New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (The New York Times Book Review Awards)

The New York Times Book Review Awards

In December of each Year the New York Times Book Review publishes a list of their choices for the 10 best books of the year - culled from the books reviewed by them since the last year's list. Sometimes the number is 11 - in 2002 they could only come up with 9 and in 1973 only 3! I'm inclined to stick with the "10 Best" title for now. I'm finding many of the titles are Pulitzer, Man Booker and other prize winning works from actual juried competitions as well. It seems intended as a holiday shopping guide but seems like a good source to add personal reading lists when you find ones that catch your interest.

In December of each Year the New York Times Book Review publishes a list of their choices for the 10 best books of the year - culled from the books reviewed by them since the last year's list. Sometimes the number is 11 - in 2002 they could only come up with 9 and in 1973 only 3! I'm inclined to stick with the 10 Best title for now. \n\nI'm finding many of the titles are Pulitzer, Man Booker and other prize winning works from actual juried competitions as well. It seems intended as a holiday shopping guide but seems like a good source to add personal reading lists when you find ones that catch your interest.

Check all the winners of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year presented under The New York Times Book Review Awards since 1996 .

Jonathan Lethem Honored for : Chronic City
Jeannette Walls Honored for : Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Lorrie Moore Honored for : A Gate at the Stairs
Kate Walbert Honored for : A Short History of Women
David Finkel Honored for : The Good Soldiers
Liaquat Ahamed Honored for : Lords of France: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Maile Meloy Honored for : Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
Carol Sklenicka Honored for : Raymond Carver: A Writers Life
Mary Karr Honored for : LIT: A Memoir
Richard Holmes Honored for : The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Toni Morrison Honored for : A Mercy
Jane Mayer Honored for : The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Patrick French Honored for : The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Drew Gilpin Faust Honored for : This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Dexter Filkins Honored for : The Forever War
Roberto Bolaño Honored for : 2666
Jhumpa Lahiri Honored for : Unaccustomed Earth
Julian Barnes Honored for : Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Joseph O'Neill Honored for : Netherland
Steven Millhauser Honored for : Dangerous Laughter
Michael Thomas Honored for : Man Gone Down
Per Petterson Honored for : Out Stealing Horses
Roberto Bolaño Honored for : The Savage Detectives
Joshua Ferris Honored for : Then We Came to the End
Linda Colley Honored for : The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Mildred Armstrong Kalish Honored for : Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Denis Johnson Honored for : Tree of Smoke
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Honored for : Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Alex Ross Honored for : The Rest Is Noise
Gary Shteyngart Honored for : Absurdistan
Amy Hempel Honored for : The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Rory Stewart Honored for : The Places in Between
Danielle Trussoni Honored for : Falling through the Earth
Michael Pollan Honored for : The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Claire Messud Honored for : The Emperor's Children
Marisha Pessl Honored for : Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Lawrence Wright Honored for : The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Richard Ford Honored for : The Lay of the Land
Nathaniel Philbrick Honored for : Mayflower
Haruki Murakami Honored for : Kafka on the Shore
Curtis Sittenfeld Honored for : Prep
Joan Didion Honored for : The Year of Magical Thinking
Tony Judt Honored for : Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
George Packer Honored for : The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Jonathan Harr Honored for : The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Mary Gaitskill Honored for : Veronica
Zadie Smith Honored for : On Beauty
Ian McEwan Honored for : Saturday
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan Honored for : De Kooning: An American Master
Stephen Greenblatt Honored for : Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Philip Roth Honored for : The Plot Against America
Alice Munro Honored for : Runaway
Marilynne Robinson Honored for : Gilead
Orhan Pamuk Honored for : Snow
Colm Tóibín Honored for : The Master
David Hackett Fischer Honored for : Washington's Crossing
Ron Chernow Honored for : Alexander Hamilton
Ha Jin Honored for : War Trash
Bob Dylan Honored for : Chronicles: Volume One
William Taubman Honored for : Khrushchev
T. Coraghessan Boyle Honored for : Drop City
Caroline Alexander Honored for : The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Gabriel García Márquez Honored for : Living to Tell the Tale
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Honored for : Random Family
Edward P. Jones Honored for : The Known World
Claire Tomalin Honored for : Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Monica Ali Honored for : Brick Lane
Jonathan Lethem Honored for : The Fortress of Solitude
Margaret MacMillan Honored for : Paris 1919
Jeffrey Eugenides Honored for : Middlesex
Ian McEwan Honored for : Atonement
Miranda Carter Honored for : Anthony Blunt: His Lives
Lorna Sage Honored for : Bad Blood
William Kennedy Honored for : Roscoe
Timothy Ferris Honored for : Seeing in the Dark
Jonathan Franzen Honored for : The Corrections
W. G. Sebald Honored for : Austerlitz
Louis Menand Honored for : The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
David McCullough Honored for : John Adams
Colson Whitehead Honored for : John Henry Days
Alice Munro Honored for : Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Paula Fox Honored for : Borrowed Finery
Oliver Sacks Honored for : Uncle Tungsten
Peter Carey Honored for : True History of the Kelly Gang
Dave Eggers Honored for : A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Seamus Heaney Honored for : Beowulf
Tom Segev Honored for : One Palestine Complete
John Updike Honored for : Gertrude and Claudius
Frances FitzGerald Honored for : Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Zadie Smith Honored for : White Teeth
Jim Crace Honored for : Being Dead
Matt Ridley Honored for : Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters
Philip Roth Honored for : The Human Stain
Graham Robb Honored for : Rimbaud
Richard Posner Honored for : An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Richard Holmes Honored for : Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Jean Strouse Honored for : Morgan: American Financier
John Keegan Honored for : The First World War
E. Annie Proulx Honored for : Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Judith Thurman Honored for : Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Inga Clendinnen Honored for : Reading the Holocaust
Roddy Doyle Honored for : A Star Called Henry
Antonio Damasio Honored for : The Feeling of What Happens
Michael Frayn Honored for : Headlong
Lorrie Moore Honored for : Birds of America
Barbara Kingsolver Honored for : The Poisonwood Bible
Richard Fortey Honored for : Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Russell Banks Honored for : Cloudsplitter: A Novel
Alice Munro Honored for : The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
David Gates Honored for : Preston Falls
Ron Chernow Honored for : Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Philip Gourevitch Honored for : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Hilary Spurling Honored for : The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume One, 1869-1908
Richard Holbrooke Honored for : To End a War
Graham Robb Honored for : Victor Hugo: A Biography
Thomas Pynchon Honored for : Mason & Dixon
Philip Roth Honored for : American Pastoral
Penelope Fitzgerald Honored for : The Blue Flower
Pauline Maier Honored for : American Scripture
Jon Krakauer Honored for : Into Thin Air
John Updike Honored for : Toward the End of Time
Cynthia Ozick Honored for : The Puttermesser Papers
Adrian Desmond Honored for : Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest
Don DeLillo Honored for : Underworld
Timothy Ferris Honored for : The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
Hermione Lee Honored for : Virginia Woolf
Frank McCourt Honored for : Angela's Ashes
Salman Rushdie Honored for : The Moor's Last Sigh
David Quammen Honored for : The song of the dodo
Mavis Gallant Honored for : The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
William Trevor Honored for : After Rain
Cary Reich Honored for : The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
Alice Munro Honored for : Selected Stories
Jonathan Raban Honored for : Bad Land: An American Romance

