San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
1,491 Works 1,801,610 Books 73,093 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Biography (6), Essay/Criticism (19), Fiction (598), Fiction/Poetry (108), Historical Fiction (3), History (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (16), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (539), Science Fiction (1), Short stories (19), No Category (151)
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (27), 2021 (15), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (97), 2015 (94), 2014 (100), 2013 (100), 2012 (99), 2011 (99), 2010 (99), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (128), 2006 (121), 2005 (128), 2004 (84), 2003 (64)
WorkCategoryYear
The Guest by Emma Cline
Fiction2023
The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma
Fiction2023
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Fiction2023
The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
Fiction2023
After World: A Novel by Debbie Urbanski
Fiction2023
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Fiction2023
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Fiction2023
Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
Fiction2023
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
Historical Fiction2023
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Science Fiction2023
Tomb Sweeping: Stories by Alexandra Chang
Short stories2023
Monica by Daniel Clowes
Short stories2023
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
Short stories2023
Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.) by Carol Roh Spaulding
Short stories2023
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
Essay/Criticism2022
Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Essay/Criticism2022
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sánchez
Essay/Criticism2022
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
Fiction2022
Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Fiction2022
Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad Listi
Fiction2022
A Woman of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Fiction2022
The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
Fiction2022
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
Fiction2022
Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra
Fiction2022
Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
Fiction2022
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Fiction2022
The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy
Fiction2022
Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins
Fiction2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Fiction2022
Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán
Fiction/Poetry2022
On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Historical Fiction2022
I'm Not Broken: A Memoir by Jesse Leon
Memoir2022
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
Memoir2022
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
Nonfiction2022
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald
Nonfiction2022
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Nonfiction2022
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose
Nonfiction2022
The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History by Michael Kauffmann
Nonfiction2022
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner
Nonfiction2022
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith
Nonfiction2022
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Short stories2022
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
Essay/Criticism2021
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
Fiction2021
How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada
Fiction2021
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Fiction2021
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Fiction2021
Preparatory notes for future masterpieces : a novel by Maceo Montoya
Fiction2021
The Archer by Shruti Swamy
Fiction2021
O Beautiful by Jung Yun
Fiction2021
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Historical Fiction2021
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Memoir2021
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson
Nonfiction2021
Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé
Nonfiction2021
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
Nonfiction2021
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Short stories2021
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
Short stories2021
Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
Fiction2018
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
Fiction2018
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
Fiction2018
There There by Tommy Orange
Fiction2018
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
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
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Nonfiction2018
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Fiction2017
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Fiction2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction2017
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
Fiction2017
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Fiction2017
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
Nonfiction2017
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
Nonfiction2017
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
Nonfiction2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Nonfiction2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Nonfiction2017
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
Fiction2016
Mortal Trash: Poems by Kim Addonizio
Fiction2016
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel
Fiction2016
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Fiction2016
For a Little While by Rick Bass
Fiction2016
Alice & Oliver: A Novel by Charles Bock
Fiction2016
The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2016
The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Fiction2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Fiction2016
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Fiction2016
The Girls by Emma Cline
Fiction2016
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Fiction2016
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
Fiction2016
Zero K by Don DeLillo
Fiction2016
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Fiction2016
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
Fiction2016
The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel
Fiction2016
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
Fiction2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2016
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fiction2016
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Fiction2016
You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine
Fiction2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Fiction2016
Monterey Bay by Lindsay Hatton
Fiction2016
Carousel Court: A Novel by Joe McGinniss Jr.
