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

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.

1983 ''Legion'' court case

In 1983, William Peter Blatty 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 the ''New York Times best-seller list'' is editorial in content, and is not an objective compilation of information. The court ruled in favor of ''The New York Times.''

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

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and non-fiction 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 Californi ...

'' * 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 Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the Univers ...

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

Jean Strouse Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Strouse was an editorial assistant at ''The New York Review of ...

, ''Morgan: American Financier'' * Inga Clendinnen, ''Reading the Holocaust'' * Judith Thurman, ''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 pu ...

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. The ...

'' (translation by Seamus Heaney) * 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 ...

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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, '' 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, ''

White Teeth ''White Teeth'' is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. 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 on Britain' ...

'' 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 ...

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Austerlitz Austerlitz may refer to: History * Battle of Austerlitz, an 1805 victory by the French Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte Places * Austerlitz, German name for Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic, which gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz an ...

'' * Paula Fox, ''Borrowed Finery: A Memoir'' * Jonathan Franzen, '' The Corrections'' * Alice Munro, '' Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage'' * Colson Whitehead, ''

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 stea ...

'' * 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, '' Atonement'' * Lorna Sage, '' Bad Blood'' * Jeffrey Eugenides, '' Middlesex'' * 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 Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the ...

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Drop City Drop City was a counterculture artists' community that formed near the town of Trinidad in southern Colorado in 1960. Abandoned by 1979, Drop City became known as the first rural "hippie commune". Establishment In 1960, the four original foun ...

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Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was publishe ...

, ''

The Fortress of Solitude The Fortress of Solitude is a fictional fortress appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman. It is the place where Superman first learned about his true identity, heritage, and purpose on Eart ...

'' * William Taubman, '' Khrushchev: The Man and His Era'' * Edward P. Jones, '' The Known World'' * Gabriel García Márquez, ''

Living to Tell the Tale ''Living to Tell the Tale'' (original Spanish language title: ''Vivir para contarla'') is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edit ...

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

'' * Bob Dylan, '' 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 Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general edit ...

, '' 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 in L ...

, '' War Trash'' * 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 proce ...

'' * Orhan Pamuk, '' Snow'' * Marilynne Robinson, '' Gilead'' * Philip Roth, ''

The Plot Against America ''The Plot Against America'' is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the R ...

'' * Colm Tóibín, '' 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'' wa ...

'' * 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'' * Ian McEwan, '' Saturday'' * Haruki Murakami, '' 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 dif ...

'' * 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 Nathaniel Philbrick (born June 11, 1956) is an American author of history, winner of the National Book Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His maritime history, '' In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,'' which tells ...

, '' 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'' *

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 ...

, ''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, ''

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 st ...

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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 Dame Linda Jane Colley, (born 13 September 1949 in Chester, England) is an expert on British, imperial and global history from 1700. She is Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a long-term fellow in history a ...

, ''The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History'' * Joshua Ferris, '' Then We Came to the End'' * Denis Johnson, '' 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 ''Out Stealing Horses'' ( no, Ut og stjæle hester) is a 2003 Norwegian novel by Per Petterson. It was translated into English in 2005 by Anne Born, published in the UK that year, and in the US in 2007. Among other awards it won the 2007 Dublin I ...

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Alex Ross Nelson Alexander Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist known primarily for his painted interiors, covers, and design work. He first became known with the 1994 miniseries ''Marvels'', on which he collaborated wi ...

, '' 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), Bri ...

, '' Man Gone Down: A Novel'' * Jeffrey Toobin, '' 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 ''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 Nebu ...

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Patrick French Patrick French (born 1966) is a British writer, historian and academician. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature, and received a PhD in South Asian Studies. He was appointed as the inau ...

, '' 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'' * Steven Millhauser, ''Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories'' * Toni Morrison, ''

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, ''

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

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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 Bell ...

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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, Irvin ...

, ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It'' * Lorrie Moore, '' A Gate at the Stairs'' * Carol Sklenicka, ''Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life'' * Kate Walbert, ''A Short History of Women'' *

Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of ''The Glass Castle'', a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had b ...

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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 & Schuster, Simon and Schuster. Summary ''Half Broke Horses'' is the story of ...

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'' * Jonathan Franzen, ''

Freedom Freedom is understood as either having the ability to act or change without constraint or to possess the power and resources to fulfill one's purposes unhindered. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving on ...

'' * Jennifer Homans, ''Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet'' * Siddhartha Mukherjee, '' 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 Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, re ...

, ''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 ...

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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 for ...

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Eleanor Henderson Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introd ...

, ''Ten Thousand Saints'' * Christopher Hitchens, '' Arguably: Essays'' *

Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...

, '' Thinking, Fast and Slow'' *

Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high s ...

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11/22/63 ''11/22/63'' is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date). It is the 60th book published b ...

'' * Manning Marable, '' Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'' * Téa Obreht, ''

The Tiger's Wife ''The Tiger's Wife'' is the debut novel of Serbian-American writer Téa Obreht. It was published in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British imprint of Orion Books, and by Random House in America. Obreht won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for ...

'' * Karen Russell, '' 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, ''

The Passage of Power ''The Years of Lyndon Johnson'' is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A ...

'' * Dave Eggers, '' A Hologram for the King'' * Jim Holt, '' Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story'' * Hilary Mantel, ''

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 2 ...

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David Nasaw David Nasaw (born July 18, 1945) is an American author, biographer and historian who specializes in the cultural, social and business history of early 20th Century America. Nasaw is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of ...

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

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Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson may refer to: * Kate Atkinson (actress) (born 1972), Australian actress * Kate Atkinson (writer) Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jac ...

, '' 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 servi ...

, '' The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'' * Sonali Deraniyagala, '' Wave'' * Sheri Fink, '' Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital'' * Rachel Kushner, '' The Flamethrowers'' * Donna Tartt, '' 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, ''

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'' *

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, ''Euphoria'' *

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'' * Elizabeth Kolbert, '' 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. *

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, ''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 wit ...

'' * Rachel Cusk, ''

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'' * Elena Ferrante, '' The Story of the Lost Child: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: "Maturity, Old Age"'' * Helen Macdonald, '' H Is for Hawk'' *

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 yea ...

, '' 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. *

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

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, '' 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 '' ...

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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 I ...

'' * Han Kang, '' The Vegetarian'' * Karan Mahajan, '' The Association of Small Bombs'' * Hisham Matar, '' The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between'' * Jane Mayer, '' Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right'' * Ian McGuire, '' The North Water'' * Colson Whitehead, '' 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. James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) is an American legal scholar currently serving as the Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of '' Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America'', which ...

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'' * Jesmyn Ward, ''

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. *

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, '' American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment'' * Lisa Brennan-Jobs, '' Small Fry'' * David W. Blight, '' Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom'' * Esi Edugyan, ''

Washington Black ''Washington Black'' is the third novel by Canadian author Esi Edugyan. The novel was published in 2018 by HarperCollins in Canada and by Knopf Publishers internationally. A bildungsroman, the story follows the early life of George Washington "Wa ...

'' * Lisa Halliday, ''

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, '' The Great Believers'' * Tommy Orange, ''

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, '' Lullaby'' * Tara Westover, ''

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2020s

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, ''The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions'' *

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Studies

In 2010,

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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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Marketing Science Marketing science is a field that approaches marketing – the understanding of customer needs, and the development of approaches by which they might be fulfilled – predominantly through scientific methods, rather than through tools a ...

'', 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 ''The Stanford Daily'' is the student-run, independent daily newspaper serving Stanford University. ''The Daily'' is distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community of Palo Alto, California, United States. It has published since the U ...

'', 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 and Latino Americans who identify as white).

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Best Books of the Year and Notable Books

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