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

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York City.

Overview

The ''New York Times'' has published a book review section since 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 Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using POD (pri ...

are generally not reviewed as a matter of policy. Books not selected for review are stored in a "discard room" and then sold. , Barnes & Noble 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 is an American literary critic based in New York, who publishes primarily in American venues. She is a former senior editor and columnist at ''The New York Times Book Review'', and was one of the team of book critics at '' The New Y ...

a staff critic and former editor at the ''Book Review'', wrote a review of the NYTBR titled "Reviewing the Book Review". Pamela Paul was editor from 2013 to 2022, succeeding Sam Tanenhaus, who was editor from 2004 to 2013.

Podcast

"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.

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 which contains fiction and

non-fiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with b ...

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, '' Birds of America'' * Russell Banks, ''

Cloudsplitter ''Cloudsplitter'' is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown. The novel is narrated as a retrospective by John Brown's son, Owen Brown, from his hermitage in the San Gabriel Mountains of Califor ...

'' * 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, ''Preston Falls'' * Ron Chernow, '' 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, '' Disgrace'' *

Antonio Damasio Antonio Damasio ( pt, António Damásio) is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California ...

, ''The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness'' * John Keegan, ''The First World War'' * Michael Frayn, '' Headlong'' * Jean Strouse, ''Morgan: American Financier'' *

Inga Clendinnen Inga Clendinnen, (; 17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civilisation an ...

, ''Reading the Holocaust'' *

Judith Thurman Judith Thurman (b. 1946) is an American writer, biographer, and critic. She is the recipient of the 1983 National Book Award for nonfiction for her biography ''Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller''. Her book ''Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of ...

, ''Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette'' * Roddy Doyle, ''

A Star Called Henry ''A Star Called Henry'' (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 1 of '' The Last Roundup'' series. The second installment of the series, '' Oh, Play That Thing'', was published in 2004. The third, '' The Dead Republic'', was ...

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 ''Being Dead'' is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999. Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph and Celice, on a day trip to the dunes where th ...

'' * Unknown, ''

Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. ...

'' (translation by

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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

Gertrude and Claudius ''Gertrude and Claudius'' is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in medieval Denmark, as depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twe ...

'' *

Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. Eggers is also the founder of ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', a lite ...

, '' A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story'' *

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

, '' 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'' 2001 The Notable Books were announced December 2, 2001. The 9 Editor's Choice books were announced December 2, 2001. *

W.G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the g ...

, '' Austerlitz'' * Paula Fox, ''Borrowed Finery: A Memoir'' *

Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel ''The Corrections'', a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pri ...

, '' The Corrections'' * Alice Munro, ''

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage ''Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage'' is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001. In 2006, the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, ''Away from Her'', direc ...

'' *

Colson Whitehead Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work '' The Intuitionist''; '' The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Awar ...

, ''

John Henry Days ''John Henry Days'' is a 2001 novel by American author Colson Whitehead. This is his second full-length work. Plot summary Building the railways that made America, John Henry died with a hammer in his hand moments after competing against a ste ...

'' * Louis Menand, '' The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'' * Peter Carey, '' True History of the Kelly Gang'' * Oliver Sacks, '' 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 Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer who also publishes fiction under the name MJ Carter.Jake Kerridge ''The Telegraph'', 23 April 2015. Education Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter Col ...

, ''Anthony Blunt: His Lives'' *

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan, (born 21 June 1948) is an English 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 th ...

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

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...

'' * Margaret MacMillan, '' 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 Caroline Sarah J. Alexander (born 3 March 1968) is a cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow-in-Furness. She was a swimmer as a child and did not cycle until she was 20. She first rode a bike in competition in a triathlon: ...

, ''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, '' Living to Tell the Tale'' *

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. She is best known for her 2003 non-fiction book '' Random Family''. She wa ...

, ''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. * Ron Chernow, '' Alexander Hamilton'' *

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...

, '' Chronicles: Volume One'' *

David Hackett Fischer David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have covered topics ranging from large macroeconomic and cultural trends ('' Albion's Seed,'' '' The Great Wave ...

, '' Washington's Crossing'' * Stephen Greenblatt, '' Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'' *

Ha Jin Jin Xuefei (; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (). ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life Ha Jin was born i ...