Fiction2016
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Fiction2016
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy
Fiction2016
My Struggle: Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction2016
High Dive by Jonathan Lee
Fiction2016
A Gambler's Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
Fiction2016
The Last Shift: Poems by Philip Levine
Fiction2016
Shelter in Place by Alexander Maksik
Fiction2016
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Fiction2016
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Fiction2016
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
Fiction2016
Hystopia by David Means
Fiction2016
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
Fiction2016
What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera
Fiction2016
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Fiction2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Fiction2016
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose
Fiction2016
The Jungle Around Us: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.) by Anne Raeff
Fiction2016
Losing It: A Novel by Emma Rathbone
Fiction2016
Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
Fiction2016
Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif
Fiction2016
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Fiction2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Fiction2016
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta
Fiction2016
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Fiction2016
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Fiction2016
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Fiction2016
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Fiction2016
Daredevils by Shawn Vestal
Fiction2016
Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Fiction2016
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Fiction2016
Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams
Fiction2016
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
Fiction2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
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
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Nonfiction2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks
Nonfiction2016
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
Nonfiction2016
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Nonfiction2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
Nonfiction2016
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War by Mark Danner
Nonfiction2016
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey
Nonfiction2016
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
Nonfiction2016
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
Nonfiction2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Nonfiction2016
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
Nonfiction2016
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed
Nonfiction2016
Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif
Nonfiction2016
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag
Nonfiction2016
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction by Mary Ellen Hannibal
Nonfiction2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 by Adam Hochschild
Nonfiction2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Nonfiction2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Nonfiction2016
Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore
Nonfiction2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
Nonfiction2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction2016
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
Nonfiction2016
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Joyce Carol Oates
Nonfiction2016
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
Nonfiction2016
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner
Nonfiction2016
We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time by Kara Platoni
Nonfiction2016
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict by Austin Reed
Nonfiction2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Nonfiction2016
When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey
Nonfiction2016
Shame and Wonder: Essays by David Searcy
Nonfiction2016
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran by Laura Secor
Nonfiction2016
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction2016
Born to Run: The Autobiography by Bruce Springsteen
Nonfiction2016
Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
Nonfiction2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Nonfiction2016
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction2016
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman
Nonfiction2016
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
Nonfiction2016
Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos
Fiction2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Fiction2015
There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories by Charles Baxter
Fiction2015
The State We're In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie
Fiction2015
The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2015
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction2015
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Fiction2015
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Fiction2015
The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
Fiction2015
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Fiction2015
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
Fiction2015
A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison
Fiction2015
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Fiction2015
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty by Amanda Filipacchi
Fiction2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Fiction2015
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Fiction2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
Fiction2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Fiction2015
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Fiction2015
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Fiction2015
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
Fiction2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2015
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
Fiction2015
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
Fiction2015
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Fiction2015
The Animals: A Novel by Christian Kiefer
Fiction2015
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Fiction2015
My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction2015
Call Me Home: A Novel by Megan Kruse
Fiction2015
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
Fiction2015
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Fiction2015
The Empire of the Senses: A Novel by Alexis Landau
Fiction2015
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Fiction2015
Let Me Explain You by Annie Liontas
Fiction2015
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Fiction2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Fiction2015
Finale by Thomas Mallon
Fiction2015
Crow Fair: Stories by Thomas McGuane
Fiction2015
Voices in the Night: Stories by Steven Millhauser
Fiction2015
Slade House by David Mitchell
Fiction2015
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Fiction2015
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Fiction2015
