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‘Tis the season for Best Books of the Year lists, from Barnes & Noble’s overall #1 pick to the sprawling 384-book list from NPR. The New York Times list falls somewhere in the middle, with 100 fiction and nonfiction books selected by NYT staff.
As you might expect, there are a lot of literary fiction books represented, like Flesh by David Szalay and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai. But plenty of other genres make an appearance, including romance (August Lane by Regina Black), horror (The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones), fantasy (Katabasis by R.F. Kuang), and what The New York Times describes as “dazzlingly weird fiction” (Trip by Amie Barrodale).
You’ll find familiar titles here, like the bestselling Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins and Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, as well as the award-winning We Do Not Part by Han Kang. There are also books that have been on most of the other best books of the year lists, like One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
Mixed in are some more obscure picks, including What is Queer Food? by John Birdsall, The Colony by Annika Norlin, and Night Watch: Poems by Kevin Young.
You can find the full list at The New York Times.
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