The New York Times Notable Books of the Year1982

Given by The New York Times Book Review

Other Names: The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of Noteworthy Titles, The New York Times Book Review's Books for Christmas (1933-1941), The New York Times Book Review's Christmas Checklist (1947-1948), The New York Times Book Review's A Christmas Guide for Readers (1949 - 1968), The New York Times Book Review's Other Outstanding Books of the Year (1969), The New York Times Book Review's A Selected List From Books of the Year (1970), The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of the Best Books of the Year (1978-1979), A New York Times Notable Book
28 Works 6,916 Books 101 Reviews ½ 3.9
The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


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All, American Scene (36), Art (13), Art & Architecture (2), Art, Music & Popular Culture (6), Arts, Drama, Music (8), Autobiography & Biography (75), Belles Lettres (3), Biography (13), Children's Books (8), Crime (1), Current Affairs & Social Comment (10), Education (4), Essays & Criticism (17), Essays and Belles-Lettres (1), Essays, Letters & Criticism (5), Fiction (336), Fiction & Poetry (402), Fiction - Comics/Graphics (2), Fiction - Poetry (1), Fiction - Stories (16), Fiction - Thrillers (5), Fiction/Poetry (53), History (5), Humor (2), Music (1), Nonfiction (602), Nonfiction - Biography (2), Nonfiction - Biography - Current Affairs (1), Nonfiction - Biography - History (4), Nonfiction - Biography - Sports (2), Nonfiction - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Current Affairs (8), Nonfiction - Essays (4), Nonfiction - Foreign Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History (28), Nonfiction - History - Current Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History - Memoir (1), Nonfiction - History - Sports (1), Nonfiction - Memoir (54), Nonfiction - Memoir - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Science (10), Nonfiction - Science - History (1), Nonfiction - Sociology (1), Nonfiction - Sociology - Current Affairs (1), Poetry (10), Politics (1), Religion (18), Science & Social Science (1), Science Fiction (1), Thriller (1), Travel, Adventure (2), No Category (197)
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All, 2023 (100), 2022 (100), 2021 (100), 2020 (100), 2019 (100), 2018 (100), 2017 (100), 2016 (100), 2015 (49), 2014 (21), 2013 (2), 2012 (100), 2011 (6), 2010 (100), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (100), 2006 (99), 2005 (2), 2004 (4), 2003 (6), 2002 (4), 2001 (4), 2000 (5), 1999 (1), 1998 (7), 1997 (4), 1996 (18), 1995 (2), 1994 (8), 1993 (3), 1992 (5), 1991 (4), 1989 (13), 1988 (12), 1987 (25), 1986 (1), 1982 (28), 1981 (2), 1979 (1), 1977 (1), 1975 (9), 1972 (10), 1971 (66), 1970 (2), 1969 (2), 1968 (1), 1962 (3), 1961 (7), 1960 (2), 1959 (3), 1957 (70), 1955 (14), 1951 (35), 1949 (1), 1948 (1), 1947 (59), 1946 (1), 1943 (1), 1942 (1), 1939 (1), 1933 (2)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkCategoryYear
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs by George W. Ball
Autobiography & Biography1982
The Chosen Instrument: Pan Am, Juan Trippe, The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur by Marylin Bender
Autobiography & Biography1982
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days by Frederick Buechner
Autobiography & Biography1982
The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson by Ronnie Dugger
Autobiography & Biography1982
The Life of John Berryman by John Haffenden
Autobiography & Biography1982
Dreams Die Hard: Three Men's Journey Through the Sixties by David Harris
Autobiography & Biography1982
Rickover: Controversy and Genius: A Biography by Norman Polmar
Autobiography & Biography1982
Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic by Edward Rivera
Autobiography & Biography1982
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
Autobiography & Biography1982
Frederic Remington by Peggy Samuels
Autobiography & Biography1982
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4, 1931-1935 by Virginia Woolf
Autobiography & Biography1982
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
Children's Books1982
Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven by Margot Zemach
Children's Books1982
The Manuscript Murders by Roy Harley Lewis
Crime1982
Labyrinth by Taylor Branch
Current Affairs & Social Comment1982
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street by David McClintick
Current Affairs & Social Comment1982
American Journey: Traveling With Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America by Richard Reeves
Current Affairs & Social Comment1982
Invisible Bankers by Andrew Tobias
Current Affairs & Social Comment1982
Going to The Dance by Arlene Croce
Essays & Criticism1982
The Fashionable Mind by Kennedy Fraser
Essays & Criticism1982
The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Robert Giroux
Essays & Criticism1982
Man Bites Man: Two Decades of Satiric Art by Steven Heller
Essays & Criticism1982
19 Purchase Street by Gerald A. Browne
Fiction1982
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Fiction1982
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner
Fiction1982
Hearts and Minds : The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan by Harry S. Ashmore
History1982
Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen C. Schlesinger
History1982
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
Science & Social Science1982

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