Smith (writer), Clint Smith, ''How the Word is Passed'' * Andrea Elliott, ''Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City'' * Annette Gordon-Reed, ''On Juneteenth'' * Heather Clark (writer), Heather Clark, ''Red Comet, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath'' 2022 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 22, 2022. The 10 Best Books were announced November 29, 2022. Fiction * Jennifer Egan, ''The Candy House (novel), The Candy House'' * Claire-Louise Bennett, ''Checkout 19'' * Barbara Kingsolver, ''Demon Copperhead'' * Namwali Serpell, ''The Furrows (book), The Furrows'' * Hernan Diaz (writer), Hernan Diaz, ''Trust'' Nonfiction * Ed Yong, ''An Immense World, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us'' * Hua Hsu, ''Stay True (2022 book), Stay True: A Memoir'' * Rachel Aviv, ''Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us'' * Linda Villarosa, ''Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation'' * Fintan O'Toole, ''We Don't Know Ourselves, We Don't Know Ourselves: a Personal History of Modern Ireland'' 2023 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 21, 2023. The 10 Best Books were announced on November 28. Fiction * Paul Murray (author), Paul Murray, ''The Bee Sting'' * Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, ''Chain-Gang All-Stars'' * Maylis de Kerangal, ''Eastbound'' *

, ''The Fraud'' * Daniel Mason, ''North Woods (novel), North Woods'' Nonfiction * Jonathan Rosen, ''The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions'' * Kerry Howley, ''Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs'' * John Vaillant, ''Fire Weather, Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World'' * Ilyon Woo, ''Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife'' * Patricia Evangelista, ''Some People Need Killing'' 2024 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 26, 2024. The 10 Best Books were announced on December 3. Fiction * Miranda July, ''All Fours (novel), All Fours'' * Dolly Alderton, ''Good Material'' * Percival Everett, ''James (novel), James'' * Kaveh Akbar, ''Martyr!'' * Álvaro Enrigue, ''You Dreamed of Empires'' Nonfiction * József Debreczeni, ''Cold Crematorium, Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz'' * Jonathan Blitzer, ''Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis'' * Lucy Sante, ''I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition'' * Max Boot, ''Reagan: His Life and Legend'' * Hampton Sides, ''The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook''

Studies

In 2010, Stanford professors Alan Sorenson and Jonah Berger published a study examining the effect on book sales from positive or negative reviews in the ''New York Times Book Review''.Alan Sorenson, Jonah Berger
"Positive Effects of Negative Publicity: When Negative Reviews Increase Sales"
''Marketing Science (journal), Marketing Science'', Vol. 29, No. 5, September–October 2010, pp. 815–827. They found all books benefited from positive reviews, while only popular or well-known authors were negatively impacted by negative reviews. Lesser-known authors benefited from negative reviews (i.e., bad publicity boosted book sales).Jenny Thai
"Bad publicity may boost book sales"
the ''Stanford Daily'', February 23, 2011. A 2012 study by writer Roxane Gay found that 90% of ''New York Times'' book reviews published in 2011 were on books by white authors, whereas 2010 United States census found that only 72% of the population was White, defined as including Hispanic and Latino Americans who identify as white.

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1983 ''Legion'' court case

Best Books of the Year and Notable Books

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