A Master Plan for Rescue: A Novel by Janis Cooke Newman
Fiction2015
Death by Water by Kenzaburō Ōe
Fiction2015
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Fiction2015
The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer
Fiction2015
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
Fiction2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
Fiction2015
Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
Fiction2015
The Whites by Richard Price
Fiction2015
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Fiction2015
Lost Canyon by Nina Revoyr
Fiction2015
Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Fiction2015
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2015
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Fiction2015
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
Fiction2015
Disgruntled by Asali Solomon
Fiction2015
Mendocino Fire: Stories by Elizabeth Tallent
Fiction2015
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
Fiction2015
Dragonfish by Vu Tran
Fiction2015
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
Fiction2015
The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert
Fiction2015
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Fiction2015
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
Fiction2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction2015
Mislaid by Nell Zink
Fiction2015
When the sick rule the world by Dodie Bellamy
Nonfiction2015
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
Nonfiction2015
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn
Nonfiction2015
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello
Nonfiction2015
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
Nonfiction2015
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen
Nonfiction2015
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman by Greg Grandin
Nonfiction2015
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
Nonfiction2015
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
Nonfiction2015
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel
Nonfiction2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
Nonfiction2015
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Nonfiction2015
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Nonfiction2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Nonfiction2015
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
Nonfiction2015
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
Nonfiction2015
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves
Nonfiction2015
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
Nonfiction2015
The Other Paris by Lucy Sante
Nonfiction2015
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Nonfiction2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Nonfiction2015
M Train by Patti Smith
Nonfiction2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith
Nonfiction2015
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Nonfiction2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3 by Mark Twain
Nonfiction2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
Nonfiction2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
Nonfiction2015
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino
Nonfiction2015
The Palace of Illusions: Stories by Kim Addonizio
Fiction2014
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Fiction2014
Song of the Shank: A Novel by Jeffery Renard Allen
Fiction2014
The Zone of Interest: A novel by Martin Amis
Fiction2014
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol
Fiction2014
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
Fiction2014
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
Fiction2014
Three Short Novels: The Son, The Lights of Earth, and The Conference of Victims by Gina Berriault
Fiction2014
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
Fiction2014
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Fiction2014
Man V. Nature: Stories by Diane Cook
Fiction2014
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
Fiction2014
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Fiction2014
Perfidia by James Ellroy
Fiction2014
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
Fiction2014
A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
Fiction2014
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
Fiction2014
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Fiction2014
The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Fiction2014
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Fiction2014
The White Van by Patrick Hoffman
Fiction2014
Motherland by Maria Hummel
Fiction2014
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
Fiction2014
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones
Fiction2014
F by Daniel Kehlmann
Fiction2014
My Struggle: Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction2014
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Fiction2014
Famous Writers I Have Known: A Novel by James Magnuson
Fiction2014
The Year She Left Us by Kathryn Ma
Fiction2014
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary Mantel
Fiction2014
The Other Language by Francesca Marciano
Fiction2014
Goodhouse: A Novel by Peyton Marshall
Fiction2014
Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
Fiction2014
Snow in May: Stories by Kseniya Melnik
Fiction2014
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Fiction2014
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Fiction2014
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
Fiction2014
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 by Alice Munro
Fiction2014
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Fiction2014
Funny Once: Stories by Antonya Nelson
Fiction2014
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Fiction2014
Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen
Fiction2014
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Fiction2014
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
Fiction2014
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Fiction2014
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Fiction2014
Orfeo by Richard Powers
Fiction2014
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel by Francine Prose
Fiction2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Fiction2014
Your Face in Mine: A Novel by Jess Row
Fiction2014
Skylight by José Saramago
Fiction2014
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Fiction2014
The End of the Book: A Novel (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by Porter Shreve
Fiction2014
Casebook by Mona Simpson
Fiction2014
Starting Over: Stories by Elizabeth Spencer
Fiction2014
Love Me Back: A Novel by Merritt Tierce
Fiction2014
The Visionist by Rachel Urquhart
Fiction2014
Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman
Fiction2014
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Fiction2014
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Fiction2014
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy
Nonfiction2014
Updike by Adam Begley
Nonfiction2014
The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham
Nonfiction2014
Epilogue: A Memoir by Will Boast
Nonfiction2014
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild by Novella Carpenter
Nonfiction2014
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra
Nonfiction2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast
Nonfiction2014
