The New York Times Notable Books of the YearFiction & Poetry2017

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
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The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


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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 (55), 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, 2017 (50), 2016 (49), 2013 (1), 2012 (53), 2011 (3), 2010 (48), 2009 (45), 2008 (48), 2007 (50), 2006 (48), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (1)
WorkYear
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
2017
Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
2017
The Power by Naomi Alderman
2017
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
2017
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
2017
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
2017
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
2017
Transit by Rachel Cusk
2017
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
2017
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
2017
American War by Omar El Akkad
2017
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
2017
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
2017
The Dinner Party: Stories by Joshua Ferris
2017
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
2017
Fast: Poems by Jorie Graham
2017
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2017
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
2017
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
2017
Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley
2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2017
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
2017
Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
2017
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
2017
Who is Rich? by Matthew Klam
2017
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
2017
Giving Godhead by Dylan Krieger
2017
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
2017
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
2017
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
2017
WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier
2017
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
2017
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
2017
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
2017
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
2017
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
2017
New People by Danzy Senna
2017
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
2017
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
2017
Autumn by Ali Smith
2017
Ties by Domenico Starnone
2017
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
2017
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2017
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
2017
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
2017
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
2017

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