The New York Times Notable Books of the Year

Given by The New York Times Book Review

Other Names: The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of Noteworthy Titles, The New York Times Book Review's Books for Christmas (1933-1941), The New York Times Book Review's Christmas Checklist (1947-1948), The New York Times Book Review's A Christmas Guide for Readers (1949 - 1968), The New York Times Book Review's Other Outstanding Books of the Year (1969), The New York Times Book Review's A Selected List From Books of the Year (1970), The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of the Best Books of the Year (1978-1979), A New York Times Notable Book
197 Works 2,274,219 Books 81,853 Reviews ½ 3.9
The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


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Categories:
All, American Scene (36), Art (13), Art & Architecture (2), Art, Music & Popular Culture (6), Arts, Drama, Music (8), Autobiography & Biography (75), Belles Lettres (3), Biography (13), Children's Books (8), Crime (1), Current Affairs & Social Comment (10), Education (4), Essays & Criticism (17), Essays and Belles-Lettres (1), Essays, Letters & Criticism (5), Fiction (336), Fiction & Poetry (402), Fiction - Comics/Graphics (2), Fiction - Poetry (1), Fiction - Stories (16), Fiction - Thrillers (5), Fiction/Poetry (53), History (5), Humor (2), Music (1), Nonfiction (602), Nonfiction - Biography (2), Nonfiction - Biography - Current Affairs (1), Nonfiction - Biography - History (4), Nonfiction - Biography - Sports (2), Nonfiction - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Current Affairs (8), Nonfiction - Essays (4), Nonfiction - Foreign Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History (28), Nonfiction - History - Current Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History - Memoir (1), Nonfiction - History - Sports (1), Nonfiction - Memoir (55), Nonfiction - Memoir - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Science (10), Nonfiction - Science - History (1), Nonfiction - Sociology (1), Nonfiction - Sociology - Current Affairs (1), Poetry (10), Politics (1), Religion (18), Science & Social Science (1), Science Fiction (1), Thriller (1), Travel, Adventure (2), No Category (197)
WorkYear
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
2018
The Truth and Other Lies: A Novel by Sascha Arango
2015
Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott
2015
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
2015
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
2015
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
2015
Outline by Rachel Cusk
2015
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
2015
The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four by Elena Ferrante
2015
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
2015
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
2015
The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam
2015
From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 by Jorie Graham
2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
2015
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
2015
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
2015
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
2015
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
2015
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
2015
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
2015
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
2015
My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
2015
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
2015
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
2015
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
2015
Finale by Thomas Mallon
2015
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra
2015
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
2015
Here by Richard McGuire
2015
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
2015
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
2015
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
2015
The Whites by Richard Price
2015
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
2015
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
2015
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
2015
The Door by Magda Szabó
2015
Dragonfish by Vu Tran
2015
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2015
Mislaid by Nell Zink
2015
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
2014
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
2014
American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen
2014
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
2014
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
2014
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2014
Euphoria by Lily King
2014
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary Mantel
2014
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
2014
Want Not by Jonathan Miles
2014
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
2014
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
2014
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
2014
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
2014
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
2014
The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
2014
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
2014
The Cold Song by Linn Ullmann
2014
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
2014
The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner
2013
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
2011
The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George by Denise Gigante
2011
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
2011
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
2006
In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories by Alice Mattison
2005
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2005
Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames
2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
2004
Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter
2004
Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard
2003
Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn
2003
Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times by Brooke Allen
2003
Best Friends by Thomas Berger
2003
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
2003
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
2003
Gilgamesh by Joan London
2003
Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi
2002
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
2002
American Scoundrel by Thomas Keneally
2002
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital by Alex Beam
2002
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
2002
Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass by Richard D. Smith
2001
The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll
2001
In a Strange City by Laura Lippman
2001
Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter
2001
Legacy of the Dead by Charles Todd
2000
Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
2000
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
2000
Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey
2000
Sam the Cat: and Other Stories by Matthew Klam
2000
L'ignorance by Milan Kundera
2000
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
2000
Burt Lancaster by Kate Buford
2000
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
2000
Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter
2000
Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies
2000
Afterimage by Helen Humphreys
2000
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
2000
Starfish by Peter Watts
1999
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
1999
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
1999
The Things We Do to Make It Home: A Novel by Beverly Gologorsky
1999
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
1998
Mary, Mary by Julie Parsons
1998
Fever Season by Barbara Hambly
1998
Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
1998
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
1998
Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood by Julia Scully
1998
Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle
1998
Bringing Out the Dead: A Novel by Joe Connelly
1998
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz
1998
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
1998
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti
1998
Cordelia Underwood: Or, The Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League by Van Reid
1998
No Lease on Life: A Novel by Lynne Tillman
1998
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
1998
Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver
1997
Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
1997
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
1997
Girls by Frederick Busch
1997
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution by Benson Bobrick
1997
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel
1997
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear
1997
Le Testament Français by Andreï Makine
1997
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Frans B. M. de Waal
1996
The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life by Natalie Angier
1995
The Lion's Whiskers: An Ethiopian Folktale by Nancy Raines Day
1995
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
1995
The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
1995
The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind by J. Allan Hobson
1994
Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers by Adam Nossiter
1994
Beyond the Veil of Stars by Robert Reed
1994
Merry Men by Carolyn Chute
1994
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
1994
Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon
1994
So Far from God by Ana Castillo
1993
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon M. Lederman
1993
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
1993
The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 4) by Richard Layman
1993
Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law by Harry N. MacLean
1993
The Loop by Joe Coomer
1992
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1992
Nativism and Slavery : The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s by Tyler G. Anbinder
1992
Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
1992
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
1992
Beyond the Curve by Kōbō Abe
1991
Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
1991
The Killing of the Saints by Alex Abella
1991
Blood by Janice Galloway
1991
Fima by Amos Oz
1991
To All Appearances a Lady by Marilyn Bowering
1989
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene by Natalie Angier
1988
Chuck Berry: The Autobiography by Chuck Berry
1987
Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life by Jimmy Carter
1987
Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal
1987
Early Reagan: The Rise to Power by Anne Edwards
1987
Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir by Richard Gilman
1987
A Client Called Noah: A Family Journey Continued by Josh Greenfeld
1987
Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century by Sidney Hook
1987
The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
1987
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
1987
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School by Melvin Konner
1987
The Children at Santa Clara by Elizabeth Marek
1987
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage by Pauli Murray
1987
Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill by Thomas P. O'Neill
1987
The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton
1987
Conspiracy of Silence by Barrie Penrose
1987
Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman by S. J. Perelman
1987
George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945-1959 by Forrest C. Pogue
1987
Memoirs of A Fortunate Jew by Dan Vittorio Segre
1987
Orphans: Real and Imaginary by Eileen Simpson
1987
Private Domain: An Autobiography by Paul Taylor
1987
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home by Garry Wills
1987
Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
1986
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
1984
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
1981
The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
1981
The Fight by Norman Mailer
1975
Zeek Silver Moon by Amy Ehrlich
1972
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs by Jacob Grimm
Illus: Nancy Ekholm Burkert
1972
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
1972
George and Martha by James Marshall
1972
The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel
1972
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1972
Pool by Lee Jihyeon
1969
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