100 Notable Books of the Year

The New York Times recently 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 edition to your home library!

Fiction & Poetry

• Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
  
• A Changed Man, Francine Prose
  
• Collected Poems, 1943 - 2004, Richard Wilbur
  
• Empire Rising, Thomas Kelly
  
• Envy, Kathryn Harrison
  
• Europe Central, William T. Vollmann
  
• Follies: New Stories, Ann Beattie
  
• Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
  
• Home Land, Sam Lipsyte
  
• The Hot Kid, Elmore Leonard

• How We Are Hungry: Stories, Dave Eggers
  
• In Case We're Separated, Alice Mattison
  
• Indecision, Benjamin Kunkel
  
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
  
• Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis
  
• Maps For Lost Lovers, Nadeem Aslam
  
• The March, E.L. Doctorow
  
• Memories of my Melancholy Whores, Gabriel García Márquez
  
• Migration: New & Selected Poems, W.S. Merwin
  
• Missing Mom, Joyce Carol Oates

• Mission to America, Walter Kirn
  
• Mother's Milk, Edward St. Aubyn
  
• Natural History: Poems, Dan Chiasson
  
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
  
• On Beauty, Zadie Smith
  
• Overlord: Poems, Jorie Graham
  
• The Painted Drum, Louise Erdich
  
• Please Don't Come Back From the Moon, Dean Bakopoulos
  
• Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

• Saturday, Ian McEwan
  
• The Sea, John Banville
  
• Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman
  
• Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
  
• Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
  
• Star Dust, Frank Bidart
  
• The Successor, Ismail Kadare
  
• Towelhead, Alicia Erian
  
• Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
  

Non-Fiction

• The Accidental Masterpiece, Michael Kimmelman
  
• Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace, Michael Goldfarb
  
• American Prometheus, Kai Bird
  
• Are Men Necessary?, Maureen Dowd
  
• Armageddon, Max Hastings
  
• The Assassins' Gate, George Packer
  
• The Beatles, Bob Spitz
  
• Becoming Justice Blackmun, Linda Greenhouse
  
• Beyond Glory, David Margolick
  
• Boss Tweed, Kenneth D. Ackerman

• Break, Blow, Burn, Camille Paglia
  
• Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild
  
• Collapse, Jared Diamond
  
• Conspiracy of Fools, Kurt Eichenwald
  
• De Kooning, Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
  
• Dream Boogie, Peter Guralnick
  
• Elia Kazan, Richard Schickel
  
• An End to Suffering, Pankaj Mishra
  
• 1491, Charles C. Mann
  
• Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt

• Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte
  
• The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
  
• A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff
  
• In Command of History, David Reynolds
  
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Damrosch
  
• John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Parker
  
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning,
  Jonathan Mahler
  
• The Letters of Robert Lowell, Saskia Hamilton
  
• Lincoln's Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shenk
  
• The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr

• Made in Detroit, Paul Clemens
  
• Mao, Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
  
• Mark Twain: A Life, Ron Powers
  
• Matisse the Master, Hilary Spurling
  
• Mirror to America,
  
• New Art City, Jed Perl
  
• Night Draws Near, Anthony Shadid
  
• Oh the Glory of it All, Sean Wilsey
  
• Omaha Blues, Joseph Lelyveld
  
• 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer

• The Orientalist, Tom Reiss
  
• Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal
  
• Postwar, Tony Judt
  
• The Prince of the City, Fred Siegel
  
• The Rise of American Democracy, Sean Wilentz
  
• The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
  
• 1776, David McCullough
  
• Spook, Mary Roach
  
• The Survivor, John F. Harris
  
• A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz

• Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
  
• The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
  
• Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette
  
• Tulia, Nate Blakeslee
  
• Vindication, Lyndall Gordon
  
• A War Like No Other, Victor Davis Hanson
  
• Warped Passages, Lisa Randall
  
• Without Apology, Leah Hager Cohen
  
• Wodehouse: A Life, Robert McCrum
  
• The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
  
• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion