100 Notable Books of the Year

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!

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
  

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