NYT 10 Best Books of the Year

The New York Times editors' annual 10 best books.

  1. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai #1
  2. Angel Down — Daniel Kraus #2
  3. The Director — Daniel Kehlmann #3
  4. A Marriage at Sea — Sophie Elmhirst #4
  5. There Is No Place for Us — Brian Goldstone #5
  6. Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy #6
  7. The Sisters — Jonas Hassen Khemiri #7
  8. Stone Yard Devotional — Charlotte Wood #8
  9. Mother Emanuel — Kevin Sack #9
  10. Wild Thing A Life of Paul Gauguin — Sue Prideaux #10
  11. All Fours — Miranda July #11
  12. Good Material — Dolly Alderton #12
  13. The Wide Wide Sea — Hampton Sides #13
  14. Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar #14
  15. I Heard Her Call My Name — Lucy Sante #15
  16. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here — Jonathan Blitzer #16
  17. Cold Crematorium — József Debreczeni #17
  18. You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue #18
  19. Fire Weather — John Vaillant #19
  20. The Fraud — Zadie Smith #20
  21. North Woods — Daniel Mason #21
  22. Master Slave Husband Wife — Ilyon Woo #22
  23. Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah #23
  24. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs — Kerry Howley #24
  25. Some People Need Killing — Patricia Evangelista #25
  26. An Immense World — Ed Yong #26
  27. Checkout 19 — Claire-Louise Bennett #27
  28. Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver #28
  29. The Candy House — Jennifer Egan #29
  30. We Don't Know Ourselves — Fintan O'Toole #30
  31. Under the Skin — Linda Villarosa #31
  32. Strangers to Ourselves — Rachel Aviv #32
  33. Trust — Hernán Díaz #33
  34. How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue #34
  35. On Juneteenth — Annette Gordon-Reed #35
  36. No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood #36
  37. Invisible Child — Andrea Elliott #37
  38. Red Comet — Heather Clark #38
  39. When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut #39
  40. The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett #40
  41. Uncanny Valley — Anna Wiener #41
  42. Hidden Valley Road — Robert Kolker #42
  43. Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell #43
  44. Deacon King Kong — James McBride #44
  45. A Promised Land — Barack Obama #45
  46. A Children's Bible — Lydia Millet #46
  47. Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar #47
  48. Shakespeare in a Divided America — James Shapiro #48
  49. The Topeka School — Ben Lerner #49
  50. Midnight in Chernobyl — Adam Higginbotham #50
  51. Lost Children Archive — Valeria Luiselli #51
  52. Disappearing Earth — Julia Phillips #52
  53. The Yellow House — Sarah M. Broom #53
  54. No Visible Bruises — Rachel Louise Snyder #54
  55. The Club — Leo Damrosch #55
  56. Night Boat to Tangier — Kevin Barry #56
  57. Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe #57
  58. Educated — Tara Westover #58
  59. The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai #59
  60. There There — Tommy Orange #60
  61. Small Fry — Lisa Brennan-Jobs #61
  62. How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan #62
  63. Washington Black — Esi Edugyan #63
  64. Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday #64
  65. American Prison — Shane Bauer #65
  66. Autumn — Ali Smith #66
  67. Exit West — Mohsin Hamid #67
  68. Grant — Ron Chernow #68
  69. Prairie Fires — Caroline Fraser #69
  70. Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward #70
  71. The Power — Naomi Alderman #71
  72. Priestdaddy — Patricia Lockwood #72
  73. Evicted — Matthew Desmond #73
  74. The North Water — Ian McGuire #74
  75. The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead #75
  76. Dark Money — Jane Mayer #76
  77. The Association of Small Bombs — Karan Mahajan #77
  78. The Return — Hisham Matar #78
  79. War and Turpentine — Stefan Hertmans #79
  80. In the Darkroom — Susan Faludi #80
  81. The Vegetarian — Han Kang #81
  82. H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald #82
  83. Outline — Rachel Cusk #83
  84. The Story of the Lost Child — Elena Ferrante #84
  85. The Sellout — Paul Beatty #85
  86. A Manual for Cleaning Women — Lucia Berlin #86
  87. The Invention of Nature — Andrea Wulf #87
  88. Empire of Cotton — Sven Beckert #88
  89. One of Us — Åsne Seierstad #89
  90. Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates #90
  91. All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr #91
  92. On Immunity — Eula Biss #92
  93. Thirteen Days in September — Lawrence Wright #93
  94. Redeployment — Phil Klay #94
  95. Dept. of Speculation — Jenny Offill #95
  96. Family Life — Akhil Sharma #96
  97. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? — Roz Chast #97
  98. Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #98
  99. Life After Life — Kate Atkinson #99
  100. The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt #100
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