, ''

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'' * Alice Munro, ''

Runaway Runaway, Runaways or Run Away may refer to: Engineering * Runaway reaction, a chemical reaction releasing more heat than what can be removed and becoming uncontrollable * Thermal runaway, self-increase of the reaction rate of an exothermic proc ...

'' * Orhan Pamuk, ''

Snow Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughou ...

'' * Marilynne Robinson, ''

Gilead Gilead or Gilad (; he, גִּלְעָד ''Gīləʿāḏ'', ar, جلعاد, Ǧalʻād, Jalaad) is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan.''Easton's Bible Dictionary'Galeed''/ref> ...

'' *

, '' The Plot Against America'' *

Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. ''The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlist ...

, '' 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 ''The Year of Magical Thinking'' (2005), by Joan Didion (1934–2021), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003). Published by Knopf in October 2005, ''The Year of Magical Thinking'' was ...

'' * Mary Gaitskill, ''Veronica'' *

Jonathan Harr Jonathan Harr is an American writer, best known for the nonfiction work'' A Civil Action''. Early life and education Jonathan Ensor Harr was born 13 September 1948, in Beloit, Wisconsin, the son of John Ensor Harr (1 August 1926 - 14 November 2004 ...

, ''The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'' * Tony Judt, '' Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945'' *

, ''

Saturday Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. No later than the 2nd century, the Romans named Saturday ("Saturn's Day") for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The da ...

'' *

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his ...

, '' Kafka on the Shore'' * George Packer, '' The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq'' *

Curtis Sittenfeld Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, ''You Think it, I’ll Say It'' (2018), as well as six novels: ''Prep'' (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep sch ...

, ''Prep'' * Zadie Smith, ''

On Beauty ''On Beauty'' is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on ''Howards End'' by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States, addresses ethnic and cultural diff ...

'' * 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 ''The Lay of the Land'' is a 2006 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel is the third in what is now a four-part series, preceded by the novels '' The Sportswriter'' (1986) and ''Independence Day'' (1995); and followed by ''Let Me Be Fr ...

'' * Amy Hempel, '' The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel'' *

Claire Messud Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel '' The Emperor's Children'' (2006). Early life Born in Greenwich, Connecticut,van Gelder, Lawrence. "Foo ...

, ''The Emperor's Children'' *

Marisha Pessl Marisha Pessl (born October 26, 1977) is an American writer known for her novels '' Special Topics in Calamity Physics'', ''Night Film'', and ''Neverworld Wake''. Early life Pessl was born in Clarkston, Michigan, to Klaus, an Austrian engineer f ...

, '' Special Topics in Calamity Physics'' * Nathaniel Philbrick, '' Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War'' * Michael Pollan, '' The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'' * Gary Shteyngart, ''

Absurdistan Absurdistan is a term sometimes used to satirically describe a country in which absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government. The expression was originally used by Eastern bloc dissidents to refer to parts (or all) o ...

'' * Rory Stewart, ''

The Places In Between ''The Places in Between'' is a travel narrative by Rory Stewart, a British writer and former diplomat, and future member of Parliament, detailing his solo walk across north-central Afghanistan in 2002. Synopsis Stewart arrives in Afghanistan ...

'' *

Danielle Trussoni Danielle Anne Trussoni is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and ''Sunday Times'' Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and writes the "Dark Matters" column for the ''New York Times Book Review''. She cr ...

, ''Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir'' * Lawrence Wright, '' 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 Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' (''The Savage Detectives'' ...

, ''

The Savage Detectives ''The Savage Detectives'' ( Spanish: ''Los Detectives Salvajes'') is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño published in 1998. Natasha Wimmer's English translation was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. The novel tells the ...

'' *

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at ''The Washington Post'', where he has worked since 1994. Life He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, w ...

, '' 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 Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, '' Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most successful novel, ''Tree of Smoke'' (2007) ...

, '' Tree of Smoke: A Novel'' *

Mildred Armstrong Kalish Mildred may refer to: People * Mildred (name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) * Saint Mildrith, 8th-century Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet * Milred (died 774), Anglo-Saxon prelate, Bishop of Worcester * Henry M ...

, ''Little Heathens'' * Per Petterson, '' Out Stealing Horses'' * Alex Ross, '' The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century'' *

Michael Thomas Michael or Mike Thomas may refer to: Entertainment * Michael M. Thomas (born 1936), American novelist of financial thrillers * Michael Tilson Thomas (born 1944), American conductor, pianist, and composer * Michael Thomas (actor) (1952–2019), B ...