New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

The New York Times Book Review Awards

Honored for : Chronic City

Honored for : Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Honored for : A Gate at the Stairs

Honored for : A Short History of Women

Honored for : The Good Soldiers

Honored for : Lords of France: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Honored for : Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It

Honored for : Raymond Carver: A Writers Life

Honored for : LIT: A Memoir

Honored for : The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Honored for : A Mercy

Honored for : The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Honored for : The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

Honored for : This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Honored for : The Forever War

Honored for : 2666

Honored for : Unaccustomed Earth

Honored for : Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Honored for : Netherland

Honored for : Dangerous Laughter

Honored for : Man Gone Down

Honored for : Out Stealing Horses

Honored for : The Savage Detectives

Honored for : Then We Came to the End

Honored for : The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh

Honored for : Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

Honored for : Tree of Smoke

Honored for : Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Honored for : The Rest Is Noise

Honored for : Absurdistan

Honored for : The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Honored for : The Places in Between

Honored for : Falling through the Earth

Honored for : The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Honored for : The Emperor's Children

Honored for : Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Honored for : The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Honored for : The Lay of the Land

Honored for : Mayflower

Honored for : Kafka on the Shore

Honored for : Prep

Honored for : The Year of Magical Thinking

Honored for : Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Honored for : The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Honored for : The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

Honored for : Veronica

Honored for : On Beauty

Honored for : Saturday

Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

Honored for : De Kooning: An American Master

Honored for : Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Honored for : The Plot Against America

Honored for : Runaway

Honored for : Gilead

Honored for : Snow

Honored for : The Master

Honored for : Washington's Crossing

Honored for : Alexander Hamilton

Honored for : War Trash

Honored for : Chronicles: Volume One

Honored for : Khrushchev

Honored for : Drop City

Honored for : The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

Honored for : Living to Tell the Tale

Honored for : Random Family

Honored for : The Known World

Honored for : Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Honored for : Brick Lane

Honored for : The Fortress of Solitude

Honored for : Paris 1919

Honored for : Middlesex

Honored for : Atonement

Honored for : Anthony Blunt: His Lives

Honored for : Bad Blood

Honored for : Roscoe