The New York Times Notable Books of the YearNonfiction - Memoir

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
54 Works 44,089 Books 1,852 Reviews 4.2
The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


Links to the lists on the NYT website:
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Categories:
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)
Years:
All, 2022 (12), 2021 (14), 2020 (11), 2019 (9), , 2018 (8)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkYear
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Memoir
2022
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Memoir
2022
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
Memoir
2022
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
2022
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones
2022
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
2022
Stay True by Hua Hsu
2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
2022
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan by Randall Kenan
2022
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
2022
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers
2022
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
2022
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
Memoir
2021
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
Memoir
2021
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Memoir
2021
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
Memoir
2021
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Memoir
2021
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage by Eleanor Henderson
Memoir
2021
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Memoir
2021
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
Memoir
2021
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Memoir
2021
Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir by Christopher Sorrentino
Memoir
2021
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography by John Thompson
Memoir
2021
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
Memoir
2021
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
Memoir
2021
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Memoir
2021
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2020
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
2020
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
2020
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
2020
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
2020
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore
2020
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
2020
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson
2020
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
2020
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
2020
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
2019
In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith
2019
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
2019
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
2019
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
2019
Becoming by Michelle Obama
2019
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
2019
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
2019
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams
2019
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2018
In Pieces by Sally Field
2018
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey Gerald
2018
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham
2018
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
2018
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
2018
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L Moore
2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
2018

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