, '' Man Gone Down: A Novel'' *

Jeffrey Toobin Jeffrey Ross Toobin (; born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, blogger, and longtime legal analyst for CNN. He left CNN on September 4, 2022. During the Iran–Contra affair, Toobin served as an associate counsel on this investigation ...

, '' 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 Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with ''The Sense of an Ending'', having been shortlisted three times previously with '' Flaubert's Parrot'', '' England, England'', and ''Art ...

, ''Nothing to Be Frightened Of'' *

, ''2666'' * Drew Gilpin Faust, ''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War'' * Dexter Filkins, ''

The Forever War ''The Forever War'' (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. It won the Nebul ...

'' * Patrick French, '' The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul'' * Jhumpa Lahiri, '' Unaccustomed Earth'' *

Jane Mayer Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1995. She has written for the publication about money in politics; government prosecution of whistleblowers; the Uni ...

, '' 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 Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, '' The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' S ...

, ''

A Mercy ''A Mercy'' is Toni Morrison's ninth novel. It was published in 2008. Set in colonial America in the late 17th century, it is the story of a European farmer, his purchased wife, and his growing household of indentured or enslaved white, Native Am ...

'' * Joseph O'Neill, '' 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: The Bankers Who Broke the World'' *

David Finkel David Louis Finkel (born October 28, 1955) is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 as a staff writer at ''The Washington Post''. As of January 2017, he was national enterprise editor at the ''Post''. He has also worked for the ...

, ''

The Good Soldiers ''The Good Soldiers'' (2009) is a non-fiction book about the 2007 troop surge in Iraq written by David Finkel, chronicling the deployment of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed ...

'' * Richard Holmes, '' The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science'' * Mary Karr, ''Lit: A Memoir'' * Jonathan Lethem, ''

Chronic City ''Chronic City'' (2009) is a novel by American author Jonathan Lethem. Summary Lethem began work on ''Chronic City'' in early 2007, and has said that the novel is "set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it’s strongly influenced by Saul B ...

'' *

Maile Meloy Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American fiction writer. Early life and education Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvi ...

, ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It'' * Lorrie Moore, ''

A Gate at the Stairs ''A Gate at the Stairs'' is a novel by American fiction writer Lorrie Moore. It was published by Random House in 2009. The novel won Amazon.com's "best of the month" designation and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize ...

'' *

Carol Sklenicka Carol Sklenicka is an American biographer, literary scholar, and essayist best known as the author of ''Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life'', which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by the N ew York Times Book Review in 2009. It remains the ...

, ''Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life'' *

Kate Walbert Kate Walbert (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in New York City. Her novel, ''Our Kind'', was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. Her novel ''A Short History of Women'', a ''New York Ti ...

, ''A Short History of Women'' * Jeannette Walls, ''

Half Broke Horses ''Half Broke Horses'' is a 2009 novel by the American writer Jeannette Walls detailing the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. The book was published by Simon and Schuster. Summary ''Half Broke Horses'' is the story of Lily Casey Smith's ...

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'' * Jennifer Egan, '' A Visit from the Goon Squad'' *

, '' Freedom'' * Jennifer Homans, ''Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet'' *

Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, '' The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'', that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 P ...

, '' The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'' *

Stacy Schiff Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Vera Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator ...

, ''Cleopatra: A Life'' *

Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March 22, 1930November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, Sondheim is credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with sho ...

, '' Finishing the Hat'' * William Trevor, ''Selected Stories'' * Isabel Wilkerson, '' 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, ''The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son'' * Amanda Foreman, ''A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War'' *

Chad Harbach Chad Harbach (born 1975) is an American writer. An editor at the journal '' n + 1'', he is the author of the 2011 novel '' The Art of Fielding''. Early life and education Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his ...

, ''

The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated f ...

'' * Eleanor Henderson, ''Ten Thousand Saints'' * Christopher Hitchens, '' 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 Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, '' Swamplandia!'', was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2009 the National Book Foundation named Russell a 5 under 35 honor ...

, '' Swamplandia!'' 2012 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27, 2012. The 10 Best Books were announced November 30, 2012. *

Katherine Boo Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the MacArthur "genius" award (2002) and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), and her wo ...

, '' Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity'' *

Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote '' The Power ...

, '' The Passage of Power'' *

, ''

A Hologram for the King ''A Hologram for the King'' is a 2012 American novel written by Dave Eggers. In October 2012, the novel was announced as a finalist for the National Book Award. It was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 2016 and starring Tom Hanks ...

'' * Jim Holt, '' Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story'' *

Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( ; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, '' Every Day Is Mother's Day'', was relea ...

, ''

Bring Up the Bodies ''Bring Up the Bodies'' is an historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning ''Wolf Hall;'' and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII. It won the ...

'' * David Nasaw, ''The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy'' * Kevin Powers, '' The Yellow Birds'' *

Andrew Solomon Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is a writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London. He has written for ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Artforum'', ''Travel and Leisure'', and other publicat ...

, '' Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity'' * Zadie Smith, '' NW'' * Chris Ware, ''

Building Stories ''Building Stories'' is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware. The unconventional work is made up of fourteen printed works—cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets and flip books—packaged in a boxed set. The work took a d ...

'' 2013 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27, 2013. The 10 Best Books were announced December 4, 2013. * Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ''

Americanah ''Americanah'' is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. ''Americanah'' tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates t ...

'' * Kate Atkinson, '' Life After Life'' * 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 Sir Christopher Munro Clark (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In 2015, he was knighted for his servic ...

, ''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'' * Sonali Deraniyagala, '' Wave'' *

Sheri Fink Sheri Fink is an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science. She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhaus ...

, '' Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital'' * Rachel Kushner, ''

The Flamethrowers ''The Flamethrowers'' is a 2013 novel by American author Rachel Kushner. The book was released on April 2, 2013 through Scribner. ''The Flamethrowers'' follows a female artist in the 1970s. While writing the book, Kushner drew on personal expe ...

'' *

Donna Tartt Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist. Early life Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, the elder of two daughters. She was raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her fa ...

, '' 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?: A Memoir'' *

Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel '' All the Light We Cannot See'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life and education Rai ...

, ''

All the Light We Cannot See ''All the Light We Cannot See'' is a 2014 war novel that was written by American author Anthony Doerr. The novel is set during World War II and centers around the characters Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her unc ...

'' * Lily King, ''Euphoria'' *

Phil Klay Phil Klay (; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, '' Redeployment''. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under ...

, ''

Redeployment Military deployment is the movement of armed forces and their logistical support infrastructure around the world. Notable deployments and deployment forces include: * Egyptian Rapid deployment forces * Pakistan Armed Forces deployments * Deployme ...

'' *

Elizabeth Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book '' The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History'', and as an observer and commentator ...

, '' The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History'' * Hermione Lee, ''Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life'' * Jenny Offill, ''Dept. of Speculation'' * Akhil Sharma, '' 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'' * 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 ''Between the World and Me'' is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated wi ...

'' * Rachel Cusk, '' Outline'' * Elena Ferrante, '' The Story of the Lost Child: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: “Maturity, Old Age”'' * Helen Macdonald, ''

H Is for Hawk ''H is for Hawk'' is a 2014 memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award, among other honours. Content ''H is for Hawk'' tells Macdonald's story of the year she spent training a no ...

'' *

Åsne Seierstad Åsne Seierstad (born 10 February 1970) is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006. (in Norwegian) Pe ...

, '' One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway'' * Magda Szabó, '' The Door'' *

Andrea Wulf Andrea Wulf (born 1972) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews. Biography Wulf was born in New Delhi, India, a child of German developmental aid workers, and spent the first five ...

, '' 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 Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) is a British author and professor. She currently lives in London. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction. Early life Bakewell was born in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England, where ...

, '' At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails'' * Matthew Desmond, '' Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City'' *

Susan Faludi Susan Charlotte Faludi (; born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitze ...

, '' In the Darkroom'' *

Stefan Hertmans Stefan Hertmans (born 1951 in Ghent, Belgium) is a Flemish Belgian writer. He was head of a study centre at University College Ghent and affiliated researcher of the Ghent University. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2002 for the novel ...

, ''

War and Turpentine ''War and Turpentine'' (original title in Dutch: ''Oorlog en Terpentijn'') is a 2013 novel by Belgian author Stefan Hertmans, originally published by De Bezige Bij. It is a novel about his grandfather, the artist Urbain Martien, during World War ...