E. E. Cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever
Nonfiction2014
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
Nonfiction2014
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
Nonfiction2014
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
Nonfiction2014
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Nonfiction2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Nonfiction2014
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Nonfiction2014
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Mexico City Chronicles) by Francisco Goldman
Nonfiction2014
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold
Nonfiction2014
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein
Nonfiction2014
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
Nonfiction2014
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Nonfiction2014
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir by Artis Henderson
Nonfiction2014
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs
Nonfiction2014
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
Nonfiction2014
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
Nonfiction2014
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
Nonfiction2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
Nonfiction2014
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
Nonfiction2014
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Nonfiction2014
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
Nonfiction2014
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
Nonfiction2014
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Nonfiction2014
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger
Nonfiction2014
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Nonfiction2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel
Nonfiction2014
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
Nonfiction2014
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel
Nonfiction2014
Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction by Gabrielle Selz
Nonfiction2014
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
Nonfiction2014
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
Nonfiction2014
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature by Ben Tarnoff
Nonfiction2014
Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter by Maria Venegas
Nonfiction2014
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction/Poetry2013
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
Fiction/Poetry2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Fiction/Poetry2013
A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ramona Ausubel
Fiction/Poetry2013
Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
Fiction/Poetry2013
Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash
Fiction/Poetry2013
Memories of a Marriage by Louis Begley
Fiction/Poetry2013
T C Boyle Stories II by T.C. Boyle
Fiction/Poetry2013
Belmont: Poems by Stephen Burt
Fiction/Poetry2013
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter
Fiction/Poetry2013
Amor and Psycho: Stories by Carolyn Cooke
Fiction/Poetry2013
One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin
Fiction/Poetry2013
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Fiction/Poetry2013
Pacific by Tom Drury
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
Fiction/Poetry2013
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Fiction/Poetry2013
Schroder by Amity Gaige
Fiction/Poetry2013
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction/Poetry2013
Enon by Paul Harding
Fiction/Poetry2013
Brown Dog: Novellas by Jim Harrison
Fiction/Poetry2013
Benediction by Kent Haruf
Fiction/Poetry2013
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Hotel Oneira: Poems by August Kleinzahler
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction/Poetry2013
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Fun Parts: Stories by Sam Lipsyte
Fiction/Poetry2013
Rage Is Back: A Novel by Adam Mansbach
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
Fiction/Poetry2013
A Brief History of Yes by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Fiction/Poetry2013
Someone by Alice McDermott
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Son by Philipp Meyer
Fiction/Poetry2013
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Peter Orner
Fiction/Poetry2013
I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro
Fiction/Poetry2013
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Fiction/Poetry2013
All That Is by James Salter
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Translator: A Novel by Nina Schuyler
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
Fiction/Poetry2013
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
Fiction/Poetry2013
Spectacle: Stories by Susan Steinberg
Fiction/Poetry2013
Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy
Fiction/Poetry2013
Goat Mountain: A Novel by David Vann
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Fiction/Poetry2013
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Fiction/Poetry2013
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction/Poetry2013
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott
Nonfiction2013
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Nonfiction2013
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson by Blake Bailey
Nonfiction2013
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball
Nonfiction2013
Gun Guys: A Road Trip by Dan Baum
Nonfiction2013
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Mary Beard
Nonfiction2013
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butler
Nonfiction2013
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado
Nonfiction2013
Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu by Monique Brinson Demery
Nonfiction2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Nonfiction2013
Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace by Beverly Donofrio
Nonfiction2013
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki
Nonfiction2013
Pink Sari Revolution by Amana Fontanella-Khan
Nonfiction2013
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything by Rose George
Nonfiction2013
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Charles Glass
Nonfiction2013
National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism (Open Media) by Melvin A. Goodman
Nonfiction2013
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
Nonfiction2013
Mother Daughter Me: A Memoir by Katie Hafner
Nonfiction2013
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey
Nonfiction2013
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
Nonfiction2013
The Book of My Lives {original edition} by Aleksandar Hemon
Nonfiction2013
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA by Scott C. Johnson
Nonfiction2013
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco by Gary Kamiya
Nonfiction2013
The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner
Nonfiction2013
Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor
Nonfiction2013
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Nonfiction2013
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Nonfiction2013
Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere by Lucas Mann
Nonfiction2013
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick
Nonfiction2013
Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre by Ray Monk
Nonfiction2013
