New York Times Best Books of the Year

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The 10 best books of the year, as selected by the New York Times Book Review editors.

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WorkCategoryYear
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Fiction2023
Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal
Fiction2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Fiction2023
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Fiction2023
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Fiction2023
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
Nonfiction2023
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
Nonfiction2023
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
Nonfiction2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Nonfiction2023
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Nonfiction2023
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood
Nonfiction2020
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Fiction2018
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Fiction2018
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Fiction2018
There There by Tommy Orange
Fiction2018
Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
Fiction2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
Nonfiction2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Nonfiction2018
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Nonfiction2018
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
Nonfiction2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Nonfiction2018
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Fiction2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction2017
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Fiction2017
Autumn by Ali Smith
Fiction2017
Grant by Ron Chernow
Nonfiction2017
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Nonfiction2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Nonfiction2017
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
Nonfiction2017
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. Prum
Nonfiction2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2017
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
Fiction2016
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Fiction2016
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Fiction2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2016
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
Nonfiction2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction2016
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
Nonfiction2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
Nonfiction2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
Nonfiction2016
The North Water by Ian McGuire
2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Fiction2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
Fiction2015
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Fiction2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Fiction2015
The Door by Magda Szabó
Fiction2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
Nonfiction2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Nonfiction2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
Nonfiction2015
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad
2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Fiction2014
Euphoria by Lily King
Fiction2014
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Fiction2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Fiction2014
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
Fiction2014
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Nonfiction2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast
Nonfiction2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Nonfiction2014
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
Nonfiction2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence Wright
Nonfiction2014
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
2013
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
2013
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder
2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
2013
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
2013
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
2012
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
2012
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
2012
NW by Zadie Smith
2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
2012
Building Stories by Chris Ware
2012
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son by Ian Brown
2011
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
2011
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2011
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
2011
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
2011
11/22/63 by Stephen King
2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2011
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
2011
The New Yorker stories by Ann Beattie
2010
Room by Emma Donoghue
2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2010
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2010
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
2010
Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
2010
Selected Stories by William Trevor
2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
2010
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
2009
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
2009
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka
2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
2009
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
2009
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust
2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French
2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
2008
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
2007
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2007
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2007
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2007
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
2007
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
2007
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
2006
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
2006
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
2006
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni
2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2006
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2005
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
2005
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr
2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan
2005
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2005
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
2005
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
2005
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2005
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens
2005
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
2004
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
2004
War Trash by Ha Jin
2004
Runaway by Alice Munro
2004
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
2004
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
2004
The Master by Colm Tóibín
2004
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
2003
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
2003
Drop City by T. C. Boyle
2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2003
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
2003
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
2003
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2003
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
2002
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002
Seeing in the dark by Timothy Ferris
2002
Roscoe by William Kennedy
2002
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan
2002
Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage
2002
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2001
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2001
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2001
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
2001
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
2001
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
2001
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2001
Beowulf by Beowulf poet
Fiction2000
Being Dead by Jim Crace
2000
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
2000
Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
2000
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
2000
Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham Robb
2000
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
2000
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
2000
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
2000
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
1999
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1999
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio
1999
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
1999
Headlong by Michael Frayn
1999
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes
1999
The First World War by John Keegan
1999
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner
1999
Close Range by Annie Proulx
1999
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
1999
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
1998
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
1998
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard A. Fortey
1998
Preston Falls: A Novel by David Gates
1998
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
1998
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke
1998
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1998
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
1998
The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro
1998
Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb
1998
The Unknown Matisse by Hilary Spurling
1998
Underworld by Don DeLillo
1997
Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest by Adrian Desmond
1997
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris
1997
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
1997
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
1997
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier
1997
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
1997
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
1997
Toward the End of Time by John Updike
1997
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant
1996
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
1996
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
1996
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen
1996
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
1996
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller by Cary Reich
1996
After Rain: Stories by William Trevor
1996
The Information by Martin Amis
1995
Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown
1995
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986) by Anatoly Dobrynin
1995
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
1995
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
1995
Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
1995
Overcoming Law by Richard A. Posner
1995
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
1995
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1995
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry
1995
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1994
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by David Holloway
1994
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis
1994
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
1994
A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul
1994
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
1994
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
1994
Balzac: A Biography by Graham Robb
1994
Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas
1994
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
1994
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
1994
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
1993
Mazurka for Two Dead Men by Camilo José Cela
1993
The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick
1993
Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets by Lars Eighner
1993
Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant
1993
Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross
1993
The Island: Three Tales by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
1993
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
1993
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan
1993
Judge On Trial by Ivan Klima
1993
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
1993
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
1993
The Last Panda by George B. Schaller
1993
Collected Stories by William Trevor
1993
Regeneration by Pat Barker
1992
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin
1992
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
1992
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
1992
The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France by W. S. Merwin
