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The New York Times has released the top 100 Notable Books of the Year based on books reviewed throughout this past year. Any one of these titles would make a nice addition to your home library!
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Fiction
- Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
- Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
- After This, Alice McDermott
- Alentejo Blue, Monica Ali
- All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones
- Apex Hides the Hurt, Colson Whitehead
- Arthur and George, Julian Barnes
- Averno, Louise Glück
- Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala
- Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
- Brookland, Emily Barton
- Collected Poems, 1947-1997, Allen Ginsberg
- The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
- The Dead Fish Museum, Charles D'Ambrosio
- Digging to America, Anne Tyler
- The Dissident, Nell Freudenberger
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Olga Grushin
- Eat the Document, Dana Spiotta
- The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
- The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud
- Everyman, Philip Roth
- Forgetfulness, Ward Just
- Gallatin Canyon: Stories, Thomas McGuane
- Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury
- Golden Country, Jennifer Gilmore
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- High Lonesome, Joyce Carol Oates
- The Inhabited World, David Long
- The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
- Intuition, Allegra Goodman
- The Keep, Jennifer Egan
- Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolaño
- The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford
- Lisey's Story, Stephen King
- New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006, Ishmael Reed
- Old Filth, Jane Gardam
- One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
- Only Revolutions, Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- Skinner's Drift, Lisa Fugard
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
- The Stories of Mary Gordon, Mary Gordon
- Strong is Your Hold, Galway Kinnell
- Suite Francaise, Irčne Némirovsky
- Terrorist, John Updike
- The Translator, Leila Aboulela
- Twilight of the Superheroes, Deborah Eisenberg
- The Uses of Enchantment, Heidi Julavits
- A Woman in Jerusalem, A. B. Yehoshua
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Non-Fiction
- The Afterlife, Donald Antrim
- American at the Crossroads, Francis Fukuyama
- Andrew Carnegie, David Nasaw
- At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, Taylor Branch
- Ava Gardner, Lee Server
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
- Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Hampton Sides
- Blue Arabesque, Patricia Hampl
- Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, David Maraniss
- The Courtier and the Heretic, Matthew Stewart
- Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, David Foster Wallace
- The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History, Jonathan Franzman
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Falling Though the Earth: A Memoir, Danielle Trussoni
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas E. Ricks
- Field Notes From a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Flaubert: A Biography, Frederick Brown
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- The Ghost Map, Stephen Johnson
- The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley
- The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Frank Rich
- Happiness: A History, Darrin M. McMahon
- Heat, Bill Buford
- Iran Awakening, Shirin Ebadi
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips
- Jane Goodall, Dale Peterson
- Kate: The Woman who was Hepburn, William J. Mann
- Lee Miller: A Life, Carolyn Burke
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
- Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Debby Applegate
- The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
- Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present, Peter Hessler
- The Places In Between, Rory Stewart
- Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, Jeffrey Goldberg
- Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd
- Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, Caroline Weber
- Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
- Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, Nicholas Lemann
- Self-Made Man, Norah Vincent
- State of Denial, Bob Woodward
- Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz
- Sweet and Low, Rich Cohen
- Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra
- Things I Didn't Know, Robert Hughes
- Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
- The United States of Arugula, David Kamp
- The War of the World, Niall Ferguson
- The Worst Hard Time, Timonthy Egan
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