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem
Nonfiction2013
Napalm: An American Biography by Robert M. Neer
Nonfiction2013
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
Nonfiction2013
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora by Emily Raboteau
Nonfiction2013
The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp
Nonfiction2013
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Nonfiction2013
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez
Nonfiction2013
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama by Joe Sacco
Nonfiction2013
My Foreign Cities: A Memoir by Elizabeth Scarboro
Nonfiction2013
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction2013
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas by Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction2013
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah Solomon
Nonfiction2013
She Matters: A Life in Friendships by Susanna Sonnenberg
Nonfiction2013
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg
Nonfiction2013
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout
Nonfiction2013
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley by Neal Thompson
Nonfiction2013
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
Nonfiction2013
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 2 by Mark Twain
Nonfiction2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz
Nonfiction2013
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu
Nonfiction2013
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
Fiction/Poetry2012
True Believers by Kurt Andersen
Fiction/Poetry2012
No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel
Fiction/Poetry2012
In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes
Fiction/Poetry2012
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Fiction/Poetry2012
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Fiction/Poetry2012
San Miguel by T.C. Boyle
Fiction/Poetry2012
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Fiction/Poetry2012
Stay Awake by Dan Chaon
Fiction/Poetry2012
Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung
Fiction/Poetry2012
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Fiction/Poetry2012
Perla by Carolina De Robertis
Fiction/Poetry2012
Astray by Emma Donoghue
Fiction/Poetry2012
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Fiction/Poetry2012
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Fiction/Poetry2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Fiction/Poetry2012
Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank
Fiction/Poetry2012
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Fiction/Poetry2012
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
Fiction/Poetry2012
Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston
Fiction/Poetry2012
A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
Fiction/Poetry2012
In One Person by John Irving
Fiction/Poetry2012
Aerogrammes: and Other Stories by Tania James
Fiction/Poetry2012
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Fiction/Poetry2012
Hold It 'Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson
Fiction/Poetry2012
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
Fiction/Poetry2012
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
Fiction/Poetry2012
Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura
Fiction/Poetry2012
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
Fiction/Poetry2012
Capital by John Lanchester
Fiction/Poetry2012
Drifting House by Krys Lee
Fiction/Poetry2012
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine
Fiction/Poetry2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Fiction/Poetry2012

Tags

20th century(3,864) 21st century(7,117) Afghanistan(5,577) American(5,590) American history(6,896) American literature(6,000) audio(3,512) audiobook(6,158) autobiography(4,159) biography(18,520) book club(4,594) contemporary(3,982) contemporary fiction(5,166) crime(3,774) ebook(8,889) England(5,655) family(7,612) fantasy(7,940) fiction(129,945) first edition(3,577) food(4,199) friendship(3,525) goodreads(4,791) graphic novel(5,625) historical(4,045) historical fiction(18,145) history(35,283) humor(4,436) Kindle(8,685) library(4,263) literary fiction(5,522) literature(10,545) memoir(14,316) mystery(7,580) non-fiction(50,123) novel(19,182) own(6,178) politics(6,395) read(16,551) Roman(3,533) science(7,009) science fiction(4,550) short stories(9,801) signed(4,222) to-read(127,940) unread(8,229) usa(7,611) war(4,694) wishlist(3,784) wwii(6,705)

Top Members

alo1224 (815 works), RLNunezKPL (691), emaestra (662), mffowler (622), e-zReader (585), davidabrams (552), KelMunger (538), bookmountain (486), kamintra (481), Rivaton (444), ltcl (434), dablackwood (427), ShanLand (396), KrisR (390), alaskabookworm (389), pdebolt (388), IamAleem (387), Bookish59 (383), sangreal (368), Chatterbox (355), benitastrnad (352), Olivert12000 (348), buriedinprint (346), GaylaBassham (340), PaulCranswick (340), DagoLA (333), PeskyLibrary (331), SoschaF (330), gayla.bassham (328), richorlin (328), Steve_Walker (328), SWade0126 (328), framji (324), RealLifeReading (323), hivetrick (322), jasbro (320), katiekrug (318), elkiedee (317), Markober (307), johnpkane (306), MARizzo72 (306), Citizenjoyce (305), HarvReviewer (305), cerievans1 (303), wesmrlnd (303), dawnlovesbooks (302), aabdelrahmanm (300), Serrana (300), Larou (299), fledglingphoenix (297), JVermillion (289), Keelz09 (288), gbelik (287), Connie-D (286), cctesttc1 (283), claire.rivers (279), augustgarage (278), Dureo (277), Alsek (273), pjpfodl (273), ThufirHawat (272), narbgr01 (270), jeaniemonstra (267), TheBookJunky (267), Caroline_McElwee (266), edparks (266), gwendolyndawson (266), Himalmitra (266), WestBranch (266), Whisper1 (265), erohwedd (263), macphear (261), kent23124 (260), GrettelTBR (258), alcottacre (256), whitreidtan (256), kylerhea (254), newyorklit (253), rpeckham (253), uscer (253), js31550 (251), laurenbufferd (251), charl08 (250), eandino2012 (250), kidzdoc (250), bookishbill (249), arubabookwoman (245), PaperboundPeregrine (245), BLBera (244), wm3395 (244), AlainCipit (241), angstrat (241), Canaanlibrary (241), Kaethe (241), megansbooklist (241), Dyrfinna (240), rlhazelwood (240), lacenaire (238), reluctantm (238), lscan2 (237), nicoelston (237), Devlindusty (236), reelbigschmidt (236), MWise (235), bookjones (233), linlef (232), jgtarwater (231), agmlll (230), DebbyeC (230), RidgewayGirl (229), jphamilton (228), Smiler69 (228), msf59 (227), JRsLibrary (225), bridgitshearth (223), Castlelass (223), cabegley (222), firstfloor1 (220), nancyewhite (220), RuthanneDVogel (220), thewordygecko (220), HeatherMoss (219), LindaEdwards (219), lulaa (218), mpultroon (218), Dan_Park (216), FlaglerBeachLibrary (216), HadriantheBlind (216), NafizaBMC (216), parasolofdoom (216), SlateLibrary (216), weird_O (216), Foulkeways (214), GeigerLibrary (214), kurtau (214), LadyDita (214), BookBully (213), kirjen (213), southernbooklady (213), bhowell (212), akerr (211), SleepySheep (211), Teresa40 (211), nate48281 (210), Robert_Musil (209), runningbeardbooks (209), 5srpl5 (208), iluvvideo (208), llibresantjoan (207), Phyllis.Mann (207), TerryWeyna (207), tootstorm (207), michaelg16 (206), superspytaiko (206), dpeace (205), librookian (205), lycaenidae (205), sethstern (205), tstan (204), badube (203), LegalBizzle (203), phoebekw (203), georgebexley (202), jonmower (202)