1992
Jazz by Toni Morrison
1992
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1992
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
1992
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
1991
The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever
1991
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
1991
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory by Lawrence L. Langer
1991
The Truth About Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev
1991
Complete Collected Stories by V. S. Pritchett
1991
A Life of Picasso, Volume 1: 1881-1906 by John Richardson
1991
Mating by Norman Rush
1991
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
1991
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria by William Trevor
1991
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
1990
London Fields by Martin Amis
1990
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
1990
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd
1990
Possession by A. S. Byatt
1990
My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
1990
Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa by Robert Klitgaard
1990
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice Munro
1990
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1990
Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig O'Malley
1990
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
1990
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1990
Omeros by Derek Walcott
1990
Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence by Jeremy Wilson
1990
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
1989
If the River Was Whiskey by T. C. Boyle
1989
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
1989
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
1989
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
1989
Federico García Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson
1989
Harold Macmillan: Volume 1: 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne
1989
Harold Macmillan: Volume 2: 1957-1986 by Alistair Horne
1989
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1989
The Shawl: A Story and Novella by Cynthia Ozick
1989
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1989
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
1989
How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War by Donald Cameron Watt
1989
The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography by Ingmar Bergman
1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch
1988
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey
1988
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
1988
Libra by Don DeLillo
1988
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
1988
The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan
1988
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1988
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
1988
Bernard Shaw, Volume 1: 1856-1898; The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd
1988
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
1988
Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution by Leonard W. Levy
1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1988
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {unspecified Editions} by Milorad Pavić
1988
Arabesques by Anton Shammas
1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
1988
Molecules of the Mind by Jon Franklin
Nonfiction1987
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes
1987
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
1987
World's End by T. C. Boyle
1987
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
1987
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
1987
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987
The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne
1987
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1987
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
1987
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age by Simon Schama
1987
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard
1987
An Arrow in the Wall: Selected Poetry and Prose by Andrei Voznesensky
1987
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson
1987
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
1987
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
1987
The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami
1986
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1986
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown
1986
Black Venus by Angela Carter
1986
FDR: New York Years 1928-1933 by Kenneth S. Davis
1986
FDR: The New Deal Years 1933-1937 by Kenneth S. Davis
1986
Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid by William Finnegan
1986
Out of India: Selected Stories by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1986
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture by Michael Kammen
1986
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
1986
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
1986
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
1986
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad
1986
Whites by Norman Rush
1986
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
1986
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
1986
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 1: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky
1986
Roger's Version by John Updike
1986
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
1985
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
1985
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
1985
Footsteps: adventures of a romantic biographer by Richard Holmes
1985
House by Tracy Kidder
1985
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
1985
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
1985
All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran by Gary Sick
1985
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter Taylor
1985
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman
1985
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson
1984
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow
1984
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
1984
Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella by E. L. Doctorow
1984
Education of the Senses by Peter Gay
1984
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith
1984
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1984
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips
1984
The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience by William Shawcross
1984
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence
1984
Deadly gambits : the Reagan administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control by Strobe Talbott
1984
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
1984
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
1984
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig
1984
1984
Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver
1983
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
1983
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
1983
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1983
Attlee by Kenneth Harris
1983
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
1983
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
1983
Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
1983
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
1983
The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh
1983
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
1983
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr
1983
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
1983
The Burning House by Ann Beattie
1982
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
1982
Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1949-1953 by Robert J. Donovan
1982
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
1982
Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger
1982
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
1982
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
1982
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood by Kate Simon
1982
Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
1982
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman
1982
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
1982
Bech Is Back by John Updike
1982
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
1981
World Without End by Francine du Plessix Gray
1981
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition by James H. Jones
1981
Haydn : chronicle and works / Haydn : the years of 'The creation', 1796-1800 by H. C. Robbins Landon
1981
Haydn : the early years, 1732-1765 by H. C. Robbins Landon
1981
Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon
1981
Haydn in England 1791-1795 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon
1981
Haydn the Late Years, 1801-1809. (Haydn: Chronicles and Works, Volume 5) by H. C. Robbins Landon
1981
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
1981
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
1981
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1981
Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1981
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence
1981
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
1981
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
1981
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
1981
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1981
Falling in Place by Ann Beattie
1980
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell
1980
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
1980
Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow
1980
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
1980
Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan
1980
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
1980
The cost of good intentions : New York City and the liberal experiment, 1960-1975 by Charles R. Morris
1980
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak
1980
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century by Ian Watt
1980
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
1980
The White Album by Joan Didion
1979
King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein
1979
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Sally Fitzgerald
1979
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
1979
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson
1979
White House Years by Henry Kissinger
1979
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
1979
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1979
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
1979
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
1979
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
1979
The man who kept the secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA by Thomas Powers
1979
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
1979
Sideshow by William Shawcross
1979
The Maples Stories by John Updike
1979
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
1978
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
1978
E. M. Forster: A Life by P. N. Furbank
1978
Final Payments by Mary Gordon
1978
The Flounder by Günter Grass
1978
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne
1978
The Facts of Life by Maureen Howard
1978
Trotsky by Irving Howe
1978
The World According to Garp by John Irving
1978
Lying Low by Diane Johnson
1978
Stories by Doris Lessing
1978
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons
1978
The Coup by John Updike
1978
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews by Eudora Welty
1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills
1978
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas
1977
Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate
1977
Falconer by John Cheever
1977
Afterimages by Arlene Croce
1977
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties by Morris Dickstein
1977
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
1977
Every child's birthright: In defense of mothering by Selma H. Fraiberg
1977
Dispatches by Michael Herr
1977
Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys
1977
Day by Day by Robert Lowell
1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
1977
Coming into the Country by John McPhee
1977
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1977
India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul
1977
Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing by Richard Poirier
1977
The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev by V. S. Pritchett
1977
Staying On by Paul Scott
1977
On Photography by Susan Sontag
1977
Letters on literature and politics, 1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson
1977
Speedboat by Renata Adler
1976
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account by Saul Bellow
1976
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
1976
Women of Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by Ann Cornelisen
1976
Damnable Question: A Study of Anglo-Irish Relations by George Dangerfield
1976
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