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The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s
standout fiction and nonfiction.
To learn more about the books on the list and those the reviewers wanted to include, listen to a special edition of the NYTBR podcast.
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The Bee Sting: A Novel
Paul Murray - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative... |
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. * "A new and necessary American voice."... |
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Eastbound
Maylis de Kerangal - Archipelago
Format: Paperback
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In this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasons Perfect for fans of Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle and The Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesEastbound is both an adventure story and a duet... |
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The Fraud: A Novel
Zadie Smith - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and who deserves to be believedIt is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper... |
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North Woods: A Novel
Daniel Mason - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries - a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.. When two young lovers... |
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen's haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love,... |
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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
Kerry Howley - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Thrown, a wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America. Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections - a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work... |
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce. "Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page ... Captures the majesty... |
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple,... |
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy - told through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens - from a journalist of international renown. "Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista... |
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For even more recommendations, see the 100 Notable Books of 2023 at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html. Complimentary access to the NYT available from Norfolk Public LIbrary's eMagazines & Newspapers.
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