'' * Han Kang, ''

The Vegetarian ''The Vegetarian'' () is a South Korean three-part novel written by Han Kang and first published in 2007. Based on Han's 1997 short story "The Fruit of My Woman", ''The Vegetarian'' is set in modern-day Seoul and tells the story of Yeong-hye, a ...

'' *

Karan Mahajan Karan Mahajan (born April 24, 1984) is an Indian-American novelist, essayist, and critic. His second novel, '' The Association of Small Bombs,'' was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. He has contributed writing to '' The Be ...

, ''

The Association of Small Bombs ''The Association of Small Bombs'' is a 2016 novel by Indian-American author and novelist Karan Mahajan. The novel is Mahajan's second, after 2012's ''Family Planning'', and was first published in 2016 by Viking Press. The novel was named a finali ...

'' * Hisham Matar, '' The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between'' *

, '' Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right'' *

Ian McGuire Ian McGuire (born 1964) is an English author and academic. In 1996 he joined the University of Manchester as a lecturer in American Literature and later lectured in Creative Writing. He was co-director of the Centre for New Writing and is curren ...

, '' The North Water'' *

, '' 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'' * Ron Chernow, '' Grant'' * James Forman Jr., '' Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America'' *

Caroline Fraser Caroline Fraser is an American writer. She won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, for '' Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder'', a biograph ...

, '' Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder'' * Mohsin Hamid, '' Exit West'' * Min Jin Lee, '' Pachinko'' *

Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood (born 27 April 1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her 2021 debut novel, '' No One Is Talking About This,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her 2017 memoir '' Priestdaddy'' won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. H ...

, '' Priestdaddy: A Memoir'' * Richard Prum, '' The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us'' *

Ali Smith Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting". Early life and education Smith was born in Inverness on 24 Au ...

, '' Autumn'' *

Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel ...

, ''

Sing, Unburied, Sing ''Sing, Unburied, Sing'' is the third novel by the American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Scribner in 2017. It focuses on a family in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The novel received overwhelmingly positive reviews, and ...

'' 2018 The 100 Notable Books were announced November 18, 2018. The 10 Best Books were announced November 29, 2018. *

Shane Bauer Shane Bauer is an American journalist, best known for his undercover reporting for ''Mother Jones'' magazine. He has won several awards including the Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the National Magazine Award for Best ...

, '' American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment'' *

Lisa Brennan-Jobs Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs ( Brennan; born May 17, 1978) is an American writer. She is the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. Jobs initially denied paternity for several years, which led to a legal case and various medi ...

, '' Small Fry'' * David W. Blight, '' Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom'' * Esi Edugyan, '' Washington Black'' *

Lisa Halliday Lisa Halliday (born July 12, 1976) is an American author and novelist. She is most known for her novel ''Asymmetry'', for which she received a Whiting Award in 2017. Life Halliday was born and grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, in a working- ...

, '' Asymmetry'' * Rebecca Makkai, ''

The Great Believers ''The Great Believers'' is a historical fiction novel by Rebecca Makkai, published June 4, 2018 by Penguin Books. The book is a Carnegie Medal winner, National Book Award finalist, Stonewall Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. Re ...

'' * Tommy Orange, ''

There There "There There" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released as the lead single from their sixth album, ''Hail to the Thief'' (2003), on 26 May 2003. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Portug ...

'' * Michael Pollan, '' How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence'' *

Leïla Slimani Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the ''Organisation internationale de la Franc ...

, '' Lullaby'' * Tara Westover, '' 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, '' Night Boat to Tangier'' * Sarah M. Broom, '' The Yellow House'' * Leo Damrosch, ''The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age'' *

Ted Chiang Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of th ...

, '' Exhalation: Stories'' *

Adam Higginbotham Adam Higginbotham (born 1968 in Somerset) is a British journalist who is the former U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and former editor-in-chief of ''The Face''. He has also served as a contributing writer for'' The New York ...

, '' Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster'' *

Patrick Radden Keefe Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) is an American writer and investigative journalist. He is the author of five books—''Chatter,'' ''The Snakehead,'' '' Say Nothing,'' ''Empire of Pain,'' and ''Rogues''—and has written extensively for many publ ...

, '' Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland'' * Ben Lerner, ''

The Topeka School ''The Topeka School'' is a 2019 novel by the American novelist and poet Ben Lerner about a high school debate champion from Topeka, Kansas in the 1990s. The book is considered both a ''bildungsroman'' and a work of autofiction, as the narrative ...

