The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year
by Van
This Sunday the New York Times Book Review features their selection of the 100 Notable Books of the Year.
The Ann Arbor District Library has all of these books.
Click on read more for the Fiction & Poetry and the Nonfiction titles linked to the library catalog.
Fiction & Poetry
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
After This by Alice McDermott
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Averno by Louise Gluck
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Brookland by Emily Barton
Collected Poems, 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Everyman by Philip Roth
Forgetfulness by Ward Just
Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuane
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
The Inhabited World by David Long
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Read
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Stories of Mary Gordon by Mary Gordon
Strong is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Terrorist by John Updike
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
The Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
Nonfiction
The Afterlife by Donald Antrim
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing by Lee Server
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
Blood and Thunder: an Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
Blue Arabesque: a Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl
Clemente: the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
The Discomfort Zone: a Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Falling Through the Earth: a Memoir by Danielle Trussoni
Fiasco: the American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Flaubert: a Biography by Frederick Brown
Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
The Ghost Map: the Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: the Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich
Happiness: a History by Darrin M. McMahon
Heat: an Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Iran Awakening: a Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
James Tiptree, Jr.: the Double Life of Alice Sheldon by Julie Phillips
Jane Goodall: the Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
Kate: the Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann
Lee Miller: a Life by Carolyn Burke
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
The Lost: a Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Most Famous Man in America: the Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Oracle Bones: a Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Prisoners: a Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg
Programming the Universe: from the Big Bang to Quantum Computers by Seth Lloyd
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
Reading Like a Writer: a Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
Redemption: the Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent
State of Denial by Bob Woodward
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
Sweet and Low: a Family Story by Rich Cohen
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra
Things I Didn't Know: a Memoir by Robert Hughes
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
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