'' * Valeria Luiselli, '' Lost Children Archive'' * 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, ''

Deacon King Kong James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel ''The Good Lord Bird''. Early life McBride's father, Rev. Andrew D. McBride (August 8, 1911 ...

'' * Maggie O'Farrell, '' Hamnet'' * Ayad Akhtar, ''

Homeland Elegies ''Homeland Elegies'' is a novel by author Ayad Akhtar. Writing and background The book is fiction, though written to resemble a memoir. It includes some autobiographical elements; the protagonist shares the name, background, and career of the aut ...

'' *

Brit Bennett Brit Bennett is an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel ''The Mothers'' (2016) was a ''New York Times'' best-seller. Her second novel, '' The Vanishing Half'' (2020), was also a ''New York Times'' best-seller and it was chosen as ...

, ''

The Vanishing Half ''The Vanishing Half'' is a historical fiction novel by American author Brit Bennett. It is her second novel and was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. The novel debuted at number one on ''The New York Times'' fiction best-seller list. HBO a ...

'' *

Victoria Chang Victoria Chang is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic. Life Victoria Chang was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the suburb of West Bloomfield. Her parents were immigrants from Taiwan. She graduated from the University of Michig ...

, " Obit" Nonfiction * Robert Kolker, '' Hidden Valley Road'' *

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...

, '' A Promised Land'' * James Shapiro, ''Shakespeare in a Divided America'' *

Anna Wiener Anna Wiener is an American writer, best known for her 2020 memoir ''Uncanny Valley''. Wiener currently writes for ''The New Yorker'' as a tech correspondent. Life Wiener grew up in Brooklyn and attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She ...

, '' Uncanny Valley'' * Margaret MacMillan, ''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 Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Consortium. Early life and education Katie Kitamura was born in Sacramento, California in 1979 to a family of Japanes ...

, ''

Intimacies ''Intimacies'' is the fourth novel by Katie Kitamura, published on July 20, 2021. Plot An unnamed woman leaves New York City, where her father recently died, and moves to The Hague, Netherlands to work as an interpreter at the Internati ...

'' * Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, '' The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois'' *

, ''

No One Is Talking About This ''No One Is Talking About This'' is the debut novel by American poet Patricia Lockwood, published in 2021. It was a finalist for the 2021 Booker Prize, was one of the '' New York Times 10 best books of 2021, and won the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. ...

'' * Benjamín Labatut, ''When We Cease to Understand the World'' Nonfiction * Tove Ditlevsen, '' The Copenhagen Trilogy'' * Clint Smith, ''How the Word is Passed'' *

Andrea Elliott Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and a staff writer for ''The New York Times''. She is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in both Journalism (2007) and Letters (2022). She received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a ser ...

, ''Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City'' *

Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958) is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts & Sciences. She ...

, ''On Juneteenth'' * Heather Clark, '' 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'' *

Claire-Louise Bennett Claire-Louise Bennett is a British writer, living in Galway in Ireland. She has written '' Pond'' (2015), which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; and ''Checkout 19'' (2021), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Biography Benn ...

, '' Checkout 19'' * Barbara Kingsolver, ''

Demon Copperhead ''Demon Copperhead'' is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Demon Copperhead is a nickname for the narrator, Damon. The novel borrows its narrative structure from the Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – ...

'' * Namwali Serpell, ''The Furrows'' * Hernan Diaz, ''Trust'' Nonfiction * Ed Yong, '' An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us'' *

Hua Hsu Hua Hsu (born 1977) is an American writer and academic, based in New York City. He is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. His work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as ...

, ''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: a Personal History of Modern Ireland''

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"
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'', Vol. 29, No. 5, September–October 2010, pp. 815–827. They found all books benefited from positive reviews, while popular or well-known authors were negatively impacted by negative reviews. Lesser-known authors benefited from negative reviews; in other words, bad publicity actually boosted book sales.Jenny Thai
"Bad publicity may boost book sales"
the '' Stanford Daily'', February 23, 2011. A study published in 2012, by university professor and author Roxane Gay, found that 90 percent of the ''New York Times'' book reviews published in 2011 were of books by white authors. Gay said, "The numbers reflect the overall trend in publishing where the majority of books published are written by white writers." At the time of the report, the racial makeup of the United States was 72 percent white, according to the 2010 census (it includes

Hispanic The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad. The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties for ...

and Latino Americans who identify as white).

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